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FREE MIND
Joono Simon’s ads are making people laugh and take note. The young creative director of Mudra Communications tells Prema Manmadhanthat he will continue to reinvent himself
Columns

METRO WORKOUT
Fairway to health
Maithri Srikant has a swinging time at the Trivandrum Golf Club.


BLAST FROM THE PAST
SABARIMALA SREE AYYAPPAN 1961
Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair, G.K. Pillai, Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair, T.S. Muthiah, Rajan, Hari, S.P. Pillai, N. Balu, Manavalan Joseph, Ambika, Padmini, Ragini, Adoor Pankajam
Mobile masterpiece Asus Lamborghini

Two great names renowned for their style have come together to create this masterpiece. Just about everything on the Lamborghini that makes it look so stunning has been incorporated into the ZX1. For instance, the car’s versatile ...


Uber-deluxe Motorola Aura 

Motorola, after collaborating with Dolce & Gabbana to market its Razr phone in an all-metal ‘white gold’ finish, teamed up with designer Alexander Amosu to sell diamond studded Motopure headsets. It has now decided to build a ...


Devil calls on Prada?  LG Prada 2.0

This phone is the much anticipated successor of the original Prada. The first generation phone made history as the first full touch-screen phone and a ’powerful aesthetic pioneer’ as LG calls it. This one has an almost identical ...


Electrifying time For music lovers
DJ Ghislan promises to charge you with his kind of music
GOING NATIVE
A Malayali in spirit
Pepita Seth’s ties with Kerala are spiritual she believes
NOW SHOWING
Pakalnakshatrangal

It is the story of a script writer-director named Siddharthan (Mohanlal) who gets entangled in a murder, while writing a murder mystery.

Screenplay is by actor Anoop Menon. Suresh Gopi does a cameo in the film directed by Rajeev Nath. ...


WIN A PRIZE

Send in your sightings: bloopers, UFOs or anything out of the ordinary you have snapped. Send your photographs to metrowcontest@gmail.com titled CaughtSnapping along with a caption, your address ...


Conference on foreign policy

Kerala International Centre will celebrate its first anniversary by holding a one-day conference on foreign policy in cooperation with Ministry of External Affairs on December 13 at Taj Residency, Thycaud.

Governor of ...
Beauty And Wellness

Facts about figs
Toss up a salad with ripe figs
Food

QUICK FIX
Pistachio wafers

Preheat the oven to 180 Celsius. Grease a tray and keep aside. Mix icing sugar and butter together till fluffy. Whip egg white and fold into the icing sugar mixture.

Fold in maida and mix well. Add half a cap of vanilla ...


SIGNATURE DISH
Kesari

Call it what you will. Have it plain white or with a dash of orange colour in it. The end result is the same if it is fine semolina cooked in milk and sugar with dollops of pure ghee. Garnish it with some cardamom and cashew nuts and kismis ...


THE RELUCTANT GOURMET
Not the creamy layer
Did you know that in India soya cream masquerades as regular cream and is used in almost every cake, mousse and souffle?é
For a happy dining experience
Eating out Happy times at Happy House, Pattoor
Food bytes
www.matablog.com
Music

Rock on
‘Le Petit Orchestre Swing’ swayed the listeners with their melody and rhythm
Television

Christmas treat
Kitchen goddess Nigella Lawson comes up with special recipes
Miscellany


Profiles

Sitting pretty
Anoushka Shankar says fusion is a tricky word
Travel

Luxury amid greenery

Far off from the busy highway, tucked away in a remote village at Ariyankuppam, is the Kailash Beach Resort, nearly 10 km away from Puducherry. Situated on 11 acres, the resort promises a stay close to Nature in traditionally designed rooms ...
Events

Fusion music

Latif Bolat from Turkey and Parvathy Baul from West Bengal present ‘Baul Sufi Sandya.’

Venue: Vyloppilli Samskriti Bhavan

Date: December 7

Time: 6.30 ...


Crafts from the North-East

On display and for sale are handicrafts from the North Eastern states. Check out cane furniture, baskets of bamboo and cane, dry flowers, kouna cushions and mattresses.

Venue: Chandrashekaran Nair Stadium

Carol concert

YMCA, Trivandrum, organises a carol concert bringing together choirs from churches across the city.

Venue: University Senate Hall

Date: December 7

Time: 5.30 ...


Mela

YMCA, Trivandrum, organises ‘Grameena Vipanana Mela’ to display and sell products by farm clubs, Kudumbasree units and self-help groups.

Venue: YMCA Hall

Date: Till December ...


Bible expo

Latin Archdiocese of Thiruvananthapuram organises ‘Vachanoltsavam 2008,’ a bible exhibition and various cultural fetes.

Venue: St. Joseph’s HSS Auditorium

Date: Till Dec ...


Through open doors

‘Open Doors’ an exhibition of paintings by K.R Santana Krishnan.

Venue: Art-Smart Gallery, Elankath Complex, Overbridge

Date: Till December 20

Time: 11 a.m. ...


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