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Weary but win-hungry Vaibhav Sharma The IPL-fatigued Indian squad may not be in the best of form but is raring to go MORE than a month of T20 crickaet. The third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 3) has been thrilling and provided the break India has started looking forward to each year. But now, it is back to national duty for the players at the ICC T20 World Cupthird edition in the Caribbean and India are set to be among the frontrunners.

Tame Twenty Abhijit Chatterjee Can Dhoni’s boys replicate the success story of IPL 3 in the T20 World Cup? A look at Team India’s prospects EVeN if Sir Garry Sobers is of the view that India, together with Australia, are the favourites in the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup in the West Indies, it is quite likely that the Indian squad would be suffering from fatigue after the non-stop matches of IPL 3, where the players not only played in energy-sapping heat but also crissed-crossed the country time and again.

Lamps of progress
The biggest challenge that residential schools for poor girls in UP’s backward 
areas face is erratic power supply. A Swedish company plans to provide 60,000 solar lamps to tide over the crisis, writes Alka Pande
DIVYA has a dream. Says this 12-year-old student of Class VIII, now studying hard to get promoted to Class IX: "I want to study more. My dream is to become a teacher when I grow up, and educate children of my village.’’

Gem of a place
Antwerp, home to the Flemish Baroque master Rubens, is full of beautiful architecture and artworks. A major diamond trading centre, this fast-paced, multicultural metropolis is also the city of fashion designers and trendsetters with magnificent monuments and museums, writes Tanushree Podder
HUGGING my inadequate coat against the freezing cold, I trudged along the Jewish quarters of the town, my eyes appreciating the old-world charm of the place. The setting was right out of a Victorian novel. Snowflakes fell in soft whispers as the orthodox Jews in black overcoats with flowing white beards rode their bicycles with elevated backseats.

Reality TV goes rural
Radhika Bhirani
MILKING cows and making cow dung cakes — reality content on Indian television gets a rural makeover with Imagine TV’s new show Desi Girl where eight glamorous celebrities will be seen doing all this and more in a village.

Crowning glory for
King of Style
M. L. Dhawan on the evergreen hero Dev Anand, who received the Phalke Ratna recently
On the birth anniversary of the doyen of Hindi film industry, Dadasaheb Phalke, actor, producer and director Dev Anand received the prestigious Phalke Ratna. The award was given by the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy for his contribution towards cinema.

Stars no guarantee for success
Mahesh Manjrekar is back with his latest film City of Gold. The director talks to Divyanshu Dutta Roy about what it takes to make successful cinema
HOW did City of Gold happen?
The film is based on a Marathi play written by Jawant Pawar. It was called Adhantar. It was a very successful play and ran from 1997 to 2002. I think. He came to me with the story idea and I was so ashamed to find out that I didn’t know anything about the incident.