Mukesh Ambani’s new house – Antilla

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Thought it will be interesting to cover the house being constructed in Mumbai’s Altamount Road by the world’s richest man – Mukesh Ambani. Yep, he’s officially the richest now with the skyrocketing share prices of RIL.

The house (called Antilla) is being valued at Rupees 4000 crores and will be 173 metres tall. Normally that is the equivalent of a 60 storeyed tower, but in this case each floor is more than twice the height of a normal floor, with the result that the building will only have 27 floors when completed. Given the prevailing state of skyscrapers in Mumbai, this building will be more than twice as tall as the earlier tallest buiilding. The view from the top will be breathtaking, no doubt.

Some other absurd facts about this ‘house’..

1. 3 helipads on top. Mumbai corporation has not given permission for making this operational yet.
2. Hanging gardens within the structure
3. Swimming pool within the structure
4. A two storey Health centre
5. Parking space for 168 cars (6 floors). I initially thought that meant there will be a mini office in the building but apparently that is not the case. All these cars will belong to Mukesh Ambani! Just in case you are interested, he drives a 5 crore Maybach now.
6. A floor exclusively for servicing these automobiles within the building.
7. A floor for Home theatre – sitting capacity of 50

Most absurd of all, the house will have a staff of 600 (sic) to do the maintenance activities. That gives a ratio of 1:100 for people living in the house and those who are paid to take care of it. The six lucky (?) ones are the man himself, his wife, his 3 children and his mother Kokilaben. The family will be moving in from their old home ‘Sea Wind’ which was a 14 floor building at Cuffe Parade.

In fairness, Mukesh bought the property in 2002. So he has not spent anywhere close to the $1 billion people are now valuing the property at. And it is not just him, plenty of other rich tycoons have indulged in their residences. Two people who immediately come to mind are Mittal & Gates.

UK-based steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal (he is still an Indian citizen though) bought the most expensive house in London last year, paying £60m for a place in Kensington Palace Gardens.Microsoft founder Bill Gates had his house built as technology showpiece several years back. The house is reputed to have cost upwards of $100 million. I will write about this particular property sometime in the future. It is much more interesting than the Ambani house, because Gates tried to implement many new, yet to be proven technologies in his blueprint.

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It is Sunday again and time to relax for most of us. In the past, due to lack on interactivity on our portal, solving crosswords was an issue. We have decided to keep crosswords on hold till we can get a good way for people to solve it on-line and enhance the user experience.

Today we present you “Aavaas-Jumble-01”. Most of you are perhaps, already familiar with Jumble puzzles which appear in leading newspapers. For those who are not, here is a quick overview of how to solve the puzzle:

• Each “Jumble” puzzle is a list of 4-7 words.
• Each word is jumbled and presented in a grid. For example the word “TABLE” would be jumbled as “BEATL”.
• You have to Un-jumble the word and write it down in the same grid. This has to be done for all the words presented in the set.
• Each grid which has a word associated with it has also a “marked” cell. Usually it is highlighted with a circle.
• There is one “Super Word(s)” which is formed by combining these “marked” alphabets.
• If you have solved all the words and the super word, you have solved the “Jumble”.

Sounds simple? Well try today’s puzzle below:

Here we have 5, seven letter words presented in a jumbled manner.

Your first task is to un-jumble the individual words and write it down on a piece of paper.

Then you need to pick the alphabets which you see inside the “marked” cells (ones which are circled).

You would get 7 alphabets. These 7 form the last “super” word.

Usually a clue is given for the “super word(s)”. But since this is a very simple word, we are not doing so.

Solve it and post your comments. We are eager to see the responses 🙂

Trivia:

Jumble was created in 1954 by Martin Nadle (aka. Naydell or Dell & Nadel), and is one of most important properties of Tribune Media Services, which holds the rights to the JUMBLE trademark. Daily and Sunday Jumble puzzles are featured in hundreds of newspapers.

More on this from Wikipedia – – > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumble

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