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India: Imagined and experienced

Granta's second book on India aims at providing a subaltern perspective on the country but doesn't quite achieve that, with too many English language writers and not enough regional works forming a pa

L'Oreal mulling bigger e-commerce play in India

The move comes as online sales in categories such as make-up grow quickly for the French major

Up next: Driverless cars

Is it time to give your driver the golden handshake? With driverless cars, the day is not too far away

An app to identify safe zones in a city

A new mobile app is allowing women to identify safe zones in a city with the help of crowd-sourced audits

Meet venture capital pioneer Vani Kola

Vani Kola left behind a stellar career as an entrepreneur in the United States to gamble on the startup ecosystem in India. She has no regrets

The impulsive collector

From Javanese Lombok boxes to an autorickshaw titled Roopmati, painted in pops of pink and yellow, Samir Modi collects art that catches his eye

Reaching for the skies

While real estate is in the dumps, several projects have been launched for the well-heeled

My Life My Style: Niranjan Hiranandani

The Modi jacket: eyecatching design

Game changing flavours

Leading chefs from across the country share their journeys to find exotic ingredients and techniques

Is cholesterol the villain it's made out to be?

Cholesterol has long been associated with poor eating choices. But new US guidelines say that dietary cholesterol has very little impact on one's health. The author looks at the debate

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Renewal at Puri

It takes a festival for a city to reinvent itself

Beat the swine flu season

A simple mask can provide 62 per cent protection against viruses, compared to 98 per cent protection with a professional-grade N95 mask with 14 layers

A sous vide in every kitchen

Celebrating wines

SulaFest is not really a wine festival anymore - it's now a landmark music festival, with bands such as Gentleman's Dub Club performing to capacity crowds

Bear extraordinaire

The book glosses over all the moral complexity that, these days, books for children about animals in captivity usually embrace

Caught between platitudes and mindsets

Home is where the heat is

Lexus back in luxury race with new compact SUV

A Lexus NX 200t crossover sport-utility vehicle that is helping Toyota Motor put Lexus back among the top luxury brands

40 years ago...And now: How Dalda built, and lost, its monopoly

Dalda was established in an advertising blitzkrieg but later ran into trouble