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We know what you’re doing this summer
Forget done-to-death holiday spots. Chennai-ites are booking themselves to exotic destinations to beat the heat, says DIVYA KUMAR
Profiles

Hot and happening
Channel V’s VJ Pia gives an insight into Season 5 of the channel’s ‘Get Gorgeous’


Furniture that works
Design leader Marc Fong speaks on creativity and his Indian inspiration
Gender

WHAT WOMEN WANT
Empty Nest Syndrome
Empty-nest syndrome encapsulates the feelings of sadness and loss that many women experience when their children no longer live with them. Confronting an empty nest requires enormous re-organisation. It means trying to rearrange the very architecture of your life, your identity and your connection to someone you love. No matter how sad women feel, they want to make it easy for children to go away and assure them that they’ll be all right. We spoke to mothers, a daughter and a psychologist on concrete ways to take charge of the transition, instead of just letting it happen.
Harassed husbands?
In an ego-shattering exercise “harassed husbands” are out “demanding justice”, says GEETA PADMANABHAN
Just joking

During the wedding rehearsal, the groom approached the minister with an unusual offer. “Look, I’ll give you $100 if you’ll change the wedding vows. When you get to me and the part where I’m to promise to ‘love, ...


The Mush Register

He has ungrudgingly supported me in all my work. It is not just emotional and psychological support. Whenever I take on any challenging medical project, he contributes to its growth. Years ago, when I embarked on a work that involved ...
Music

Chords & Notes
There’s a boom in the music industry. Particularly in the genre of fusion, a lot of cross-cultural experiments are being done, not just in terms of borrowing musical idioms, but collaborating with Western musicians and ideas. “Into ...


Could it be magic?
The unsung king of romantic pop
Food

Just chill
Cool off on hot days with these refreshing drinks
Books

Looking inward
Shinie Antony pens her latest novel on a young man’s solitude
Travel

It’s happy hours
Travel the world sipping Jamaican Rum, Belgium Beer and Tequila
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