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INTERIORS & HOMES: High on home and hearth
The home décor market has grown at 35 per cent annually for the last five years, capitalising on Indian consumers’ newfound tendency to do up their homes better than ever.. It’s the home front that’s looking up. Of late, ...

TRENDS: Hair raising experience
Lately, one realised that one is the baldest early morning walker on Linking Road, Borivili. This hurtful thought came a few mornings ago when from a passing school bus there was a chorus from school going kids: “Arey, takloo uncle ...

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PEOPLE: A billion, brick-by-brick
From a farm worker to a construction magnate… the founder of Nagarjuna Construction shares his amazing life story.. This is the journey of a school dropout who, in a span of 40 years, has built up a billion-dollar construction company and ...

DOMESTIC TRAVEL: Ladakh S.O.S.
The highs and lows of a first-time trek amongst incandescent and mystic landscapes. Ladakh, to me, is a state of mind, not a mere destination. This home-truth kicked in during an eight-day ‘moderate to difficult’ September trek ...

CONSUMERISM: Information on demand
For three years now, the Right to Information Act has captured the nation’s imagination. But women have been slow to apply.. The movement for the Right to Information (RTI), born in Rajasthan in the mid-1990s, caught the imagination of ...

RAILWAYS: Toot-toot in Kashmir
It’s been a joyride for thousands of Kashmiris ever since a train began running in the Valley recently.. Since its launch in October this year, the gleaming red train in Kashmir has carried passengers from all parts of the landlocked ...

EDUCATION: Making young minds work
The Brainworks chain of schools aims to maximise a child’s development in the early years.. During a conversation with Sachin Tendulkar a few years ago, Lina Ashar learnt how the ace cricketer owed his much acclaimed ball-spotting ...

BOOKS: Progress on wheels
India lives in its villages. And India moves on six wheels, not four. Don’t these two statements hold good even today? Long before the automobile industry acquired the sheen of glamour that the proliferation of new passenger cars brought ...





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