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A lifetime's work, A lifetime's award
ZIYA US SALAM speaks to seasoned filmmaker and critic Chidananda Dasgupta, the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Best Writing at the ongoing Osian Film Festival.
Fitness

Fitness Watch
WITH POLLUTION on the risethe need to have a fitness regime is now felt greatly than ever before. Technogym, a leading company in the fitness sector that provides sophisticated equipments and services, has installed India's first fully automated ...
Lifestyle

Sportingly yours...
Women are increasingly appearing as sports commentators on TV. Contrary to stereotypes, not all of them are there to increase the channels' face value, says SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY.
Personality

Second helping
SOME TWO years ago we were introduced to "The Tiger by the River". For those who enjoyed that safari, against a backdrop of Kerala royalty, novelist Ravi Shankar Etteth has recently come out with his second novel, "The Village of Widows" ...


Quite a start
SHE is an Economics graduate who wanted to be a diplomat. When it comes to Bollywood Gauri Karnik uses both the aspiration and the reality to a fair degree. She understands the microeconomics of the glamour world, which offered her the sky ...
Just like that!
SHE CALLS herself an incorrigible extrovert. She loves to be with people. Though she does have moments of solitude to cherish. Tannishtha Chatterjee who was seen in a principle role in Bas Yun Hi (a dud at the box office) resorted to ...
Music

Partners in love
MANY SUMMERS ago two young music directors made a promising push with Chandni Ratein. It surprised many because the duo learnt the craft in the U.K. and the music was neither remix nor Punjabi. It had the melody of separation, the rhythm of the ...
Eating Out

A man of taste
"My book answers how to change gravies to sauces, how to convert desserts to dishes and the like. I have tried to give an international appeal to traditional food."
Southerly aroma
SIMBLY SOUTH, the speciality South Indian restaurant at Plaza Mall, Gurgaon, has an interesting array of vegetarian and non-vegetarian food from the four southern States in a milieu that looks like a café with contemporary interiors. An informal ...
Shopping

Going digital
DESIRE TO discover the new world of imaging? Wish to let your imagination explore many possibilities on camera? Your wait is over. Samsung has recently announced the launch of its new, high tech range of digital products - audio players and ...
Land & People

Actors all...really
YOU MIGHT have heard many whisper that a married man with a family will do anything for money. It often holds true too. But there are always exceptions. A glimpse at Naseeruddin Shah and family, consisting of his wife Ratna Pathak Shah, daughter ...
Entertainment

Policing crime...
THE POSSIBILITY of zeroing in on fugitive Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, accused of criminally assaulting and murdering U.K. schoolgirl Hannah Foster, you would concur, came about primarily due to the wide reach of television. This murder accused's ...
Dreaming about cinema
HE HAS held a festival of Indian films wherever he has been posted. And achieved a perfect 10 with a retrospective of 23 films in Nairobi early this year. He has hobnobbed with the low and mighty, the man on the street, and the craftsman of the ...
Sharad sonata
IT WOULD be difficult to find a man more obsessed with Kundan Lal Saigal than Sharad Dutt, who is by profession, Chief Producer, Doordarshan, but by vocation, chief fan of the legendary singer. Recently he has even formed a special forum for ...
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