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RWH... soon a reality
With the Government's ordinance making rainwater harvesting mandatory in buildings, old or new, before August 31, Chennai-ites can approach several agencies who are involved in installing the structures. T. RAMAKRISHNAN writes...
Pets Care

Food for your pet
HAVING PETS is much easier today given the wide range of commercial pet foods available. They have been formulated after extensive research, taking into account the dog's nutritional needs and therefore form a very balanced meal. Vegetarian ...
Lifestyle

Aromatic route to beauty
GET A hint of holistic healing by inhaling the exotic fragrance of flowers and herbs — this is the essence of aromatherapy. When everything old is the order of the day, can health and beauty care be left behind? Being an ancient curative ...
Arts & Crafts

Lighting their lives
WHAT SETS apart Inner Light, a candle shop located in Spencer Plaza, from its counterparts is the involvement of people who are mentally challenged in production of candles. The shop is owned by Bethel Rehabilitation Centre, a unit of Dr. ...


Fresh interpretation
At the "Reclaimed: Recycling in Contemporary British Craft and Design" exhibition, on show till August 8 at the Forum Art Gallery, the diverse approaches speak of imagination in presenting the original idea in a new form.
Issues

Where learning is fun
The Montessori system of education is not confined to books and pencils. Children are encouraged to explore and learn through experience.
Webware

Mail... in a jiffy
The latest version of the popular MSN Messenger sports a cool new avatar and provides lots of tools for personalisation.
Eating Out

Scrumptious sizzlers
A FEW showers and we Chennai-ites have again proved how stoic we are. We can take the mess and confusion and still look up at the sky thankfully for the rain! I wanted to celebrate the rain with some sizzlers. Once the decision on sizzlers was ...
Showbitz

Costly mistakes
NOTHING SEEMS to have gone well with Sooraj Barjatya's "Main Prem Ki Deewani Hoon". Not a typical Barjatya film, its struggle at the box-office can be attributed to more than one reason. Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor have been criticised for ...
New-found friend?
SO MANY things are being said about Lara Dutta — Bipasha Basu would lose to her in the race; Dutta would be the best replacement for Zeenat Aman; she's Abhishek's new friend... After all those praises showered on the former beauty queen ...
Fashion statements...
AS MODELS from all over the country sashayed the ramps to exhibit the best of design, texture and colour at the Lakme India Fashion Week, top-notch designers too hogged their share of the limelight. Ironically, however, it was the "no colour ...
Casual elegance
AS FASHION is in the air now with the Lakme India Fashion Week, another man who made people sit up in awe was Rohit Bal. We have heard of cross-over films, but Rohit's cross-over segment with lungis was something to reckon with. Rohit's boys sure ...
Entertainment

Magic with a message
Rajesh Fernando is of the belief that one can inculcate values using the medium of magic. A profile of the magician, who was in the city recently.
Madras Miscellany

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