For all your real car questions, there&rsquo;s the &lsquo;Which Car?&rsquo; section on this page, but what about your completely unreal fantasies? Say you wanted to drive a completely modded Ford Mustang on a race track? Well, for that and other driving related fantasies, we&rsquo;ve got for you a few of the top driving games available in stores now.

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When she was asked at the Jaipur Literature Festival why she had not married, Oprah Winfrey responded by saying she &ldquo;wasn&rsquo;t the marrying kind&rdquo; and that &ldquo;marriage called for an element of conformity that she didn&rsquo;t think she possessed&rdquo;. (Of course she added a small joke for the benefit of the largely Indian audience when she faux-complained &ldquo;no one was arranging any marriages&rdquo; for her, and the crowd &mdash; which consisted of that slice of India that does not have marriages arranged for it &mdash; laughed politely at the in-joke).

Knot an issue

The nominations for the 2012 Academy Awards have been announced. Sound engineer Resul Pookutty of Slumdog Millionaire remembers his big night - including all the dos and don&rsquo;ts.

'Can't sell the Oscar'

They might not be able to walk, but these Bharatanatyam dancers sure can set the stage on fire.

Dancing wheels

I plan to buy a hatchback in the range of Rs 6 lakh to 7 lakh. My current usage will be about 8,000 km a year. I am over 6 ft 3 inches tall and am considering the Maruti Suzuki Swift.

Hatch me if you can

When we think of master-classes in film acting, we usually envision performers firing sharply written lines at each other in intense dramatic confrontations. Or scenes that have little dialogue but where the silences are soaked in meaning; where each pause, each glance, is somehow significant; where it&rsquo;s all about understatement. For a good sense of what is commonly thought of as a performance highlight, look at the short clips chosen when acting nominations are read out at the Oscars.

Putting the 'act' in action

The Aakash, called the world&rsquo;s cheapest tablet, has faced a barrage of recent criticism. Reviewers and others say it is not good enough, but the few who have used it are not so sure. Is it a washout?.

Broken promise?

A cricketer once mentioned that playing in front of an empty crowd is probably one of the worst feelings as a player. No support from fans or indifference can lead to a drop in the performance of any athlete.

Games they play

The French capital has a well-established, if rough-edged Little India. Elaine Sciolino takes a walk &mdash; and a look, sip and taste.

Chai in Paris

Wine quality is a contentious and controversial subject as every wine maker tends to think that his (or her) wine is the best, and will rarely accept a dissenting voice on the matter.

Different, not inferior

Levon Aronyan leads the Tata Steel's A group with 7.5 points after 10 rounds. The Armenian GM has a 2944 tournament performance rating. He is followed by Vasily Ivanchuk (6.5), who has moved up in unobtrusive fashion. World no:1 Magnus Carlsen shares third- fourth with Teimour Radjabov (both 6). Carlsen has been pegged back by a loss versus Karjakin.

Chess (#988)

Ramachandra Reddy, 30, owns five acres of arable land in Vatti Meenapally, a hamlet of about 200 households in the Rangareddy district of Andhra Pradesh. The only source of income for his family of six is the farm. In 2010, he had invested Rs 100,000 in cotton and vegetable crops, and made Rs 150,000. In 2011 he invested a similar amount but the returns were bad. The long dry spell played havoc with the cotton and maize crops, while vegetable prices fell sharply.

Greener pastures?

The optimistic attitude of the youth towards all problems in life is beautifully captured in 7Up&rsquo;s new campaign. The campaign is part of the brand&rsquo;s repositioning exercise that includes a new tagline &lsquo;Dil bole I feel up&rsquo;, a brand new logo and packaging. The new logo retains the same colour scheme as the earlier one; however, the font is different, and aims to be more youthful, progressive and confident, says PepsiCo India.

PepsiCo India: Upping the optimism quotient

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The organised food kiosk market in India at present is about Rs 800 crore and is expected to double to Rs 1,600 crore by 2015. This growth is already visible with more and more brands and entrepreneurs opting for this model in the face of rising rentals and land costs.

KIT: Food kiosk market in India

    The initial design of this vehicle had two soft doors with vinyl windows, a cloth roof and a metal bar as a safety measure. The manufacturer concluded that people would not want a &lsquo;half a car&rsquo; and therefore shelved it for something better. Name the company and the brand.

The Strategist Quiz (#238)

    An engineer from Siemens India was challenged by his wife to repair an imported electrical appliance manufactured by Braun of Germany. Instead of doing so he designed a new one and founded his own brand. Name the person and the brand.

Answers to last week's quiz (#237)

The timing couldn&rsquo;t have been better. Nearly three years after acquiring personal care brand Brylcreem from American consumer products major Sara Lee, Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever announced last week that it was terminating the brand licence agreement with Godrej Consumer (GCPL).

Brylcreem plugs gap in men's portfolio for HUL

Customers of this shoe brand can now place their orders online and if the shoe of their choice is is not available at a particular store, the company will ensure home-delivery in two days. In an age when one can get everything from personal care products to sundry services home delivered, this is unremarkable.

In step with the times

How does a marketing manager attract a stream of customers to one of America&rsquo;s great symphony orchestras? This challenge has long seemed daunting; but now it turns out that the secret to unlocking future demand for classical music depends on discarding the myth of the Average Customer and to see people in all their diversity, according to this extract from the book Demand.

Selling the symphony: it's not just about the music

Consumers in India and around the world have become more value conscious post a protracted slowdown, says Dr Naresh Kr Malhotra, Regents' professor, DuPree College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology. Malhotra is also a visiting consultant for business, non-government and government organisations in the US and around the world. During a recent visit to India, he spoke to Rajarshi Bhattacharjee about the relevance of marketing research during economic uncertainties.

We are seeing a shift of power away from the companies to the customers: Naresh K Malhotra

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