The mystery bug bit her very early in life. In fact, she was just seven, when her tender imaginative mind weaved together vivid plots on sheets of paper that were stapled together and cut in the shape of a book. A passion that carried well into her adulthood. Recently, Pune based author Dr Manjiri Prabhu’s detective fiction, “The Cosmic Clues” was selected in the top five books of the Independent Mystery Book Sellers ‘Killer Books’ series... Read on...

“I’ve always been very curious, and very very passionate about things,” he says. Qualities that gave 19-year old Stanford sophomore Rohan Verma the conviction that he could revolutionize the way people in India search for places and locations. Thus was born MapmyIndia (http://www.mapmyindia.com/), India’s first online interactive map based website (a la Mapquest and Yahoo Maps). Read on...

Her face completely devoid of make-up, her porcelain skin gleaming, Vasundhara Das extends her hand with an apology. “I don’t usually chew paan,” she says impishly. Dressed in casual denim, her short brown hair tousled, the ‘Monsoon Wedding’ girl cuts short her window-shopping at Global Mall with local promoters of her show Gauri Melkote and Tanveer Ahmed and their friend Mustafa Ajmeri to chat up with this reporter. 
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The peppered ponytail is pretty much in place. Backstage at the Robert Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech after his Atlanta concert, he politely shakes hands, smiles and chats up with his crowd of admirers, switching from English to Hindi to Tamil as only a Bombayaite Tamilian can....
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