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When fun fizzles out
Come New Year and roads are taken over by drunken youngsters driving at dangerous speeds, breaking social norms and forgetting moral values. ELIZABETH ROY finds out why the revellers love to take risks. More

ART & CRAFTS
Weaving a unique tradition
"WHEN SOMETHING is beautiful, it is beautiful for all time," said Rukmini Devi, often. She was talking about Indian textiles, and South Indian saris, in particular. At a time when British India was flooded with garish mill-made saris from ... More


An ambience of space
B.O. SHAILESH'S installation titled "Body Surface" on the Living Wall of British Council is offered in four parts, necessitated by the door-openings on the wall. Shailesh has sourced pictures and sketches from his own stock, painting just a few ... More

MUSIC
Mesmerising faces
"God has made her for dancing,'' said an ecstatic viewer after watching Malavika Sarukkai at Bharat Kalachar. You could well understand the elation; in fact, you felt it yourself. It was an inspired performance dedicated to musician Meera ... More

LIFESTYLE
Exchanging goodwill, corporate style
The symptoms appear around mid-October. By November and December, the fever rages and suddenly, everyone seems to be carrying a gift. And when a `person with a parcel' (PWP) enters your block, your eyes automatically follow him. As you wait ... More

PERSONALITY
The drive to be different
"There is no such thing as creativity. Everything is there around us... just waiting to be perceived and recorded," says Bombay Chanakya, writer and director of stage plays and tele-serials. More
Life through his lens
FROM COVERING WEDDINGS and functions with his camera when he was barely 17 years old to becoming a professional cinematographer — the passion for photography took Madhu Thyagarajan all the way to Zeigen in Germany to pursue a course in ... More

MADRAS MISCELLANY
WEBWARE
A cyber union
A new operating system, Lindows coming in early 2002, may help PC users enjoy both Linux and Windows. More

EATING OUT
Pizza... desi style
A city within a city — that's how one can describe Anna Nagar. Not so long ago, it was a suburb in the wilderness. Today, it's a self-sufficient neighbourhood. And the latest addition to this is the new branch of Pizza Hut at C-43, II ... More

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