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Fishing for trouble
Taslima Nasreen writes to titillate, to create a furore. She does it deliberately. Sunil Gangopadhyay, in New Delhi the other day, reveals all this and more to SURESH KOHLI.
Books

Let's get personal!
After focussing on Vaastu and Feng Shui, Ashwinie Kumar Bansal changes tracks to Khajuraho with a book that reiterates what Vatsyayana told us centuries ago, says ZIYA US SALAM.
Know Your City

Dream merchants all
THERE ARE magic wand solutions for everything, which can give even Harry Potter a run for his craft and popularity. And Delhiwallahs keep looking for such wands, especially to shape up their body. There are two clear super favourites for them ...
Lifestyle

Australian model, Indian dream
Donna Twycross, the Australian model-cum-actress was in Delhi recently to test the waters in the Indian film and modelling world. R.V. SMITH catches up with the pretty Donna Bella, as she is known back home in Melbourne.


All eyes on... lehengas
PITAMBARI, A popular brand synonymous with saris and lehengas, recently unveiled its latest bridal collection in New Delhi. The collection was an amalgam of modernity and traditionalism. Sariss - embedded with resham thread and delicate ...
Personality

A different tune
WITH THE General Elections just round the corner, political pundits and psephologists would soon be busy trying to make the right calculations to predict the right outcome. But even before the election fever actually grips the country, there is ...
Issues

Words for widows
The plight of the women abandoned at pilgrimage centres by a society that provides no succour to its widows is worse than words can describe. Yet people must know. ANJANA RAJAN speaks to Kusum Ansal, the author of "The Widow of Vrindavan".
Over to Neruda in Hindi
POLITICS, ROMANCE and poetry are potent weapons in themselves but when they are mixed the potion thus formed is ethereal. Neftali Ricardo Reyes Bosoaloto or Pablo Neruda who chiselled the aspirations of Chileans through his singular concoction of ...
The topic of the debate is...
THE UNITED Nations was under scrutiny of a mini parliament ushered in the hallowed portals of Kennedy Auditorium of Aligarh Muslim University this past week. Participating in the All India Sir Syed Memorial Debate-2004, youth from 14 universities ...
Fashion

High on style
IT IS back to tradition with High Design. The underlying philosophy of High Design - manufacturers of leather products - is to create fashionable attires like jackets and pants and accessories like bags and belts of highest quality. Rather ...
Cinema

New talent, old virtue
HUMAN VALUES, emotions and soil of the country, mention these three and a complete change seems to come over Kuku Kohli, who otherwise appears unconcerned and lost. "I was born in Peshawar, those ties with my land, the fragrance of its soil and ...
Sheen and sparkle
LIKE MANY a newcomer to Bollywood, Tarun Arora says his entry into films was through "mere luck". Landing the role of the hero in "Sheen", the much talked about silver screen directorial debut of Ashok Pandit - so far known for TV serials and ...
Telewatch

The story of a new television
IT SEEMS strange to read about the onslaught of foreign channels on Indian television in early 1990s and the cultural and social transformation that followed it, from a foreign author. And it seems stranger, rather amazing to see that the author ...
Eating Out

Food, fun and aesthetics, the Pooja way
"Go to any small-time hotel or dhaba, their food is just yummy. They know how to cook non-vegetarian food best."
Perfect dhaba look
A HANGING lantern, a canister and a deflated tyre on the rooftop and a bit of foot tapping Punjabi music... This is what makes the splendid setting of the Punjabi Food Festival that is on at Vaishali, the speciality Indian cuisine restaurant at ...
First-degree fare
THERE IS something we don't quite know about what sets street food apart. The French would say "Je ne sais quoi"; the Thais would rush to Sukhimvit and Silom streets, while our very own Dilliwallah would perhaps choose the Paranthe Wali Gali. Yet ...

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