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No GIMmicks, it's Business
A year after the much-hyped Global Investors Meet (GIM), another business fora, B2B, begins in the city. M.P PRAVEEN talks to students on what they feel about the utility or futility of such ventures.
Fitness

The perfect abs
Here are tips on how to workout for the abs.
Lifestyle

Traditional for comfort
Traditional architecture is better suited for the warm and wet Kerala weather, is what MINU ITTYIPE finds after meeting a few architects who believe in this.


In good hands
They are noticed more by others than you. Most of us apply good nail varnish and leave it at that. Bangles, finger rings, nail polish, mehndi, tattoos all makes your hands look beautiful but the actual beauty comes from the skin rather than the ...
Arts & Crafts

Tales of Panchalipuram
IT'S EASY to miss Yousuf's Art Gallery in busy Jew Town; it's hidden between scores of kiosks trying to peddle Indian crafts to an unwary visitor. Once located you wonder what artist T. A. Mani's works are doing jostling for space in this tiny ...
Into a colourful world
WHEN ANJAN would spontaneously pick up a pencil and start doodling, his parents' reaction was to tear the paper in shreds and tick off the two-year-old. Fourteen years later the father justifies his action: Anjan suffers from cerebral palsy, his ...
Personality

Waiting for the right break
There has been a surge of young, talented singers in Malayalam of late. Waiting to make a mark is T. T. Sainoj, whose classical training and confidence is bound to carry him through.
Life IS beautiful
Parvathi Ranganathan is painting beautifully at 80. V. RAMANATHAN meets this ne'er-say-die lady.
Issues

To save a school
The Government Upper Primary School at Edappally, which boasts of illustrious alumni, faces the threat of closure. PREMA MANMADHAN on the efforts of the teachers and well wishers to stall it.
Showbitz

The new Venus
NEARLY TWO years back when Priyanka Chopra made her debut opposite Vijay in "Tamizhan" she refused to wear skimpy clothes. But today, after "Andaaz" and "The Hero", this former Miss World has hit big time and is the new Venus in Bollywood. Her ...
Sense and sensuality
AFTER SHE had cried foul with "Ek Chhotisi Love Story", Manisha Koirala has not only shed her inhibitions but has also done some daring scenes in Aruna Raje's "Tum- A Dangerous Obsession", releasing this Friday. "Tum" had earlier run into rough ...
Superman Jackie!
JACKIE CHAN is fighting fit at 48, though decades of unrelenting pounding and bone breaking have taken their toll. His new release "The Medallion" is full of Chan's brand of action and humour. The story is about a detective (Chan) who suffers a ...
Events

Quizzing li'l geniuses
The preliminary round to search for India's Child Genius, a TV programme on Star World was held in the city.
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