Sujit Chandra Kumar
Triumph of hope
Vaibhav Vats grew up in a house in east Delhi, which was separated from the rest of the city by Yamuna. Cricket, in this neighborhood, occupied the role of a daily ritual.
Pay now, watch later
His film is called Sunrise (Arunoday) but he shoots every night in the dark alleys of Mumbai.
Motorcycle diaries
To fuel their passion for biking, a few lads in Thiruvananthapuram ganged up and went on road trips. When they uploaded a video called Ghost Ryderz — influenced surely by Nicholas Cage starrer Ghost Rider — on Orkut and YouTube, it created such a buzz that many came forward to join them. Not because the video had tremendous footage but because they hadn’t seen anything like it before.
Yoga reloaded
Born in Korea, Minhee Cha learnt traditional yoga in India. Later, when she went to the US for her research in sustainable clothing, she came into contact with the latest forms of yoga. A life-altering moment came during a yoga conference that she attended in San Francisco conducted by Jenny Sauer-Klein and Jason Nemer, co-founders of acro yoga, a form of yoga that two partners do, combining yoga and acrobatics.
A new artmosphere
When a minister asked the Borivali Gang — Malayali artists who have made Mumbai their adopted home — what they could do for their home state, Riyas Komu and Bose Krishnamachari came up with the idea o
GALAXY OF ARTTHROBS
Vivan Sundaram’s work is new but his material is old. In fact, it is as old as the civilisation that is said to have existed once in Muziris, the port town in Kerala after which India’s first ever biennale is named.
‘Hillary was first, I said too’
The news about a forthcoming book by British author Mick Conefrey that tries to establish that Edmund Hillary was the first man to scale Everest during the 1953 expedition, and which received wide cov
Brush with the bizarre
A thing of beauty may be a joy for ever, but for successful contemporary Indian artists, it is the bizarre and unconventional which gives them the kicks. Modern art, which commands lakhs if not crores, turns logic on its head and sometimes manages to throw up a surprise factor by presenting the extremely ordinary as extraordinary.
Have an dea? Maybe its time has come
Biz whiz Bill Gates began his amazing corporate journey while he was still a student at Harvard. Howard Dell's unlimited ambitions made him start PC's Limited, the precursor of Dell, while he was studying in the University of Texas. Mark Zuckerberg is another college entrepreneur who made it big. Other successful college startups include FedEx, started by Fred Smith, and Venus Swimwear by Daryle Scott.
Have an idea? Maybe its time has come
Biz whiz Bill Gates began his amazing corporate journey while he was still a student at Harvard. Howard Dell's unlimited ambitions made him start PC's Limited, the precursor of Dell, while he was studying in the University of Texas. Mark Zuckerberg is another college entrepreneur who made it big. Other successful college startups include FedEx, started by Fred Smith, and Venus Swimwear by Daryle Scott.
