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Shaping the successful student
With mushrooming of hi-tech schools, the imbalance in educational facilities is more evident as lack of infrastructure in certain schools still remains a cause for concern. Bridging this gap is the need of the hour, writes USHA RAMAN.
Know Your City
Fabrics for your home
Go on a shopping spree of furnishing fabrics and upholstery at Tobacco Bazaar, which has more than 100 outlets dealing in the same.
Face Facts
Masking stretch marks
Here's how you can steer clear of stretch marks apart from managing the existing ones.
Lifestyle
Elahe with élan
`Elahe in vogue' is the latest destination for a variety of designer labels in clothes, jewellery and home accessories.

It's haute
Heart Couture -- the ongoing festival of contemporary designer wear for women at Marichika brings a collection from Bangalore-based `Barometer' to the twin cities.
Go get them!
While applying for a job, the resume and the covering letter should be an advertisement of "you" - the product.
Music
Masala melody
Bollywood has been a little adventurous of late, with some films breaking away from the beaten formula. And right on cue, even music directors are trying out variations. The music for `Haasil' is a case in point.
Eating Out
Homely and wholesome
In Shree Shyam Nivas, Secunderabad, one is fed with good food until he or she starts feeling guilty about the unlimited quantity that is offered at such a throwaway price.
United colours of food
The Holi food festival at Promenade in Aditya Park Inn offers an opportunity to savour the different cuisines from across the country.
Summer relief
The cucumber diet is a great favourite with dieters everywhere, but substituting them for regular food is, in effect, a starvation diet. A better strategy is to snack on a cucumber every time you feel the need to eat more than your daily nutrition ne eds.
Introduction
WHEN I was in school the average tiffin we carried to school was paratha, puri or sandwiches or it used to be a variation of the three and occasionally, it would be pakora. Then somewhere between my school years and my son's school years came a ...
Roast chicken
THE RECIPE is as follows: Whole chicken - 2. For marination one requires oil - 2 tbsp, salt - 5 gms, pepper powder - 1 tsp, mustard paste - 2 tsp, bay leaves - 5, peppercorns - 10, magi seasoning - 2 tsp, rosemary or ...
Green tea
How is green tea prepared? What are the ingredients used and where are they available? Amaravathi, Vanasthalipuram GREEN TEA is a greenish-grey tea from China. Its leaves are characteristically rolled into pellets. It is ...
Home-made naan
I ONCE saw this in a friend's home but have never tried it by myself. Take a 15-litre oil tin, remove both the top and the bottom. Place a heavy tawa on a gas fire, sit the tin on top of it, so that the tawa is surrounded by the tin. Turn the gas ...
Easy desserts
I AM sure there are many simple recipes that you know how to make, which are both easy and quick. For example, I am sure you know how to make fruit custard or fruit jelly. Do try to make a fruit srikhand. To make a fruit srikhand, hang curd ...
Events
Communication beyond the media
A two-day workshop on communications organised by the SN School of Performing, Fine Arts and Communications had professionals from different fields sharing their experience and knowledge with the students.
With an Asian focus
The Institute of Asian Studies celebrates its Golden Jubilee this summer and lined up are a series of lectures and seminars and participation of eminent personalities.

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