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A leap of faith
Passions: Shruti Singhal believed in swimming against the tide. That is how the city-based investment banker decided to get into alternative education
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GOing once, GOing twice
Musings: One too many GOs made you run from pillar to post? Sometimes the only way to preserve your sanity is to go funny-side-up
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Too early at the altar
A lone girl’s crusade against child marriage in an Aurangabad village has become a movement with 50 villages in the district falling in line.
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COIMBATORE,
June 18, 2013
Ready to face the Sun?
After a brief spell of rain, the Sun is out and the time seems right to check out Green Trends’ Summer Chillers, a range of facials and feet and hand treatments for men and women. Therapist Sheela...
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Bangalore,
June 17, 2013
Santhosh Padmanabhan gets high on running
He’s not your average Bangalore techie. From a cushy job with a leading city microprocessor company, Santhosh Padmanabhan is now chasing his passions — fitness and children — and enjoying every mo...
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June 16, 2013
I am... E. Mohamed Ali
At Border Thottam in Royapettah, E. Mohamed Ali is standing in front of his workshop, filled with posters and jeep paraphernalia. It should be, after all, Ali is one of Chennai’s few jeep-only mec...
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MANGALORE,
June 15, 2013
Elderly are abused but fear to speak out, says study
Almost 75 per cent of the elderly people surveyed in a study said they were abused but they did not report the matter. The study, titled “Dignity and Equal Rights”, was carried out by HelpAge India...
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HYDERABAD,
June 14, 2013
Snapshots for posterity
Ours is a city in transition, with the ongoing Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) project rapidly changing the face of the city. Forget the inevitable traffic snarls and water logging the city is facing a...
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Kochi,
June 13, 2013
Guardians of liberty
People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Kerala ChapterTARGET: To remain function as a secular, democratic body for that raises its voice voicing against issues affecting the common...
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KOCHI,
June 12, 2013
Helpline for animals
His skin had peeled off exposing raw pink flesh. Acid had burnt most parts of his body, including a patch on his face. Once somebody’s pet, he had been reduced to a festering bundle of flesh and b...
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Kochi,
June 12, 2013
Youth power
The National Chairman of YI (Young Indians), Srikantan Suryanarayan from Kochi, is all set to represent the organisation at this year’s G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance Summit (G20 YEA Summit) in...
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Thiruvananthapuram,
June 12, 2013
Running on enthusiasm
Like many students of management Vasudev Hemachandran races against time to finish projects and seminars. However, Vasudev, also a fitness and sports enthusiast, decided to tread a different beat...
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June 11, 2013
Five reasons pets get better with age
They finally figure out that they’re the bosses – Over the years, the furry ones will discover that they rule your home and heart. You-ll soon hear yourself saying — “Place Choco’s bow...
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A helping hand
Helping hands
Left in the lurch?
The blue beckons…
More for the ears
Chocolate queens
All that junk
‘No Adivasi will die of hunger if we get our alienated land back’
On its last legs
June 17, 2013
Legal group launches website for women's rights
The long arm of the law is often inaccessible to women in need. In order to change that and facilitate legal help and intervention for women in distress, Partners for Law in Development (PLD) plans...
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Bangalore,
June 16, 2013
The inside story
Mohan Kumar, or Mohan Bihari as he is more familiarly known (for his native state, Bihar), has been a prison inmate in the Bangalore Central jail for the past 12 years. Yet, he has managed...
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June 16, 2013
How young is too young?
I was invited recently by a school to help its teachers develop a remedial instruction programme for students with learning difficulties. In the interactive session that followed, a teacher opened...
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KOZHIKODE,
June 14, 2013
Getting to the attackers
(A weekly column on the region’s past culled from historical documents.) The British, though taken aback by the murder of H.V. Conolly, waste no time in bouncing back. Conolly was ki...
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KOCHI,
June 13, 2013
Fancy a pet iguana?
Shoo away that staid pet- the old sock dog, cat, gold fish and the odd parakeet. It’s time for fancy pets for city folks. Muhammed Anaz, a cat breeder and supplier of animals to the South Indian f...
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June 13, 2013
One voice
Pitch Four brings together lead vocalists of Chennai band Subject To Change Anjana Raghavan and Anisha Verghese, and musician-guitarist Vedanth Bharadwaj and percussionist Alfie (Salwin Alf...
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June 12, 2013
Superfans of steel
As the new Superman reboot, directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Christopher Nolan, opens in the theatres on Friday, diehard fans are hoping that the Man of Steel speeds up the earth’s rotation...
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MADURAI,
June 12, 2013
Igniting a spark of hope
She stayed in a dark, dusky room inhaling chemicals which could have adverse affects on her health. The nimble hands of the 10-year-old worked tirelessly in a matchstick factory in Thoothukudi. Bu...
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Thiruvananthapuram,
June 12, 2013
I am…Parameswaran
Parameswaran Asari is one of the many independent goldsmiths in the city stoking the embers of a glorious tradition of craftsmanship. His small one-room shop-cum-workplace at Vanchiyoor has none o...
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June 9, 2013
The sun is free!
R.R Balasundharam is a happy man. From Rs. 2,400 his electricity bill has dropped to Rs.100. All thanks to the 1.6 kilo watt solar panels that stand on the terrace of his house-cum office. The Pre...
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