Kollywood's maiden hits
Karthik Subburaj, Balaji Tharanitharan, Ranjith, S R Prabhakaran, Sathya Siva, Balaji Mohan and Jeeva Shankar.The year 2012 can be termed as a trend-setting year in Kollywood, for no year in the recent...
View ArticleMakings of a star
From a minor onscreen thug, Jason Statham has risen to become Hollywood's next big action hero. Andy Webster traces the actor's slow climb up the ladder to stardom.To paraphrase Paul Simon, every...
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Get revved upFifth Gear is a magazine format show that everyone would love — exact opinions, sharp driving, hard hitting consumer advice and an excellent compiled selection of some of the...
View ArticleLet's talk gold
"Were we successful in finding enough gold?" reflects George Wright, as he talks about his pursuits in the jungles of Ghana. "We'll simply say this, Rome was not built in a day, and Scott and I have a...
View ArticleJack of all trades
VJing, anchoring, modelling. Keith Sequeira has done it all. Now, as the dapper-looking 'Complete Man' is set for his upcoming film 'Sixteen', he talks to Preeti Verma lal about his journey in the...
View ArticleThe writing on the wall
While India's rich cultural heritage is praised in distant foreign lands, we Indians fail to value it. The writing on the crumbling wall is clear. It is up to us to see that our common cultural...
View ArticleWhen Murray ripped apart the Federer mask
Andy Murray did not just beat Roger Federer for the first time in Grand Slam play at the Australian Open on Friday, the Scot's relentless onslaught made the King of Cool lose his cool.The regal...
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Mickelson sorry for 'dumb' comment*Phil Mickelson has described his "insensitive" public comments about his tax concerns as "dumb", and on a par with the last-hole gaffe that cost him the chance to win...
View ArticleSloane's steady step
What was supposed to be a learning experience against one of the greatest tennis players in history turned into one of the biggest surprises in tennis history last week when 19-year-old Sloane Stephens...
View ArticleSoaring to a higher plane
Valery Brumel was just beginning to find success as a high jumper in the Soviet Union when he read in a Russian sports newspaper that a 17-year-old American had jumped 6 feet 7 inches (2.06 metres) -...
View ArticleWhen talent withers away
It was evidently easier to spot a child star in Hollywood 70 years ago than it is to help teenage shooting stars make the grade in professional soccer today. Shirley Temple won a Juvenile Academy Award...
View ArticleWhy size doesn't matter in tablets
In the grand scheme of worries, deciding which size tablet to get - they all sit within a roughly 3-inch screen range - does not quite rank.But technophiles and technophobes alike struggle with the...
View ArticleUsing DNA to store digital data
Scientists have given another eloquent demonstration of how DNA could be used to archive digital data. A UK team encoded a scholarly paper, a photo, Shakespeare's sonnets and a portion of Rev. Martin...
View ArticleTrapping a hacker
The inside story of how MIT officials ensnared Internet activist Aaron Swartz triggering a chain of events that ended in his suicide. Noam Cohen reports. In the early days of 2011, the Massachusetts...
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If you have been noticing it without being sure, here is an official confirmation. Yes, spam, the menace that clogs up your inbox, is on the decline. Last year, spam mails declined by about 8.2%,...
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NFO ReaderMany people struggle to open 'nfo' or info files, which carry software or product installation notes. If you usually double-click the .nfo files, Windows may display the current operating...
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No plans to work in BollywoodMany Southern stars may be eyeing Bollywood projects, but Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu isn't one of them. He says that he has no plans to act in Bollywood films and would...
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A story of revenge and suspenseThe Hand that Rocks the Cradle' is directed by Curtis Hanson. Peyton Flanders (played by Rebecca De Mornay) had a happy life with her gynaecologist husband and they have...
View ArticleWhere ethnic meets contemporary
Pilgrim is the one-stop shop for the modern Indian woman — from colourful 'patialas' that highlight one's figure to modern dresses with traditional prints that you never thought would look...
View ArticleHailing the special connection
For a person visiting the City for the first time, French Ambassador to India Francois Richier seemed pretty aware of the City's character. Francois tells Metrolife about his impression of the City."I...
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