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Traffic, cricket, fashion and films
It's time to ring in all things bright and new. A few prominent personalities indulge in some crystal gazing and tell us what's in store. SANGEETHA DEVI. K and MANGALA RAMAMOORTHY report...
Columns

Perk up your balcony
Climbers that flower throughout the year and need less care
Citylife

Meant to be broken?
What does it take to stick to your resolutions? Try little more commitment and effort...
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NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
Replace bad resolves
Resolves alone determine the nature of a person. Good resolves automatically engage one in good actions. There are various prayers mentioned in the Vedas for purification of resolve. Shivasamkalpa in the Shula Yajurveda ...


Not an Indian system
As the western concept of celebrating New Year with revelry through the night caught up in India, making resolutions also gained a foothold.These resolutions are made before an audience consisting chiefly of friends and close ones.The resolution ...
Identify goals
New year resolutions are important to prepare ourselves for the challenges ahead with a positive outlook. Resolutions will result in identifying clear-cut goals and a single-minded concentration to achieve them. We gain confidence, which will ...
New interval
Many people resolve so many things on the New Year's day. This shows significance new year. New year symbolises a new interval for the time. People rejoice this occasion. Many think of resolutions as a prerequisite for achieving success. ...
One resolution a day
I don't think there is great significance attached to making resolutions. Sometimes I feel we have developed a habit of delaying our plans of leading a positive and competent life. We idle away a lot of time and hope to bring about a change the ...
Helping hand
It's the influence of western culture that makes us celebrate New Year in a grand way. I feel people should stick to philanthropic ideas. People and the government should take steps to help those who are below the poverty line. Terrorism is ...
Live up to them
I don't understand why we have to make any resolution if we don't live up to them. There's no point in making resolutions if we do not have the resolve to follow them. Sunitha Rani Heerekar ...
Miles to go
I remember Robert Frost's famous lines `miles to go before I sleep'. Life is indeed a challenge and everybody has to accept it. One cannot fritter away this precious life. Those who realise this and proceed in life taking bold steps with ...
Ray of hope
New Year kindles a ray of hope - it is time for take stock of our achievements, shortfalls, strengths, weaknesses and devise ways to improve our personality.Resolutions should be framed with a determination to implement them in day-to-day ...
Every day is good
No significance must be attached to the occasion of New Year, which has been given undue importance! Anyone, be it a business magnet or a simple person, has the liberty to plan his or her future events, and make short term or long term ...
Just a hype
I don't believe New Year resolutions have any significance at all. This is just a hyped up trend. People who really want to change or bring in a habit need not wait for a new year to start. And will not do propaganda about it. It has become an ...
Dream better
New year resolutions are nothing but our conscious trials to see our wishes fulfilled. How often such resolutions help us succeed at the end is debatable though. At the fag end of a year, we do assess our achievements consciously or ...
Take wise decisions
Resolutions are very significant to frame our lives beautifully provided we abide by them firmly. It is time to overcome apprehensions and take wise decisions enable us to minimise some hassles in life. G. ...
Live life to the fullest
Most resolutions we set, once chosen, churn these results: tidiness - leaves with you with no peace; punctuality - every time you're late the perfectionist in your nags; being helpful - people find it hard to believe that you are trying to be ...
Next issue
The topic for the next `Voice your Views' column scheduled for January 15 is Negative portrayal of women in television serials: comment. Mail your responses in not more than 150 words or by post or e-mail at .
Cinema

Talk to me
`One Night in a Museum' releases in Telugu, bringing up the issue of dubbed films
One with the world
Animation films brazenly took on big-starrers in 2006
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Rocker, biker, friend
What did Moksha frontman Leon Ireland mean to his friends, music lovers?
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Recipe contest
Do you have a recipe that is original and innovative? Mail it to us and Chef Khosla, Executive Chef, Taj Krishna, will pick the best. The winner will walk away with a gift hamper from Priya Foods Ltd. Mail to: Recipe of the Week, ...
Books

Wars of the words
What were the best selling titles of 2006? We find out...



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