Drive devil
Narain Karthikeyan’s passion for racing has put India on the world motorsport map. Akbar Ebrahim, who guided Narain on the fast track, writes about the racer and his winning Formula
To start with, Narain was a very shy kid. He didn’t want to talk to anybody who had nothing to do with driving fast cars. As far as those with fast cars went, all he wanted to do was to drive their cars.

• Race apart
  M.S. Unnikrishnan
  Narain Karthikeyan’s life on the fast track turned full circle when he made an impressive Formula One debut in the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. He finished 15th to realise a dream which he once thought would never come true.
  

There’s profit in MYTH
Renaissance-inspired thrillers woven around secrets and symbols in art and religion are a rage, says Louise Jury
Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code has clocked up 250,000 sales in Britain since it came out in paperback two weeks ago. But The Rule of Four by Americans Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason is creating an even more astonishing bestseller in its wake as thousands of readers seek out the arcane Renaissance text which inspired it.

Haute line
For the not-so-young
Rekha Rampal
Maturity is a relative term that has little to do with the age or looks of a woman. Yet, the very mention of the word conjures images of one not-so-young, obviously successful in her career and in complete control of herself — someone like Simi Garewal, who is very much her own person.