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Absolute-ly cool

Goodbye Madras, Hello Chennai. For, hip Absolute, at the edgy Pod hotel, is the face of a fast emerging new land of chilled Dom Perignon and skilfully-seared foie gras. Where people drink wine more expensive than their kanjeevarams. Where the ...
Sport

Play cricket online

Presino.com launches “Desi ya Videsi”, a fantasy cricket game, based on ongoing India-England Series. Each user can pick a playing eleven before every India — England ODI. It allows you to pick your team from three different ...
Columns

Colours of compassion
Arpana Caur on what makes her paintings serene


YOUR DAY
At a multi-brand boutique

Featuring Kalakriti of Kolkata, Cottons of Jaipur and other designers from Baroda, Delhi, Mumbai, etc.

Venue: Saumya, Gee Gee Plaza, 1, Wheatcrofts Road, Nungambakkam

Date: From ...


A photography exhibition

That celebrates children. Captured through the lens of Shaju John and Joel Suganth. The works focus on children, capturing their happiness, innocence, pain and hope.

For details, call 28279803 or 28271477.

Venue: ...


Just joking

One day at a busy airport, passengers were waiting for the cockpit crew to show up. The pilot and co-pilot finally appear in the rear of the plane, and begin walking up to the cockpit through the centre aisle. Both appear to be blind. The ...


From the diary
From November 20, Srijati Instituite of Fashion Technology, 16/15, Third Cross Street, Kasturba Nagar, Adyar, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

SIFT conducts a workshop on aari embroidery, badla and patta chitra.

For ...


WORK PAD
Sense and simplicity
K Pandia Rajan and Lata Rajan’s office in Ma Foi proves that you don’t need a large room to realise dreams
SHOWBITZ
Debut season

Actor Lilette Dubey’s younger daughter Ira follows in her mom’s footsteps. The 24-year-old makes her debut on the big screen with an English language film — “The President is Coming”. “It’s a comedy ...


On track

Debutant Anurag Singh’s next film with Shahid Kapoor and Rani Mukherjee under the YashRaj banner was under a cloud all of last fortnight when rumours about it being shelved arose from all quarters. Apparently, the film revolves around ...


Daughter’s Day

Daughter’s Day... or week, it looks like. Another daughter was doing her dad proud. We are talking about Nandana Sen. Amartya Sen’s daughter got a fabulous response for her film “Rang Rasiya”, which was premiered at the ...
Food

Rural flavours
Here’s your chance to feast on everything from Kappu Vada to Avalakkai Rasayana


Chinese treat
The Chinese Winter Festival is on at China Town
Cinema

The life of a maestro
“Antardhwani” profiles the life of Pandit Shivkumar Sharma
Music

Tradition in full flow
Girija Devi’s concert showed why the thumri needs to be kept alive
Television

Real life stories
A new serial that focusses on incidents that impact society
Filmy takes
After a good one year, Sony PIX zeroed in on Neha Sareen and Ira Dubey to anchor ‘Chicks on Flicks’
Arts And Entertainment

Where East and West meet
ARTS With seasoned international faculty, the KM Conservatory opens a new chapter in the teaching of western classical music
Travel

Magnificence in stone factfile
Egypt Kausalya Santhanam goes pyramid hopping and returns amazed by their enduring appeal
TRAVEL TIPS
Climb to the top
Trekking is a great way to commune with Nature. Follow some basic rules to make the most of it
My kind of place

Of quiet countryside and buzzing cities, that’s London. I always return cheerful and energised from a trip. There are so many places to see, if you are a curious tourist. There are streets after streets of stores and boutiques, if you ...


Travel quip

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ...


On the road to friendship
A road trip can open up so many possibilities for people to bond with each other, writes Bhargavi Guha
INSIDE STORY
A forgotten fort
Bhongir resonates with stories of the dynasties that ruled it
Events

More on music
A workshop by Madhav Chari and Anil Srinivasan
DJ delights!
Listen to DJs as they straddle various genres from rock to desi
Madras Miscellany


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