Eye

From K-confessions to cricket romance, snappy tales from new India are taking a burst of first-time authors past the bestseller mark. It’s time to say hello to Indian popular fiction in English

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The Word

Till Chinese manufacturing gets its Upton Sinclair, this book will do wonderfully as an eye-opener

Fiction in Burton’s shadow

Che in Australia

Arts etc

The old gets a modern twist in the hands of India’s traditional, skill-based artists. But why are they still second to modernist biggies?

There’s a gem in every song of the 1961 classic Hum Dono, says Shankar Mahadevan

Living

THIRD EYE: The Proust Questionnaire

D.R. Kaarthikeyan is the former director of CBI. He authored Triumph of Truth: Rajiv Gandhi Assasination- The Investigation and runs the Life Positive magazine

THIRD EYE: The Proust Questionnaire

Israeli-American entrepreneur Shai Agassi is Founder and CEO of Project Better Place, a company focusing on a green transportation infrastructure based on electric cars as an alternative to the current fossil fuel technology.

TEST DRIVE

As a housekeeping staff member at a hotel, our correspondent finds out that cleaning up after others is not easy

Fashion file

Do you want to look like a million dollars sans accessories and make-up?

There is a flood of investors in Rajasthan, looking for royal homes that can now be turned into boutique hotels

Body & Mind

Rains are not always good news for your health. Here’s a guide to surviving the monsoons

HOW I KEEP FIT

My day begins with a glass of hot water with limejuice followed by a breakfast of banana with some cereal.

Diet diary

Whole grains contain no cholesterol and provide plant proteins, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals

YOUR HEALTH

Obese women who carry most of their extra weight around the stomach are 70 per cent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer...

People

Q+A: Rituparno Ghosh

Rituparno Ghosh has broken out of his mould with his first light-hearted film. No, it doesn’t have a woman in the lead. The director on his films and Bollywood connections