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Living dangerously
Apart from having a risky job, firemen in Chennai also have to contend with inaccessible streets, violation of fire safety norms in buildings, lack of awareness, inadequate equipment and mob fury, writes PRINCE FREDERICK.


Voice Your Views
Your response to the "Voice Your Views" column has been overwhelming. Here is another opportunity to express your thoughts on issues concerning the city. The topic for the next "Voice Your Views" column scheduled for April 30, 2003, is ...
Arts & Crafts
Pretty products in paper
THE SIPA Craft Link's exhibition-cum-sale of `Handmade Paper Stationery and Complimentaries' seems perfectly designed to get people back to the art of writing — chits, notes, invitations, letters, etc. And for ecologically sensitive people, ...
Personality
Service, her way of life
For the past three decades, Savithri Vaithi has been relentlessly working for the cause of the aged. Today, Vishranthi is much more than a old age home and is her past, present and future...
Webware
For a bright future
Non-conventional and techno-oriented, FutureSchools aims to help students face challenges of the future. The preliminary rounds of Cyber Surfari, a national competition for the children conveyed this clearly.
Information Technology
Unwire the Web
The Government's legalising of `WiFi', coupled with Intel's new Centrino technology for Net-enabled notebooks promises a new era of untethered Internet access for net users.
Music
Chords & Notes
"AS I look back 50 years, I find it difficult to believe that I have been around for 50 years," writes Pandit Jasraj, as an introduction to "Golden Voice Golden Years" (Music Today, Rs. 310), compilation of songs written, composed and sung by the ...
Eating Out
Festive flavours
Tamilnattu Sapaadu Pandigai at the Southern Spice, Taj Coromandel, to celebrate Tamil New Year, is an ordinary spread but the traditional taste is intact.
Showbitz
For a break
EARLIER THIS month, Karisma Kapoor had a concert in Amsterdam with Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Mahima Chowdhary. So Kareena and mom Babita took off to London for a three-day impromptu vacation. "We just shopped and shopped until we dropped, and ...
Exciting roles
AFTER THE success of "Ek aur ek gyarah," Sanjay Dutt will team up with David Dhawan again. "We are yet to zero in on the script and other details," says Sanjay while shooting for Mani Shankar's "Rudraksha". As for Sanjay Gupta, after "Kaante", ...
No party
FRIENDS AND colleagues were disappointed when they rang up Jaya Bachchan on her birthday on Tuesday. The two secretaries at the Bachchans' residence `Jalsa' were busy taking down the names of every single person who called to wish the lady of the ...
Antara plays Madhuri
ANTARA MALI must be on cloud nine! She is in Ram Gopal Varma's next film too. So what, one would ask? Antara's excitement lies not just in bagging the film but being selected to play Madhuri Dixit! Varma's film, "Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti ...
Different pitch
IF AZHARUDDIN is busy producing films and small screen soaps, Ajay Jadeja is now getting used to putting on the grease paint to tap his "dormant" acting talent. Once a popular player in the Indian cricket team, Ajay had declined quite a few ...
Blowing hot and cold
THOSE 41 threatening calls from Salman Khan to Vivek Oberoi have rocked Bollywood for quite a while, what with a section of the media carrying reactions from several professionals in the field almost for a week. Raging tempers saw Sanjay Leela ...
Events
Healing through meditation
For the select gathering that recently heard the spiritual healer, Sri Paramahamsa Nityananda Swami of Dyanapeetam, Bangalore, it was indeed an enlightening evening.
Go camping in Switzerland
CREAMY, DELICIOUS, melt-in-your-mouth Swiss chocolate would probably melt in the Indian summer heat. But the perfect way to get to that chocolate would be to spend a week or two in the land of Lindt and Nestle with a little help from Les Elfes, ...
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