Wedding diet
All brides wish to look their best on the wedding day. The importance of good nutrition and diet is immense, especially prior to marriage. A pre-wedding diet should focus on a combination of various...
View ArticleUnderstanding health bone-deep
Women tend to suffer from brittle bones after the age of 40 but at times fragile bones can haunt them much before that too. Absurd lifestyle comprising of smoking, drinking, laziness combined with our...
View ArticleEarly sunset for eves in public places
Going by the boards placed near sites of historical, cultural, or commercial importance, public spaces are marked open for everyone. But beneath the glitzy covering of such signs lie ghosts, which pass...
View ArticleSkip this race
Race returns. And reveals more skin. If the first part managed to light some fire, the sequel doesn't even carry matchsticks. Instead, the movie relies on its three ever-bare-ready women. So there is a...
View ArticleNever waver from your goal
Sirisha gets ready to be married and even chats up her groom before zooming off, leading DIG Rudresh Gowda on a wild goose chase. A distracted Gowda chances upon Hari, whom he had last dispatched off...
View ArticleColosseum: Land of blood & gore
Amidst the busy surroundings of present day Rome, the capital of Italy, lie the scattered ruins of the once powerful Roman empire. Among the rubble of tiles, broken arches and fallen pillars stands a...
View ArticleIn the lap of nature
Any description of Kodagu is in danger of turning into a cliché; but the endless rows of coffee plantations, the crisp mountain air, the clear blue skies...can all mean just one thing, that...
View ArticleWaters of Wiesbaden
From Romans to Europe's richest, the magical waters of Wiesbaden have been attracting tourists for their curative powers. Kalpana Sunder soaks in her aches at ancient spas in the sleepy German...
View ArticleDriving him crazy
Jay is so immersed in his scientific cogitations that he just drives with the flow of traffic, often getting diverted miles away from where he intended going. He decided it was better to get a driver,...
View ArticleArt in movement
As the London Underground celebrates 150 years, Anurag Mallick and Priya Ganapathy ride the Tube to showcase the historic art and design behind its stations. The London Underground carries four million...
View ArticleVoice of the voiceless
Ever since James Joyce penned A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which Modern Library hailed as 'the third-greatest English language novel of the 20th century', every creative person and his/her...
View ArticleScam time Bengaluru
Author Zac O'Yeah's initial foray into the realm of English fiction came with the novel Once Upon a Time in Scandinavistan, a crime thriller with science fiction elements and dark humour. His next...
View ArticleBook rack
Chanakya's New ManifestoPavan K VarmaAleph, 2013, pp 242, 295This book analyses the multiple challenges facing the country today and proposes unambiguous solutions to them. What would classical India's...
View ArticleDeeply Humane
In Will Self's 'Umbrella', which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a new drug helps to awaken an elderly woman in 1971, after nearly five decades in a stupor, writes Dwight garner.Ken Kesey,...
View ArticleBLOT's the way to go
At the popular Bangalorean indie music space Counter Culture recently, a crowd danced in partial darkness, illuminated only for brief moments by the light from images on a large screen. Performing at...
View ArticleHere & now of Korean art
The upcoming electronics and cyber giant Korea has again taken centre stage. This time, however, the country's young artists are the ones making the mark. Hema Vijay offers a glimpse of the futuristic...
View ArticleStriking the right note
Like New York has its Carnegie Hall, Bangalore has the Chowdaiah Memorial Hall. There is an anecdote about Mischa Elman, one of the greatest violin geniuses of the 20th century. Walking home one night...
View ArticleLegend of gorgeous garas
Think of family heirlooms, and usually the first thing that comes to mind is a priceless necklace or some antique timepiece. But surprisingly, in some cases, rare pieces of breathtakingly beautiful...
View ArticleShaping 'dhokra'
Reminiscent of the dancing girl of Mohenjodaro, 'dhokra' artworks are slowly gaining popularity. Brinda Suri writes about the artisans' efforts to keep the artform alive.The dancing girl of Mohenjodaro...
View ArticleAbbas-Mustan: For the thrill of it
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. The uncanny meeting of minds between Abbas-Mustan is more amazing than so many similar characters we encounter in books and films.There's virtually no point in...
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