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    WHAT THE WORLD IS READING ABOUT

    Indian Express
    September 1, 2008 Monday

    A Classy Place to Meet, With a Bonus, The New York Times

    Just because you're an enviably wealthy business traveller, doesn't
    mean you can't scrimp and scrounge. Even if you're staying at The
    Ritz. According to Perry Garfinkel, it makes great financial sense to
    splurge on a suite and save time and money by using it for meetings
    and power lunches instead of booking conference rooms and enduring
    surly taxi drivers and snotty Maitre'ds.

    This growing trend, he writes, also helps cement better relationships
    with clients' (in a hotel room?) because of the intimate setting. And,
    save money by buying refreshments from a store. You'll save at least
    $50 out of your $900,555,889 fortune! Steaming into Bangladesh,
    The Times "The miasma of corrupt odours" described by Nick Redmayne
    as he takes a trip into Dhaka on a century-old steamer should help
    us Indians feel right at home. Although he summons many standard
    South Asia cliches about our neighbour, his foreignness' allows
    him to see facets many of us in India cannot, perhaps because of
    our shared history. Such as the 400-year-old Armenian church and
    cemetery in Dhaka, ramshackle remnants of the Armenian community that
    once thrived here. Dhaka, he writes, is no world-heritage designate,
    "but for an old town' experience it's streets ahead." Besides, it's
    cheap. Have Pantsuit, Will Travel, The Nation To dress for success'
    is painful says Patricia J. Williams, as she ponders the role clothes
    play in the dreary march from conveyor belt to taxi stand to hotel:
    "Sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits' is how Hillary Clinton put
    it. And with those simple words, the peculiar misery haunting my
    entire professional life flashed before my eyes." Suited and booted,
    you can't wiggle your toes, leave alone take off a sweaty jacket
    "because you're worried about bra straps". More about clothes than
    travel, the article underlines how the power suit can be as confining
    as a corset when you're on the go. Europe's Weird Ways, Der Spiegel
    The August issue has something for every "embarrassment-seeking
    tourist". Spanish baby-jumping' festival; the battle of the oranges
    ("Italy's biggest food fight"); or the "flour wars of Galaxidi"
    in Greece (yes, another food fight). At least it's a change from
    karaoke and limbo dancing. Vagabondish (www.vagabondish.com) This
    e-zine-cum-blog, arguably the best of its kind provides a wealth of
    offbeat information. Did you know you could check out underground
    life in Paris with a sewer tour, go on Washington's scandal trail or
    snigger at Iceland's (unmentionable parts) museum? There's advice on
    everything from flashpacking ("when backpackers grow up or get rich")
    to how to use the "wondrously perplexing" bidet.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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