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Old blocks, new paths
They are chips off the old blocks, yet carving their own niches, Proof that mamma's boys and daddy's girls aren't always averse to putting in the hard mileage.
Of moon moth, hope and unseeing eyes
Two relationships lie at the core of Ru Freeman’s debut novel. One is fairly simple and quite universal — the passionate, selfless love of a mother for her children and the strength that it brings.
Creation, a function of science, religion
For about 2,500 years, scientists have been attempting to understand the nature of the universe and the origin of life as we know it.
Monetary wealth can’t guarantee happiness
It is a truism that no one is happy. We are all unhappy, but in varying degrees.
City of temples
Famous ghats, playing host to equally popular temples is what Varanasi is all about.
A sea of tulips in Holland’s spectacular spring gardens
sharath ahuja
As the bus wound its way towards Keukenhof, in the heart of Holland’s tulip land, a spectacular sight unfolded — stretching for miles on end were tulips in vibrant colours of the rainbow,
Destiny decides
The reason I love this painting so much is because it sold twice but at the last minute the buyers couldn’t take it for some reason. I feel it must have been destined to come home. The more I look at it the more I like it.
Hang Man is back in a bloodthirsty mode
Alice in Wonderland is suddenly on the ‘must read again’ list courtesy Johnny Depp, where once again he plays a character with personality traits that give purpose to the world of psychiatry.
Fundamentals
Advertising Club Madras is organising its very popular annual quiz business quiz in Chennai on April 10. Open to corporate teams of two (mixed teams allowed) Venue: Samavesh Hall, Hotel Savera, Dr Radhakrishnan Salai.
Fundamentals
Hindi movies have produced some of India’s most memorable music. This week’s theme is on stories behind some of these classics.
‘I went in walking, came out disabled’
A tumour was discovered inside my spine when I was about eight years old, after I complained of numbness in my legs.
Rebel by birth, Kalpana still won’t marry Bhupen
I have always been the rebel. I fell in love with Bhupen Da (singer Bhupen Hazarika) when I was 17 and he was 45. I ran away from home to marry him.
And the Fake IPL Player is...
I have a disclosure to make right off the bat. I have known the Fake IPL Player (FIP) for several years.
A lithe dancer with steely resolve
The book Rukmini Devi — A Life is a tribute by a “bhakta” to her guru. While essaying Rukmini Devi’s determination, courage, vision and the ability to learn and absorb, it encapsulates the growth of the Theosophical movement in India and of the contr
Look back with happiness
I feel like the words in the Ogden Nash’s verse for Tchaikovsky's Nut Cracker Suite, “I don’t want to work today.”
Major tamasha
Jab-jab Indian television ka itihaas likha jayega, tab-tab March 2010 ko salaam bajaya jayega.
- Desam to contest Telangana bypolls
- Priest held for raping mentally challenged woman
- City boy tops GATE with 99.99 percentile
- T’wood blamed for piracy
- City IIT-C boy dies on birthday
- Maya gets another currency garland
- BJP leader says cows exhale oxygen
DC blogs
- By Cho Ramaswamy
- By Meera Kandasamy
- By Gayatri Reddy
- By S.N. Raja
- By Venkatapathy Raju
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