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Back to the natural milky way
Breast-feeding has been a successful campaign in the State with Kerala rated as `Baby Friendly'. VIDHU JOHN finds that doctors see no reason for let up in the efforts made towards this cause. Tomorrow is World Breast-Feeding Day.
Pets Care

She spells hope and happiness
Lakshmikutty, a pet parrot that entered the home of a hapless couple, quite by accident, has brought cheer to their lives. T.K. SADASIVAN narrates this heart-warming tale.
Books

Social history of emotions
Here Comes Papa, (Colonialism and the Transformation of Matriliny in Kerala, Malabar c.1850-1940) G. Arunima, Orient Longman Rs. 450 THIS BOOK is really serious anthropological history. It explores nine, sad, declining, decades of the ...
Arts & Crafts

An art school comes of age
SHASHI WARRIER is conscious of the magnitude of his task. Within his reach are priceless portraits and paintings made by celebrated artists, Ravi Varma, Shekhar Warrier and Ram Warrier (no relatives of his) amongst the many others. Cautiously he ...
Cinema

`Cinemala' is ten, alive and kicking
DIANA SYLVESTER would have been just part of statistics that record the `brain drain' brigade from India to the U.S., had she stayed back. But this plucky girl came back, after the course in media communications, to an uncertain employment market ...


Of gentlemen officers
EVEN AS the afternoon gets weaker, casting pale shadows on the lush green paddy fields and on the muddy road that runs in between, action goes on, unabated. It is the location of director Lal Jose's new Malayalam film `Pattalam.' After the shoots ...
Music

Vocal flexibility
DELHI MUTHUKUMARAN, a qualified chartered accountant by profession and disciple of T.R.Subramaniom, had very little to offer, in terms of creativity and innovation, in his concert at the Poornathrayeesa Sangeeta Sabha. A singe tempo rendition ...
Viva returns - reloaded!
EXACTLY A year ago, five girls were handpicked from different corners of the country and were groomed to become 'pop stars'. Anushka, Mahua, Neha, Pratichee and Seema called themselves Viva. Their debut self-titled album did wonders to their ...
Sport

Scorpions, ten and going strong
At a time when many big clubs find the going tough, one little club in Tripunithura, the Scorpions, has managed to chart a winning course in the Ernakulam District Cricket League Championship. K.PRADEEP profiles the club which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
Showbitz

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 ...
Green Notes

The Yellow Elder
J.S. GAMBLE, mentions two specimens of Tecoma Stans Linn in his Manual of Indian Timbers (1881) — one from the Dehra Dun Forest School and, the other, from the Agri-Horticultural Gardens, Madras, now the Woodlands drive-in hotel. The ...
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