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A docu-drama with a difference
Marapachi from Chennai defies traditional norms of a play and yet entertains and grips its audience, writes S. AISHWARYA
Columns

FESTIVAL OFFERS: REAL OR GIMMICK? : VOICE YOUR VIEWS
Marketing tool

Discount sales during festivals are gimmicks luring consumers to make unnecessary purchases disturbing family budgets and dumping unwanted goods in homes. It is common sense that big companies are not charitable institutions so as to offer ...


Experience

People crowd the shops during festival time to pick up seemingly good bargains. Despite knowing that the discounted rates are not much different from the real price, customers welcome these offers, as it gives them a chance to compare the ...


Whose benefit?

Festival offer is a useful sales promotion tool to attract the attention of consumers and create a demand for the product. Festival season is the right time to sell as people are on a purchase mode. Sellers clear their old stocks or second ...


Awareness

Festival occasions are an ideal time for businessmen to cash in on the fervour. In the name of providing festival offers, they mix good and bad products. People should be more aware and not get cheated.

M.MEENAL, ...


Good business

Festival offers are partially real and partially gimmick. While those offered by automobile and home appliances dealers are real to an extent, those offered by jewellers and textile merchants are mostly gimmick. When festival offer is given by ...
Beauty And Wellness

At the cutting edge technology
Men’s hair styling is big business now, says expert Nayana Karunaratne


When the stork visits late
Consciously or otherwise, women now have children at a later stage. Is this healthy?
Ask Shahnaz
Beautician Shahnaz Hussain offers tips and answers queries. You can send your queries to shahnaz_press@yahoo.co.in

I have never used shampoo. I wash my hair only with shikakai. Can I ...
Profiles

Waiting for the moon
Soha Ali Khan says that acting is not a dumb profession


A ‘Master’ returns
Former child star Tinku is back in the reckoning after Jodi No 1
Television

Cablewala
Madhuri Dixit is said to be the most sensational dancer ever in modern Hindi cinema. There was nobody who could dance like Madhuri in Bollywood till she got married and settled in America. Now she makes a comeback with Yash Raj Films’ ...
From telly screen to silver screen
TV artiste Prem is the rising star of celluloid
Targeting youth
In Tamil television, there is a rush to create the right mix for successful serials. At a time when women-oriented serials ruled, Vijay TV’s teenage school story “Kana Kaanum Kaalangal” broke the myth and suddenly television ...
Lataji on talent show
Finally, the legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar made an appearance on a music talent show “Star Voice of India”, on Star Plus, last Saturday. She gave away the winner’s trophy. Commenting on the legendary singer’s presence ...
Travel

ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
Beauty at its best
Where there’s water and verdure, says SOMA BASU


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