Year 2011

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Strictly unusual: offbeat stories from 2011

Among offbeat and zany stories from the year just ending:

- The bad news for a group of employees in a Canadian technology company was that the firm was closing down and laying them off. The good ne

Notable deaths of the year

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From Elizabeth Taylor to Osama bin Laden, here are leading figures who have died in the year just ending:

January

- 4: Pakistani politician Salman Taseer, shot at age 66.

- 24: Mexican Bishop Samue

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.