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Season of music
Come December, and Chennai wakes up to the strains of classical music. The city is absorbed in this annual celebration of melody.


Extraordinary ability
Unlike most other prodigies, Shakuntala's abilities did not wane with age.
Changing a way of life
Hivre Bazar is an example of what the people as a community can achieve.
Asoka
The years of Asoka's (304 B.C. - 232 B.C.) reign saw great progress in India.
Dance and music
Passing out ceremonies are often times of great pageantry and splendour. And the passing out ceremony of volunteer women sailors at the Welisara Naval Base in Colombo held recently was no exception. Sri Lankan Naval drummers demonstrated their ...
Techie Taffy
This time it is back to Internet security and expert Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, Symantec India, says: Use an Internet security solution that combines antivirus, firewall and intrusion detection for maximum protection against malicious ...
H0H 0H0!
It's the season of Christmas and the Canadian post offices are flooded with letters to Santa Claus.
Cranach's paintings
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Africa) issued a set of four stamps for Christmas in 1972. The denominations were of 1,3,15 and 25 Pesetas. 1972 was the quincentenary year of the German painter Lucas Cranach. Honouring the painter, the stamps ...
New on the rack
Are you sitting comfortably in your nice modern pants? If so, you can be grateful that you're not wearing any of the peculiar, pioneering or painful pants contained in this book. Join Sir Horatio Snaptwang on a tour of his Museum of Pantalogy ...
Sliver of light
The shrill "tititit-tititit" from outside was distracting and Sowmya could not help but be drawn to the noise.
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