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Looking
Glass
KOLKATA
Recreation Centre
Sparkz,
Kolkata's latest "family-entertainment" centre logged 1,200
visitors in its opening three days. Reason? This split-level warehouse-turned-hangout
has an eight-lane bowling alley, Dodge 'em cars, pool tables, a video
arcade and (very soon) a party room for rent. And while waiting to bowl,
there's a coffee pub, Aqua Java, where you can grab a coffee and snacks.
But the on the flip side are the the slightly steep rates for bowling
and pool (Rs 125 and Rs 50 respectively for a rack). Call (033) 448-1744
35 or go to Diamond Harbour Road, Alipore.
MUMBAI
Sports Centre
Sports lovers
who double as executives can now mix business with pleasure. A Mumbai
lifestyle club, Acres, in Chembur, offers the usual sports facilities
like tennis, basketball, squash courts, a swimming pool, gymnasium, bowling
alley along with extras like a kids corner, cyber café, business
lounge and conference rooms. But Acres' USP seems to be a go karting circuit
with a strength of 12 karts and a circuit route which will be altered
at regular intervals. Call (022) 522-4799.
BANGALORE
Restaurant
 If
Raj nostalgia gets the better of you then head for Jolly Nabobs
at the Windsor Manor Sheraton. Favourites like mulligatawny soup and cutlets
shikampuri are a must, but the kakori kababs, chargrilled and drizzled
with saffron, and the bawli handi (lamb stewed with potatoes) can't be
ignored. The interiors have mahogany panelling, hunt pictures, and wooden
flooring. Meal for two: Rs 1,000 (minus alcohol). Call (080) 226-9898.
Talk
of the Towns
A frail,
wheelchair-bound man may seem an unlikely repository of
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CONTRIBUTION: Hawking at the Qutub Minar, Delhi |
Einsteinian
prodigiousness, but then Professor Stephen Hawking is not your average
scientist. The 59-year-old Professor of Maths at Cambridge University
set India's scientific community agog on his recent visit to the country.
After a six-day conference, 'String 2001', in Mumbai, the cosmologist
who can communicate only through a portable computer and voice synthesiser,
set foot in Delhi for a freeze-frame encounter with Qutub Minar and Jantar
Mantar. "It's difficult not to like him," added his graduate
assistant Neel Shearer. We agreed. As did President K.R. Narayanan who
hosted the man aiming to propound a unified theory on the existence of
universe. Lover of spicy Indian food, the man with a rapier wit and wry
humour had a single epithet for India: "magnificent". Glad to
hear it.
-Riju Mehta
NAME
DROPPING
Doffing their hats to the country's financial capital, the Indian
Navy decided to name its third Delhi class destroyer, Mumbai (below).
But the ship's crew have thought of a personal tribute to the city where
it is being commissioned on January 22. All the areas of the 6,700 tonne
warship with staid names have been named after different parts of the
city. So the bridge is called Malabar Hill which offerss the most panoramic
view of the city, the operations room, Mantralaya, the engine room Chor
Bazaar, the Fleet commander's cabin, Raj Bhavan, and the helicopter deck,
Sahar airport. Wonder what the toilets are named after?
-Sandeep Unnithan
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