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Protests Hit Retail Ahead of Durga Puja

West Bengal is home to 43,000 Durga Pujas, and the business around it is a major economic driver. IMAGE: People perform a street play during a protest condemning the rape and murder of a trainee......

Remembering the beguiling but mercurial Princess

She threw extravagant parties but could be miserly with the servants, loved polo and also champagne, was autocratic and mercurial. Kishore Singh, who worked closely with Gayatri Devi, remembers the......

Videshi Dosa

I picked up the hefty Sunday newspaper. Having had my fill of the hardy perennials in American news -- the latest on the Presidential candidates, the continuing agony in Iraq, the previous day's......

Lunch at the world's best restaurant

We had heard about it. We had read articles and reviews about it. We had received e-mails praising it. We had watched television shows about it. And finally, we were going to it.To the Fat Duck,......

Amazon, Flipkart HQs get battle-ready: Draw up sales strategy in war rooms

Covid-19 has been an inflexion point for e-tailers. Photograph: Abhishek N Chinnappa/Reuters E-commerce companies managed to beat the odds by adopting a flexible approach in terms of transforming......

Why food and grocery retail looks like a tough nut to crack

The sale of Nature’s Basket, Godrej’s chain of food stores in west India, is the second exit by a big group in a year in the category The $4.5-billion Godrej group last week joined......

Metro Man wants to change how we shop

'The best way to make an impact in this market is by focusing on three things: Unmet customer need, unarticulated customer need, and emerging customer need,' Metro's Arvind Mediratta tells Sangeeta......

Coming soon: India's first branded chocolate chain

Unlike global majors like Lindt and Godiva no standalone Indian chocolate boutiques have expanded into a national chain yet. ITC plans to change that with its luxury chocolate brand Fabelle, says......

How Trent came from behind to win the retail game

The reason for Trent’s success is rooted in its slow and steady approach to expansion. Unlike others, Trent, led by Noel Tata, ensured that each store was profitable before it went on to the......

Chup: Revenge of the Artist Review

Critics of Hindi cinema are a disparate, colourful, bunch that evoke much derision and tut-tut among its own tribe, but Chup's distant understanding of their influence and idiosyncrasies fails to......

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Theatres are finding innovative new ways to increase footfalls, discovers Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Is it a multiplex or an experience? As PVR Cinemas, Cinepolis, Inox and Carnival, among other......

The Meyerowitz Stories: Thank God for Netflix!

If it wasn't for Netflix, we'd never have seen The Meyerowitz Stories in India.J Jagannath is captivated by this film about three disconnected siblings and their even more disconnected father.......

Special movie moments, 2015

Aseem Chhabra's take on the highlights of Indian cinema this year. With the close of the year, critics and film writers come up with their top favourite lists. But even in those remarkable films......

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