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Spotless and... unreal
Medical drama as a genre seems to be growing on television viewers, despite the synthetic gloss and unnatural depictions of ever-empathetic hospital staff. Credulity takes a beating, where fantasy rules the roost, says SEVANTI NINAN.
Lifestyle
Cool solutions for summer
DASTKAR ANDHRA is a non-profit trust that works to promote the interests of Andhra's cotton textile industry. Apart from group and product development and excellent design inputs, Dastkar's focus has also been marketing Andhra's cotton handlooms, ...

Cinema
Master of zany comedy
Billy Wilder, who died recently, didn't know English when he arrived at Hollywood. Soon his films were a hit... A nostalgic piece by V. GANGADHAR.


Of a bygone era
AT A glittering function held recently, at the British Council, Mumbai, Screen editor, Bhawana Somaaya, launched her third book ``Take 25 — Star Insights and Attitudes" released by Rekha who has also written the preface of the book. ...
Going places, literally
"A DANGEROUS game is about to begin", scream the promos. "Aankhen", a Gaurang Doshi production, directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah promises much — a hitherto untold, unseen, unique story with an incredible galaxy. What else could it be with ...
Recent trends in European cinema
The ninth film festival that comprised films from the European Union, was held in Chennai recently. A report.

Film Review
Music
KVN — zealous guardian of musical heritage
The good fortune of K. V. Narayanaswamy was that he was nurtured by two giants, Ariyakkudi Ramanuja Iyengar and Palghat Mani Iyer, says SVKin his tribute to the vocalist who passed away early this week.
Homage to Purandaradasa
THERE WAS sincerity in the performance of S. P. Ramh for Parthasarathy Swami Sabha in celebration of Sri Purandaradasa Day. If the rendering of kirtanas failed to evoke audience participation, it was because the songs of Sri Purandaradasa are not ...
Racy in style
AVM Audio - 45 B - 1256 &1257 - Carnatic classical vocal - Sriram Gangadharan - Price Rs.70/- SRIRAM GANGADHARAN, who is gaining recognition as a Carnatic vocalist, introduces his double album released by AVM Audio, with Mysore ...
On the pretext of saving Carnatic music...
AT NO time in the past was there so much concern about making the younger generation aware of the greatness of Carnatic music as at present. No stone should be left unturned to achieve this end, according to some. So, in their view, there is ...
Devotional cassettes
CHENNAI OM Sri Skandasramam, No.1, Kambar Street, Rajakilpakkam, Mahalakshmi Nagar, Chennai-73, (Phone: 2290134), has brought out three Sanskrit Devotional cassettes — Sri Soolini Durga Devi Suprabhatham, Sri Uthra Prathyangira Devi ...
A wholesome package
BY and large an audience would rather take a wholesome recital rendered modestly than one with abundant flamboyance and disappointing delivery. Latha Ramchand's vocal concert for Hamsadhwani, recently, was marked by a uniform level of propriety, ...
Organ recital
CLAUDIA HEBERLEIN-Johnson, from the U.S., will present an organ recital tomorrow (April 6), at 6.30 p.m., at the Egmore Wesley Church, 958, Poonamallee High Road, Chennai-84. The programme will also include vocal and instrumental music. All are ...

Dance
Youthful interpretations
EACH KALAKSHETRA dance drama has an individual structure and bhava. But different sets of performers bring in flavours of their own, as evident at the Rukmini Devi Birthday Celebrations held recently. Take, for instance, ``Rukmini Kalyanam'' ...

Theatre
Theatre is their way of life
This is a participatory kind of theatre where there are no fixed scripts; the plays evolve at workshops and with audience participation. CHITRA MAHESH meets Channi and Harleen, couple who wish to change society by interacting with community.

Heritage
Crowning glory for the Tiruvallur deity
SCRIPTURES REFER to Lord Narayana as ``Alankarapriya'' — one who loves ornaments, dresses and other finer things and Lord Siva as ``Abishekapriya'' -- one who likes the sacred bath. The deities in the temples of the Tamil land have always ...
Tenacity of an ardent devotee
The uniqueness of the shrine of Lord Rajagopala, in Siddhpur, Gujarat, is that it was built by a devout maidservant. PREMA NANDAKUMAR writes...
Samprokshanam
SEVERAL ARE the religious injunctions given by the Lord Himself, through priests and devotees who render service to the idols in temples, and such commands have been strictly obeyed. One such divine order to a devotee in his dream was to move an ...

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