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Hedge your bets

Struggling entrepreneurs are like gamblers; they often believe that if they give their startups a little more sweat, they can turn them around

HR management in retail

The growth in Indian retail has brought in its wake fresh challenges for HR. Here's how the leaders are dealing with them

The great fall

Cricket across world at its lowest. As greats are all gone, authors trace decline of gentleman's game

Remembering Ammi

Having spent nine years with Begum Akhtar, noted singer and performer Rita Ganguly paints an intimate picture of her mentor in her centenary year

Feast after fast

Ramadan evenings are solemn celebrations of days spent fasting. The author joins a family in the ritualistic iftar meal

The Faridkot billions

Portrait of a gentleman

Unlike Amrita Sher-Gil's feisty self portraits, Dhurandhar's are more sombre in comparison

Neighbour's envy, owner's own

It is a high-end television set, no doubt. But whether you want it to be Plain Jane or a ravishing fashionista is up to you. The author tells you what the first customisable big-screen TV set is capab

Dances and riddles

Chess (#1054)

By the Adayar

The author goes for a morning walk on Boat Club Road where Chennai's super-rich live

To get a body like John Abraham

Vanishing plate

Indigenous ingredients and dishes are disappearing as much due to modern lifestyles as environmental factors. It's fortuitous, therefore, that the traditional kitchen with its focus on healthy food fi

Sen & Dreze's uncertain rant

The book resembles the ruminations of two disgruntled senior citizens on all that is wrong with India. Where are Amartya Sen the philosopher and Jean Dreze the activist with a creative agenda for chan

Return of the smuggler

With import duty on gold raised to 8 per cent, smugglers are back at work. The author reports on the novel ways in which the yellow metal is being illegally brought into the country

How KK Birla outwitted Charan Singh

A few weeks before his planned arrest, Vajpayee tipped off Birla who booked himself on a flight to Paris

A table for two

A pool table is not only a great recreation option for a leisurely afternoon but also ups the cool quotient of your living room. The author tells you where to buy one and for how much

Drive carefully, obstacles ahead

Dreamers Media offers to share the payment of EMIs if, in return, the car owners allow the vehicles to be used as moving billboards

Side-splitting

Tarmac gobbler

Land Rover's Sport becomes a more civilised monster, having shed a lot of flab and gained a new street cred