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Tata’s Nano Comes to the Big Apple

By Lavina Melwani • Feb 22nd, 2010 • Category: 24/7 Talk is Cheap - The Blog

There it stood in all its bright yellow glory, an icon of style, right in the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design on Fifth Avenue! Yes, the Tata Nano is causing a buzz in Manhattan as museum goers circle it and peer at its many features, its cute shape and its various assets. There was a rope around it and no one was allowed to touch it, giving it even more of a celebrity status.


Preity Zinta’s Big Apple

By Lavina Melwani • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: 24/7 Talk is Cheap - The Blog, Cinema

She may have thousands of fans but Bollywood star Preity Zinta is a diehard fan of – New York City!

She comes in to New York so often that it’s like a second home to her. She says, “It is my favorite city in the world because a) it’s one city that never sleeps. b) Its a city that can swallow you and you can disappear in it, which is fantastic. c) It’s so diverse and every time I come back so many things have changed about it.”


The Guggenheim Turns 50

By Lavina Melwani • Sep 8th, 2009 • Category: 24/7 Talk is Cheap - The Blog, Art, Travel

There are hundreds of people streaming around a circular, stunning white building on Fifth Avenue as cars and buses and taxis honk and inch their way on the traffic laden street. With a start you realize the men are all wearing suits and hats, the women prim dresses, even the children are dressed decorously in coat dresses – and the automobiles are all large, with chrome plating and flashy tail fins.