After a good run with Domino&rsquo;s pizzas, the Bhartia-family-promoted Jubilant Foodworks is working to bring Dunkin&rsquo; Donuts to India by the first half of 2012. &lsquo;&lsquo;We would like to participate in the all-day part food and beverage market, which, though largest, is very fragmented today,&rsquo;&rsquo; says Jubilant Foodworks CEO Ajay Kaul.

New dough for Jubilant

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Friends come in all shapes and sizes. But despite this, all friends are important, says the new Airtel commercial on air at the moment. Drawing on a teenager&rsquo;s ability to make friends and the importance he or she accords to the exercise, the commercial uses music and lyrics with the theme &ndash; Har ek friend zaroori hota hai (you need friends of all types) &mdash; to communicate the message.

Airtel: Playing up friendship

Immediate references to the Vento are inevitable and if you did so, don&rsquo;t worry &mdash; we did it too. Understated has always been the operative word at Volkswagen and the Jetta sits neatly between the Passat and the Vento, perhaps leaning a bit too much toward its younger sibling. That said, the Jetta looks nothing like its predecessor and it now has more of a coupe-like stance, raked windscreen/A-pillar, et al.

Take off

Sangeeta Sisodia and Udita Aswal have never done business. In fact, they have never stepped out of home to work. But, on August 23, after sending their children to school and their husbands, who are drivers, to work, the two women in their mid-30s head to Ramlila Maidan in Delhi where Anna Hazare is on fast. There are thousands at the ground to support Anna and nationalist fervour rules strong. Neighbours have told the two young women that the protest offers good opportunities to make some quick money. Sisodia and Aswal are thus loaded with &lsquo;I am Anna&rsquo; caps and wristbands and flags in saffron, green and white like the Tricolour. The risk (they haven&rsquo;t told the husbands) and the effort (they&rsquo;ve come from the fringes of the city) have been well worth it and their stock sells briskly.

Manna from Anna

Presenting the Jetta&rsquo;s immediate competition.

Diesel dogfight

At her NGO, Sujaya Foundation, Neelambari Rao trains physically and mentally challenged youth from economically weaker sections so they can find employment. Leslie D&rsquo;Monte talks to the founder.

Enabling differently

I have been using a hatchback all this while and I wish to upgrade to a mid-segment, perhaps an entry level sedan. I have a modest budget of Rs 7 lakh to Rs 8 lakh. I drive myself and my daily driving is only 12-15 km in the city. I also plan to retain the car for at least five years. Since I have retired from government service, I also have to look at the car&rsquo;s fuel economy and maintenance costs.

Three-box desire

Aabhas Sharma finds that Chetan Bhagat the motivational speaker is as popular as Bhagat the novelist.

Best-selling speaker

Singapore elects a new president today. Devjyot Ghoshal attends two rallies &mdash; far removed from the heat and dust of polls in India &mdash; to get a feel of the campaigns.

No din, no drama

Steve Jobs wrote the finest tribute to Anna Hazare. Don't believe me? Here it is: &ldquo;Here&rsquo;s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They&rsquo;re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify and vilify them. About the only thing you can&rsquo;t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

The mavericks

Christopher Pinney&rsquo;s analysis of the charged relationship between anthropologist, subject and camera is ambivalent but informative.

The lens has two faces

The first to introduce tiebreaks, the first to pay equal prize money to men and women &mdash; A Seshan on what sets the US Open, the season&rsquo;s last Grand Slam, apart and who are the contenders.

Grand finale

Did you know that going digital can make an industry more conservative? Not that any &ldquo;content&rdquo;-related industry really has a choice. Film, music, porn, computer gaming, newspapers, photography, telecom, TV all have felt the dread squeeze of the digital world.

Click to pay

Imagine this: you had invested in two cases of top-flight Bordeaux (say Chateau Lafite Rothschild 2000) some years ago at $500 per bottle through a wine advisory. In 2011 you instruct them to sell one case, you realise $1,000 per bottle and take delivery of the other which you drink.

Dollars in your goblet

Directors, first-timers and veterans, are picking scripts that guarantee critical acclaim over commercial success.

Beyond the box office

The last time Colonel Gaddafi appeared in public, he played chess with his buddy Kirsan Ilyumnzhinov. Apparently the Libyan strongman is still in touch with Ilyumnzhinov, who has assured everyone that the colonel is alive and well.

Chess (#688)

Traditionally,the fast is broken with dates and water. But that is changing with time.

Pizza after Roza

Tushar Joag rode from Mumbai to Shanghai on his trusty bike to spread awareness about those displaced by big dams, resulting in an usual exhibition.

Dam(n)ing display

It doesn&rsquo;t have to be a case of trial and error. The constantly-evolving institution of marriage can be approached with more consideration.

Marriage: A work in progress

One of my Bengali friends tells me that when he watches a Satyajit Ray film on DVD with his (non-Bengali) wife, it takes them twice the movie&rsquo;s running time to get through it. &ldquo;I have to hit Pause every couple of minutes just to explain the finer points of a dialogue that was mangled by the subtitles.

Shades of Ray

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