King of the cue

The new World Professional Billiards champion, Pankaj Advani, is only the second Indian to win this title after Geet Sethi. M. S. Unnikrishnan profiles the career of the young cueist, who is also one of the two players ever to bag both the billiards and snooker world titles
Pankaj Advani has scripted a new chapter to add that one title missing from his trophy rack and has also kept India’s glorious tradition in cue sports in the process. With this win, Indians have now got 40 titles in billiards and snooker in their kitty, since Wilson Jones won the IBSF World Billiards Championship crown in 1958.

From fashion to films
He’s best known as the designer who sexed up Gucci in the 1990s. 
Now Tom Ford has turned his hand to direction. Kaleem Aftab reports 
from Venice
With his movie debut A Single Man, Tom Ford proves he’s just as much of a stylist in the director’s chair as he was when he turned around the fortunes of Italian fashion house Gucci in the 1990s. It’s been five years since the immaculate designer left the Italian fashion house, telling the world that he was going to change career. As expected, his first film, A Single Man, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival recently, is heavy on style. It’s also remarkably polished.