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LOOKING
GLASS
MUMBAI
Tourism
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| More
of a Life with Pub Hoppers |
Mumbai's
night life gets more of a life with Pub Hoppers by Party Lines. Tourists
who were earlier hesitant to venture out after dark will now be transported
by bus (or a smaller vehicle, depending on the group size) to some of
the city's hottest restaurants, pubs and night clubs. Charges: Rs 1,400-1,500
a head including a welcome drink and discounts. Party Lines introduced
the concept because, as CEO Sushil Wadhwa explains, "It's happening
in all the big cities of the world but Mumbai has nothing along similar
lines". Telephone: (022) 363-1084, 361-1685.
BANGALORE
Store
Scullers
Club Store is a 1,400 sq ft menswear shop with interiors modelled after
a rower's clubhouse-complete with a wooden floor, a 14 ft long scull on
the ceiling, and oars and other rowing memorabilia on the walls. The starting
price for the shirts stocked here (mostly casual, a bit of formal) is
Rs 699, trousers come for Rs 799-plus and ties for Rs 399 or more. It's
at Brigade Road. Telephone: (080) 509-8475.
NEEMRANA
Swimming Pool
The 15th
century Neemrana Fort-Palace has just got itself a swimming pool. It's
on the sixth level of the 10-level complex, and gives guests a glimpse
of the sunset and distant hills from the rectangular frames that pierce
the ramparts of the fort. It has two jacuzzis within a traditional step-well
design. The hotel even permits eating-while-in-the-pool. "People
just don't want to leave it so we've got to have all-night attendants,"
says hotelier Aman Nath who has been working on the pool for the past
10 months. Coming up soon: a health club and "pleasure domes"
offering ayurvedic massages. For further details, call (011) 461-6145.
CHENNAI
Café
Retail major
Lifestyle International has tied up with coffee pub Qwikys to replace
its existing café with a Qwikys Coffee Island on the outlet's first
floor. The trademark fluorescent glow signs are very much there. The 30
varieties of Qwikys coffee and imported syrups apart (at prices that start
at Rs 30), the café-counter also serves pizzas, pastries and other
snacks. Address: 81, TTK Road, Alwarpet. For details, call (044) 498-0008,
467-2527.
DELHI
Concert
Memorial
concerts are seldom in sync with the persona of the artiste in whose memory
they are held. But in a rare and befitting selection, the Pandit Durga
Lal Memorial Society presents a host of artists whose attitude towards
their art reflects the no-hype-all-substance approach of that peerless
master of Kathak who died-quite recently-in his early 40s. Between September
8 and 10 at 6.30 each evening, Kamani Auditorium will host some of our
best 40-something musicians and dancers. The list includes Chitra Visveswaran
(Bharatnatyam), Biswajit Roy Chowdhury, Uma Dogra (Kathak), Madhup Mudgal
(Vocal) and Leela Samson (Bharatnatyam). For more information, call (011)
696-5585, 647-7158.
Contributed
by Fawzan Husain, Stephen David, Methil Renuka
and S. Sahaya Ranjit
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