A tribute to heritage
The first two days of 'Gitanjali Prasad Bidapa Fashion Week' saw prominent and regular Page 3 personalities in full attendance along with the best of Bangalore designers hand-picked by Prasad. Held on...
View Article'Male voices blend a little bit better'
For anyone who has heard of University of Pennsylvania, Penn Masala, the world's first and premier South Asian acappella group, will also ring a bell. Metrolifespoke to some of the current members of...
View ArticleDon't depend on physical strength
If there's anything that recent events have made clear, it's that women in this country need to learn how to take care of themselves.Given the lackadaisical response from the authorities regarding the...
View ArticleSilicon Valley investors turn pickier after rocky year
Call it the Facebook effect. Until recently, investors had been all too eager to pour millions into any Web start-up with rapid growth, regardless of whether it made money or even had plans to do so...
View Article'Kirana stores to usher cashless India'
In an economy where cash continues to be king, as is proven from the fact that Indians withdraw about $400 billion cash from the approximately 1 lakh ATMs every year, heralding a cashless system is a...
View ArticleDecoding economic inequality in India
In a recent panel discussion held in Bangalore, celebrated Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz stated that globalisation has resulted in economic inequality throughout the world. To him, the USA...
View ArticleSmartphones become life's remote control
For several years, technology companies have promised the dream of the connected home, the connected body and the connected car. Those connections have proved illusory. But in the last year app-powered...
View ArticleSearch on Internet: Change is the only constant
In literature and philosophy, in both West and East, the notion of search refers to expansive, ambitious human pursuits. We have, alternately, searched for the Promised Land and the holy grail....
View ArticleSoftware's blindspot
Digital calendars are a great tool to manage time. But most vendors have ignored it, says David Pogue.You know what's kind of wild? We can identify products by their container designs. You'd know a...
View ArticleCriticism and enjoyment
The topical exhibition "Re:public" (Gallery Five Forty Five, January 13 to 26) curated by LinaVincent Smith marks and confronts associated issues. It triggers a focus on the individual as part of...
View ArticleMediocre concert
The 93rd birthday of Dr R K Srikantan, the nonagenarian vocalist, was celebrated with the Sankranthi festival last week. Veena, flute and vocal concerts were held and a few senior artistes and...
View ArticleIt's raining remakes
What is common between the 1995 Coolie No.1 and the 2012 Bol Bachchan? The easy answer is: both movies took inspiration from Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 1979 cult film Golmaal. One was David Dhawan's...
View ArticleSaluting girl power
At a time when President Obama is under attack for appointing so many white men — and so few women — to senior positions in the White House, Hollywood seemed intent last Sunday on...
View ArticleTech blog
The new normalInternet activist Aaron Swartz's tragic death has triggered a debate on copyrights. Swartz was caught downloading millions of academic papers from JSTOR, an academic publisher. His...
View ArticleDH Utilities
Free Software Gizmo's freeware lists the best of free software according to different categories. If the freeware comes with bundled toolbar or other unwanted software, the site gives detailed...
View ArticleTv Talk
'Television is too much hard work'Salman Khan loves his once-a-year brush with the small screen, thanks to reality show Bigg Boss, but taking up a fiction show seems too cumbersome for him....
View ArticleFilmi fundas
'It will be a new experience for me'Bipasha Basu isn't afraid to take risks. This was obvious when she acted in Raaz 3, a horror flick that definitely wasn't everyone's cup of tea. And now, she is...
View ArticleOpinions on the table
The first international conference organised by the computer science department of PES School of Engineering, South Campus — 'RETCOMP 13' — was a learning experience. It was...
View ArticleThe cream of the crop
The department of fashion and apparel design of Garden City College recently hosted the 'GCC Travel Puraskar Awards', which had winners from across 21 categories. Choosing the awardees wasn't an easy...
View ArticleDepicting a spectrum of emotions
East West Public School recently celebrated their Annual Day at Chowdiah Memorial Hall, where close to 800 students participated in various cultural performances over the day. Unlike previous...
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