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Luxury brands have to brace for high rent

Owing to high rents in Mumbai and the response from Delhi, most luxury retail players want to expand in the capital

Rs 900 crore for a painting - or three

Here today, more tomorrow

Stars and the gutter

Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal has been accused of sexual assault by a young colleague

Writer's code

Vikram Chandra on the convergence of writing computer programmes and fiction. An excerpt from his book Mirrored Mind: My Life in Letters and Code

Mooch ado

A 'PI Magnum' or a 'handlebar'? Or would you rather sport a 'trucker? This Movember - the month of the moustache, we ruminate over the symbol of manliness

Whiskey for a world traveller

Johnnie Walker brings out a bespoke traveller's trunk to celebrate the spirit of adventure that had a Londoner pedalling around the globe

An elephant trail

26/11 cost just $40,000: Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark

It was an inexpensive operation powered by LeT's internal politics and owed its success to India's bureaucratic bungles

Voting out errors

A 4,818-year-old voter, 502 voters aged below 18, Nandan Nilekani's daughter registered four times. These are anomalies PG Bhat is rooting out of electoral rolls across the country

Mumbai's memories of terror

Five years after the attack, 26/11 survivors share their stories of the time when death stalked the city streets.

Chess (#1072)

Kevin Pietersen at 100

The first Ashes Test match at Brisbane is Pietersen's 100th Test Match for England

Look hot this winter

My Life My Style: Anita Dongre

'God is in the details'

Is an earphone worth $ 1,250?

The author checks out the sound-isolating earphones from Shure and finds them unnecessarily complicated

Top it with tea

Darjeeling produces what has always been considered the champagne of teas. The author finds out which is the finest of the lot

Licence to grill

Fancy a barbecue on your terrace or garden? We list a few essentials

5 point swagger

BMW's new 5-Series is a serious challenger to the segment leader, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class. It is more powerful, has interiors that break the mould and sports innovative technology

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