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Prime time tragedy
Telugu serials have monopolised many a housewife's time and attention. These major drawing room entertainers however, fail to promote any positive attitudes among its viewers, says G. MANJULA KUMAR.
Health
Hearty service
Members of the `Heart Doctors', an NGO from Greece travel around the world treating the sick and providing for the underprivileged. They recently organised medical camps in some `mandals' of Medak District.
Fitness
Use treadmill imaginatively
The treadmill serves many purposes. One can orbit the globe, improve balance, posture and gait.
Lifestyle
The home cabinet guide
Glasses... There are specific glasses traditionally used for serving specific drinks. For instance, stemmed glassware is not used when the drink is served with ice. Martini is stirred with ice and strained into a stemmed glass so that the ...
Personality
Displaying high spirits
She conducts workshops, designs pubs and heads an academy of bartending. Meet Shatbhi Basu, the person who spreads high spirits.
Fashion
Prints are calling
Style charts indicate a high summer silhouette with macro, high-energy florals thrown across a pure, perfectly simple line.
Cinema
"I would like to remake Deewar"
With `Satta', Madhur Bhandarkar projects the female protagonist as the selling point of his film yet again.


Head bangers' ball
THERE IS one place a vampire will never feel out of place - at a rock concert. A fact that the vampire Lestat wakes up to after a short 200-year nap. He goes to sleep when he realises that the world is just not so cool and wakes up to a ...
Music
It's cheers all the way
The extensive workshop on bartending held here recently was well attended by professionals and amateurs alike.
Showbitz
MJ in a Telugu film
UNBELIEVABLE YOU think. And before you go green on Laya, take a closer look! It is not MJ, but our own King look-alike Munna Kaseri also known as `Hyderabad Michael Jackson, who sports a remarkable resemblance with the `bad' man. But the ...
Comedy of relationships
A BROTHER-sister duo married to a sister-brother pair is enough to create a comedy of sorts. And with each of them trying to assert their superiority over the other with a frequent change in the definition of their relations - according to ...
Junk and Tusshar
ARE YOU tired of stars unctuously saying how they prefer simple home cooked food? How dal chawal is their favourite dish? All who worship at the altar of fast food, can look up to their newest patron saint - Tusshar Kapur. Jeetu's lad ...
Weight and watch Aamir
AAMIR KHAN has put on weight and it is not because of the khushi of the Padma Shri or the gham of the breakup of his marriage. It is because Mr Perfection has quit smoking. He is taking the looooong break between films (Dil ...
Birthday bash
IN SUPER-high heels and an equally super-short dress, Kim Sharma celebrated her birthday recently in the company of her select `jing-bang' at Bandra hot-spot `Onyx'. At the party, while Jackie Shroff gave her umpteen hugs at midnight, Shekhar ...
Bells for Batra belle
MADHURI DIXIT is single no more. Come February and Pooja Batra will give her company. The leggy beauty is all set to tie the knot to Dr Sonu Ahluwalia, a US-based surgeon. Grand and elaborate preparations have already started for the wedding, ...
Om Puri as King Lear
OM PURI continues to enjoy international fame. He plays King Lear in a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, for a British Production. Describing his role, Puri says that he plays a business tycoon with three daughters. Parminder ...
Green Notes
Ferry flowers
With flowers enclosed in boat shaped bracts, Boat Lily is a fascinating indoor plant, ideal for warm climes.
Events
A starry effect
A jam-packed L.B. Stadium glittered on Sunday with about 25,000 people thronging the field to have a date with stars in a star-studded cricket match. SOUVIK CHOWDHURY reports.
Entertainment
Seizing power
Ravishing Raveena bares it all in an excusive tête-à-tête.

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