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Greatness of 'G' lies buried in pettiness
It will be 25 years since the Great `G' died, on Sunday. But does Kochi remember Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup at all? The city where he lived has not given him his due, unfortunately. K. PRADEEP brings back memories of the sensitive poet-teacher-Rajya Sabha member, who has no fitting memorial here.
Health & Medicine
The exotic fruit
The exotic strawberries are not really berries but a rich source of Vitamin C.
Arts & Crafts
A tribute to master authors
CHARACTERS LEAP out of scripts of yore, begging to be portrayed. A village boy's diffidence, as he makes his first trip to town, is seized by a master artist to be forever fastened on canvas. There's a mystique that Malayalam writers Vaikom ...
Personality
Kunjumon has a way with snakes
Snakes don't scare Kunjumon, for he has caught many of them, including King Cobras. While K. BALAKRISHNAN was interviewing him on this score, there came a call to catch a King Cobra. Kunjumon, of course, rose to the occasion, at Thattekkad.


Grand old man of Kerala sports
A COUPLE of decades ago, Thursdays often used to be tense days for sports officials in Kerala. For a hard-hitting little column in the Indian Express made them wince in embarrassment. "Will it be our turn to face the music? Sports ...
Fashion
Smooth solutions
Here are the common methods to do away with unwanted hair.
Music
Disciplined effort
A NOTICEABLE trait in many upcoming vocalists is their failure to etch the raga edifices clearly and render the compositions doing justice to their content. This is basically because of the lack of proper training and also due to the absence of ...
Sport
We've found the highway to the sky
After last season's disaster, Kerala cricket has remarkably climbed out of the rut with its success in the Plate Group this season. STAN RAYAN dwells on the dream run to the Elite Group.
Showbitz
Rahul Bose triumphs
IT WAS an unusually emotional Rahul Bose who informed us that his directorial debut "Everybody Says I'm Fine" had triumphed at the Palm Springs Festival. Said Rahul, "Can you believe it! My film is the first runner-up in category for the John ...
Anil Kapoor as Kalicharan
MANY YEARS ago, Subhash Ghai made "Kalicharan" with Shatrughan Sinha in the lead. Now it is Anil Kapoor's turn to star in a film called "Kalicharan". "Not quite," corrects Kapoor, "The title is A.K short for Allwyn Kalicharan." "Allwyn ...
'Mast' team on stage
WHO WOULD have thought it possible that one day Akshay Kumar and Raveena Tandon would actually get together again to perform on stage? But the seemingly impossible happened. The people of Muscat were in for a surprise when the two stars came ...
Enter junior Sivaji
WHEN PRABHU entered the film industry, Sivaji's fans were more than happy for at least one of his children had stepped into the great father's shoes. Now it is the turn of the legendary actor's grandson, R.G Dhusyanth (Ramkumar's son) to hit the ...
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