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Gosh! What a charmer!
Committed, accessible, and charming... Amitav Ghosh is what every reader would want her favourite writer to be. C.K. MEENA is awed by the man whose fame does not ride on the back of mammoth advances or large publishing houses.
Health & Medicine

Transfusing life
Collecting blood for thalassemia and haemophilia patients and promoting voluntary donations are among the tasks undertaken by the Bangalore Medical Services Trust.
Personality

Classical singer who's cyber-savvy
He is passionate about Carnatic music and computers and says modern technology is a boon.


Tips from the Tibetans
A month-long, Spicmacay-sponsored stay at Dharamsala made two city girls look at life with a fresh perspective.
Music

Chords & Notes
This week at Planet M...
Eating Out

For sheer Anand!
HERE'S THE next best thing to having a Bengali friend who frequently calls you over for a traditional meal. Go to a little restaurant in the Majestic area, which serves food that tastes remarkably like home-cooked food. The large numbers of ...
Shopping

It's mela time at Shoppers' Stop
PARIKRAMA, THE popular festival at Shoppers' Stop is back with a bang, this time with the mela theme. The festival, which began last week, is on till August 24. Up for grabs are bead work from Rajasthan, lacquer and coir toys, palm leaf ...
Taking the consumer movement to schools
The consumer movement can make serious headway in its objectives if it can impart easy-to-understand lessons to students. Schools will have to help in building this motivation.
Silks for all ages
WALK DOWN M.G. Road, and you are unlikely to miss the landmark that has been there for the last four decades. Yards of intricately woven silk, resplendent in their design and magnificent colours, decorate the windows, enticing the passer-by to ...
Land & People

Rakhi on the Net
WHEN PEOPLE are on the move all the time, even relationships go online. Considering that most middle-class families in India have siblings scattered across continents — one in Bangalore, another in Madrid, and yet another in New York — ...
Entertainment

Sense of rhythm is his vision
Visual impairment did not come in the way of this dancer who has mastered the Bharatanatya, especially abhinaya.
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