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Shaan, shaam, and Schumi wannabes
Go-karting and Shaan is a lethal concoction sure to set the adrenalin pumping. It did at Whitefield, reports PRASHANTH G.N.
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What's in and what's out in hairstyling
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Screen savers!
Bollywood. The industry that thrives on love stories, melodrama, and dancing has tried out various combinations of actors, hoping to find the one pair that'll get the audience to go "aaahhhh" whatever they do. Some pairs sizzle on screen. Some walk inand out of the frame without evoking a single emotion. Some others are so mismatched it you can actually see the frost on the screen! What was it about Rekha and the Big B, who celebrated their birthdays on October 10 and 11, respectively, that se t the screen on fire? They would stand miles apart, but the sexual energy between them crackled through a gazillion cinema theatres. And, of course, there's nothing like a torrid romance off-screen to bring the curious audiences rushing too. ROHINI M
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Truly, madly, deeply Darren
Darren Hayes promises never to release an album unless he has something new to say
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Shuttle from Pakistan
Pakistan badminton coach Javed Iqbal is hoping for more Indo-Pak exchanges


Did you Know?
Dilip Vengsarkar captained India for the first time in his 96th Test - against West Indies at New Delhi in 1987-88. No other cricketer has had to wait this long to captain his country. The new record Indian total of 566 for eight declared ...
SPORT/QUOTE
Australian cricket has lost one of its greats but I am sure his memory and the impact he had on our game will last forever.


Green Notes

Gold and green
Cassia fistula is good for landscaping and avenue planting
Events

Naipaul coming
WHEN SIR V.S. Naipaul was in the city earlier this year to deliver the first Tehelka lecture, a member of the audience had asked him why he wrote The House for Mr. Biswas. And the Nobel laureate had simply put it down to "the need to write ...

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