He's one of cricket's best-known commentators, but Harsha Bhogle loves to play down his achievements, finds Gargi Gupta 
In many ways I'm still an outsider," Harsha Bhogle declares early on during this chat.

All work and all play

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Virgin Mobile is flying in the face of conventional wisdom with a niche strategy for the Indian market. 


Leap of faith

How Indian Industry is managing quality? 


Product design drivers

THIS WEEK: The eyewear market in India in 2007

Strategic tools for the practising manager

Good business schools boost your self-confidence by providing you with excellent business tools  discounted cash flows, game theory, organisational behaviour, financial accounting, and so on  all of

How to face failure

1 When words make love to music and vice versa, a song is created. There is a perfect balance between the two and that is why the impact is strong. The music connects en masse and the lyrics make the

Music to my ears

Put Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta together and mix to get  no, not an item song but cricket, discover a baffled Shuchi Bansal &amp; Aabhas Sharma. Here's how.

And you thought it was cricket!

Going from the micro to the macro, the beginning of the fiscal year is a good time to take stock of how far the wine industry in India has come in the last few years, where its headed and how far one

Time to raise a toast!

Heard of the khomcha, the sigri or the mahi tawa? Revitalised traditions come together at Jiggs Kalra's "dream" restaurant. 


Don`t travel, just dine on the legends here

Systematic investment plan (SIP) is a popular investment strategy employed by a large mass of investors.

SIP versus active investing

Theres nothing quite as refreshing as a dip in the pool in the summer and when it comes to choosing a new swimsuit for the season, the hotter the better! A series of 2008 summer-spring collections

Be the butterfly... in the pool!

For all of us who go through life aspiring to be grown up enough, with more responsibility and authority, watershed moments when, indeed, we begin to make that crossover, can be ironically traumatic

The trauma of responsibility

This whole Hillary versus Obama contest reminds me of my own brush with the US presidency, which sounds exactly like the buildup-with-an-anticlimax-in-store that it is. 


It`s about star power

Jammin' may be Nandan Piramal's pet project, but his heart lies in football. 


Not just a game...

Watching the Martin Scorsese-directed rockumentary Bob Dylan: No Direction Home on DVD, I found myself thinking about the V S Naipaul controversy  specifically, the outbursts from the media

Portrait of the artist as human

Doughnuts - believe it or not - are at the centre of a huge new trend in Asia. A new Singapore-based company hopes to spark it off in India too. 


'It`s Asia`s new gourmet food'

This will be the year of debutante directors in Bollywood, says Abhilasha Ojha, with prestigious banners and big budgets backing newcomers.

New directions

Uneasy at the increasing commodification of art, a number of Indian artists are turning to radical experiments with performance art. 


A body of art

Two painters look at a world from behind layers of meaning. 


Abstracted realism

Mercedes-Benz and BMW have built their second generation SUVs. But only one of them can be called a Super SUV  which one? 


The Big Fight

Do non-artsy audiences for public art exist? I am asking because of both an unlikely, recent encounter with public art in Delhi, and more globally, the Banksky phenomenon. 


Out on the streets

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