An Apple a day keeps old age away, at least in the new world.

A for Apple

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The first round of the Candidates saw wins from three underdogs. The fourth match had a bizarre technical malfunction that turned it 180 degrees. The first finish came in Topalov (Elo 2775) Vs Kamsky (2732). The Bulgarian GM was heavily favoured due to a more impressive career record and a much higher rating.

Chess (#667)

Is art really outpriced? For everyone who claims that the best artists are unaffordable for even the upper middle class, there have always been works that are more reasonably priced on an investment-value scale that is escalatory, but which tend to be overlooked in the (wrong) belief that a lithograph or an etching is not an original work of art.

Print run

No longer powerful or super-rich, former princes haven&rsquo;t let go of their past.

Games ex-royals play

The community centre in Mohali, a city adjacent to Punjab&rsquo;s capital Chandigarh, is choc-a-bloc with people.

Yellow uprising

Renault is back in India on its own, and the Fluence sedan is its first offering.

French benefit

Arthur Laurents, who wrote the great stage and film hit West Side Story, has just died. Laurence Arnold on the irascible writer.

Giving lines to voice

Women are from Venus, Men are from&hellip; Delhi. Not the geographical location Delhi but Delhi as a euphemism for power and pelf and all that comes along with it. That grab bag of frantic, ruthless, testosterone-driven, adrenalin-pumping, ulcer-forming ambition to shimmy up the greasy pole, be the top dog, the alpha-male, the big banana.

Sex and the Sensex

A collection of essays and other writings provides a good picture of India&rsquo;s business history, at least up to the reforms era.

Bazaar to boardroom

The Germans have never failed to strike when the iron is hot. Here&rsquo;s proof. At what was initially supposed to be only the A7 launch this week, Audi pulled a fast one and launched the RS5, too. Talk about a double whammy! The RS5 is a smoking hot version of the A5 coupe (which is yet to make its India debut). As if the Indian summer wasn&rsquo;t hot enough (think Koenigsegg, Aston Martin...

Fast 5

Baney Trimble, 11, has become a landowner. All he wanted was to ask old Miss Olivia Luke, who owns the tiny valley and the tenant house which Baney&rsquo;s parents rent, for the use of her chicken shed. He wants the shed because Miss Luke has no chickens, and because Baney has so much of what his brother Steve, 15, calls &ldquo;junk&rdquo;.

Trust be drowned

I am planning to buy a hatchback and feel that the Hyundai i20 Magna fits my requirements as far as style, space, engine and interiors are concerned. But I also believe in Toyota&rsquo;s quality. Should I compare i20 to the upcoming Etios Liva and wait until then? What do you suggest I go for? I have plans to buy in July-August.

Liva ammo

At Paradise, Secunderabad, the biryani restaurant that has made it to the tourist guide books, a board proclaims a nugget of truth. The test of biryani, it says, is to throw a fistful of rice on the floor and check whether each grain falls separately. Should two grains stick together, God forbid, the biryani is no good.

When rice met meat

The agency has kicked off a restructuring exercise post the 26 per cent buyout of its India business from local partner Sandeep Goyal.

Dentsu bullish on India growth story

The home shopping business is off to a good start.

Pressing the right button

&ldquo;Kuain ka mendhak bahar kyon nahi jata&hellip;.kyonki bahar roaming lagta hai&rdquo;&hellip;Sounds silly? Well, not so, for the Tata DOCOMO campaign on air this IPL season.

Keep it simple, silly!

Artistes from remote areas getting bigger audience through online medium.

Cross-platform digital albums from rising country stars 

The buzz around apps just got louder. Apps are no more restricted to smartphones and tablet PCs. Thank Intel and Apple for the mini-programs for netbooks, PCs and Macs.

Hall of apps for PCs & netbooks

Even until 10 years ago, Bank of Baroda was seen as a fuddy-duddy public sector bank with a bureaucratic way of functioning. That&rsquo;s when its management decided to give the bank a new identity altogether and position it as a marketing organisation. In this extract from the book Dare To Lead: The Transformation of Bank of Baroda, author Anil K Khandewal, former chairman and managing director of the bank, recounts the passionate and intensive rebranding exercise undertaken to transform the bank&rsquo;s image and perception.

More than a makeover

The world&rsquo;s second largest computer maker, Acer, has recently unveiled a new advertising campaign in India with the tagline &ldquo;Easy is Acer&rdquo;. The Taiwan-based company now wants to shed the image of being a purely personal computer (PC) and notebook manufacturer.

As easy as it gets

With a new initiative, You Matter, Reliance MediaWorks&rsquo; Big Cinemas wants to turn its theatres into more-than-just-movies destination. The 30 million customers who walk in annually to watch movies on its 268 screen across 78 cities had little reason to view them any differently from other multiplex chains in their cities. Now, Big Cinemas hopes that the two surveys it has recently conducted will arm it with the right insights to differentiate itself more clearly. Reliance MediaWorks&rsquo; chief executive Anil Arjun says, &ldquo;A movie&rsquo;s distributor creates the destiny of the movie overall, but as exhibitors we have to create the destiny a film will have in a given neighbourhood. Through the drive called You Matter, we will become consumer-led rather than distributor-led.

Bigger and better

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