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QI am a 19 year old male. I was fair 4-5 years ago. I've suddenly grown dark on my face and also developed dark circles, although my body is fair. On consulting a doctor, I was told that it was because...
View ArticleBreathing trouble
Proper education on the condition can help in controlling and managing childhood asthma, says Dr M R Shashi Bhushan.If one were to describe or define asthma in layman terms, it is a chronic disease of...
View ArticleGenerations split wide open
With children relocating to other cities and countries in pursuit of careers, parents are alone and lonely in the evening of their lives. Children who stay back to take care of their parents are bitter...
View ArticleCyber yugadol nava yuga madhura prema kaavyam
Help the friend ogle at girls, help him get a girl. Help the friend elope but make sure you are left holding a girl's hand, the friend's girlfriend's friend's hand. End of story? Not really. Cyber...
View ArticleHard-edged battle for equality using cricket
In this exhilarating true-to-life tale of sporting endeavour, Stevan Riley's documentary, Fire in Babylon, shows that while sport can be used by teams to wage war without carnage, it can also serve as...
View ArticleChaarulatha
Conjoined twins falling for the same guy who loves only one of them leading to disastrous, or tame, consequences is nothing new for our filmmakers. What is new is the source of adaptation (due credit...
View ArticleBrilliant, but banned
If you are a self-respecting reader of any worth, you must have read at least some of the following books — To Kill a Mockingbird, Ulysses, Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, Animal Farm,...
View ArticleRecalling replies
'Replies' can prove to be marvellous at times, admirable as well as astonishing. For, who doesn't love a written reply to a letter? Sadly though, in these days of easy phone calls, instant e-mails and...
View ArticleThe blind traveller
James Holman, who was hailed as one of the 'greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously explored', very soon became a forgotten hero, writes Giridhar Khasnis.This year marks the 155th anniversary...
View ArticleTowards a better India
When Chetan Bhagat, the quintessential youth magnet, started writing a weekly column for a major daily, he quite surprised many. Because he did not write about lost loves and education at IITs, but...
View ArticleCornered women
P Sivakami's second novel,The Taming of Women, leaves the reader with too much reality. In 1989, she became the first Dalit woman to write a novel — Pazhaiyana Kazhidalum —...
View ArticleBook Rack
Fading dreams, old talesP A Visalam, translated by Meera RajagopalanOxford, 2012, pp 270, 495The protagonist, the youngest in a large extended family, leads a carefree childhood, only to confront the...
View ArticleAsiatic ascent
Mishra's work, which examines the interaction between the East and the West, is particularly relevant at a time when Asia is considered to be on the rise, writes AVS Namboodiri.The interaction between...
View ArticleContemporary moves, classic touch
Contemporary dancers and dance companies in India can be counted on your fingertips. Prominent among them are Chandralekha, Astad Deboo, Daksha Seth, Isha Shervani and Jayachandran Palazhy to name a...
View ArticleBehind the scenes
Traditional masks used extensively in Assamese theatre are made in Majuli. Madhu Gurung visits the place to learn more about the art and craft of mask-making.The Brahmaputra flows serenely by the...
View ArticleThe queen of Thai silk
Long before the Duchess of Cambridge became an ambassador for the best of her country's fashion industry, Queen Sirikit of Thailand was using state visits to promote traditional Thai textiles and to...
View ArticleA bit of Mysore, abroad
Situated in Northwest Switzerland on the River Rhine, scenic Basel is a border town hugging France and Germany. As a confluence of these assimilated cultures by virtue of its location, Basel is a major...
View ArticlePerceptive lines
Biswajit Balasubramanian likes to explore social issues in serial frames, the way artists explore concepts, learns Hema Vijay, after a tete-e-tete with the cartoonist.In Biswajit Balasubramanian's...
View ArticleSuriya's twin success?
It all started when director K V Anand read about conjoined twins and their way of life. He casually mentioned the idea to Suriya, with whom he delivered the blockbuster Ayan, and forgot all about it....
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Romancing success
From little oaks grow mighty acorns. This proverb is best proved by Dadasaheb Phalke laureate and Padma Bhushan Yash Chopra, who on the occasion of his 80th birthday, also announced that he would hang...
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