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Who'll take the Oscar home?
Hollywood's progress report for last year will be made public in a few more hours. As the Academy prepares to roll down the red carpet for Hollywood's most outstanding talent, SUDHISH KAMATH decided to do a quick dipstick and ask some of the city's movie buffs who they were rooting for or who they thought would win. With some of the films not made available in India, we had to settle for opinions based on the respondent's personal choices and favourites limited to films they have seen. Some of them may have overlooked other deserving films but, hey, there is nothing official about a dipstick. Join in the cheerleading.
Arts And Entertainment

Poignant play
Staging of "The Heart Of The Matter," directed by Sita Raina, on March 2
Columns

`Train them young'
Initiate kids into the basics of everyday living, says Geetha Balakrishnan
Arts And Entertainment

Play with texture
Sheela Maradi's paintings have an aesthetic appeal

Confluence of colour and culture
Kadambam, held recently, was a wonderful mix of the visual and performing arts
Cinema

Stories within a story
"That Four Letter Word" is about youngsters, their dreams and sense of despair
Gender

From darkness to light
"Re-presenting Indian Women — 1875 to 1947" at DakshinaChitra tells the story of women through striking pictures. KAUSALYA SANTHANAM reports
CRAIG'S CALL
Ego bashing
What should women do to destroy male ego?
Whose car is it anyway?
Buying car accessories is not a man thing anymore. Women too have a say in it, writes GEETA PADMANABHAN
Just joking
A woman was out golfing one day when she hit the ball into the woods. She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap. The frog said to her, "If you release me from this trap, I will grant you three wishes." She did and the ...
Food

Delicacies from Dakshin
Of Santhi Balaraman's "Dakshin Bhog," a book of traditional South Indian recipes

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