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...essence, hotels are creating sub-brands, says marketing professor Chekitan Dev of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. "It's a subtle form of brand extension, with separate decor, separate signage and sometimes separate uniforms," he says. Le Meridien, a hotel chain based in London, adapted this thinking with the launch of Art + Tech, a design concept geared to sophisticated travelers who demand a stylish ambience as well as the latest in technology. The Lingotto property in Turin, Italy, built within a former Fiat factory, features an entirely separate Art + Tech building...
...DIED. VIJAY ("GOLDIE") ANAND, 71, prominent Bollywood director and brother of durable cinema star Dev Anand, who together made several 1960s and '70s Hindi-language classics; in Bombay. Anand's credits included Guide, Kala Bazaar and Jewel Thief. He also served as chairman of India's film-censorship board, a post he resigned in 2002 after clashing with the government over his suggestion to allow the screening of adult movies in some theaters...
...final reel. In Raj Kapoor's Awaara, she was required to age 24 years in the role of a loving wife who is unjustly accused of infidelity. After that, she played mum to the top male stars of Bombay's Golden Age: Dilip Kumar in Ganga Jumna, Dev Anand in Guide, Dharmendra in Aap Ki Parchhaiyan. Women on pedestals are expected to behave like statuary: the heavenward glance, the beseeching gesture, a grandeur silent and stoic. Not Chitnis. Hers was a robust femininity; it humanized the saints she played. She retired in the '80s and moved to the U.S.?alas...
Rachel M. Riederer ’04, an environmental science and public policy concentrator in Mather House, and Dev P. Purkayastha ’04, a biology concentrator in Lowell House, are members of the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice. Readers may contact the group at harvardnowar@yahoogroups.com to receive announcements of events...
...Reported by Subir Bhaumik and Dev Nayak/Calcutta