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Thereby hangs a TALE
As you caterpillar your way along the jammed roads of the city, you often wonder why those huge unfinished buildings, bang in its heart, have been there for ages. VINAYAN tells you why.

Food For Thought

Purple delight
THE DARK purple brinjal hails from Assam and Myanmar, but the earliest evidence of its cultivation is from 2000 BC in north-western India. The fruit, a berry, was common in Chinese cuisine by 300 AD, and the first written account of it anywhere ...

Heritage

Setting new highs
Charminar in "Okkadu" and now Madurai Meenakshi temple in "Arjun", perhaps the largest set in South India... gigantic sets are in vogue,writes RADHIKA RAJAMANI

Personality

Censor Board's NEW face
Anupam Kher wants to make a difference to the quality of entertainment on the small and big screen

Cinema

No surprises in this `khel'
GENERALLY FILMS evoke some sort of emotion in us, be it positive or negative. But rarely a movie leaves us passive. `Khel', the debut film of editor-turned-director Yusuf Khan, is one such rarity that makes us mentally inert, without giving one ...

Sport

A thriller till the tape
It was not just `Schumi, Schumi' all the time in the Formula One circuit, which wound up in Japan this week. The others in the circuit are catching up with Michael Schumacher, which is very good news for the sport, says VIJAY GEORGE

Land & People

Almost a replica
FROM STATUES, figurines, pillars, corridors to shlokas inscribed on the walls... the set has it all. A variety of materials like plaster of Paris, plywood, fibreglass, gunny and gada have been used to create the set. The ...

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