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VIOLIN Town
Fiddling seems big business in Thripunithura, for this town has thrown up a good number of eminent and popular violinists, discovers K. PRADEEP.
Health & Medicine

Keep infection at bay
I am undergoing root canal treatment. Are frequent check-ups necessary after the treatment? Will the tooth decay if not properly maintained?.— T.S. Shridhar Dr.Vijailakshmi Acharya: After root ...
Face Facts

Flawless FACE
Here are tips to tackle dark circles under the eyes, which are attributed to heredity, lack of sleep, fatigue, stress and improper diet.
Fitness

Fitness RHYTHMS
Aerobic dance can be the best way to systematically exercise major muscle groups
Cinema

Happy Hariharan Pillai
LAST WEEK, an unlikely person was in attendance at the Kakkanad private bus stand. Someone who should be celebrating the 25th year since he last got into a bus as a passenger. In fact he has been into films for so many years now. That was ...
Information Technology

Losing out @ IT
The human face of mail, the postman, is a fading personality in the IT age. PRASANTH. M regrets the loss.
Music

Music can improve vocabulary
SCIENTISTS HAVE found an unexpected benefit of music lessons — they can boost word power. Children with music training had significantly better verbal memory than others, according to a recent study. The longer the training, the better the ...
Sport

World Cup without the FRILLS
The Women's World Cup currently on in the U.S. is a very quiet affair. The quietness is also a nice time for some sincere soul searching, says STAN RAYAN
Showbitz

On a new ground
HIS STINT with the camera and make-up started with "Palmolive da jawab nahin". All along, he has had a host of modelling assignments, and now we will soon see cricketer Kapil Dev in "CID", a serial on Sony Television. A brand ambassador for Sony, ...


The melody factor
INDIAN FILMS are known to thrive on songs. An array of mellifluousnumbers has even scored over average screenplays. While the music-and-dance sequences set our films apart from those of other countries, they also prove to be a bane at ...
Going places
THE MOVIE world of China will soon see an Indian creating musical wonders for them. Several countries have had their share of A.R. Rahman's melodies, and now we hear the Chinese too will soon get a chance to see the musician at work. Rahman's ...
Celluloid saga
WHEN JACKIE Shroff said he wouldn't mind taking up a good role for a full-length TV serial a few years ago, several scoffed at his idea, as the hero wasn't really short of film offers. Today, as we see the medium grow in reach and stature, we ...
Green Notes

For a flamboyant flourish
Bright sunlight helps the Bird of Paradise bloom and blossom better
Insite

Cybergames
Computer games have become one of the fastest growing sectors of the entertainment business
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