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Bringing to light (06 November 12:00) |
| Muslim women in India today are really at the bottom of the heap — both as Muslims and as women, they get the shorter end of the stick. Education is the only way to improve their lot,” s... |
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Return of the dragon (06 November 12:00) |
| That Chennai’s most authentic Chinese restaurant — The Golden Dragon at Taj Coromandel — has been missed was obvious from the packed dining hall. It was barely a week since this trendi... |
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Its yoga baby (06 November 12:00) |
| Infants are no longer off-limits for fitness regimens, as postnatal classes under the titles `Mom and Baby Yoga' and `Yoga Babies' see a surge in popularity, especially in the Western Infan... |
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Mughals on the big stage (06 November 12:00) |
| On the sprawling ground adjoining the Grand Hyatt at Kalina, Mumbai, one could spot the Qutub Minar, the red sandstone Agra Fort, and pristine-white marble corridors culminating in splendid,... |
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Off the wall (06 November 12:00) |
| Dubai’s airport seems to be built in the middle of a shopping mall! You land at the airport, go through the rigmarole of security check, take the escalator up and you are bang in the middl... |
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Cinefan with Dhrupad overtones (06 November 12:00) |
| An afternoon at Osian’s Cinefan, with people making a beeline for the main auditorium would have meant, any other year, a big-ticket film. But the eleventh edition of the festival, which c... |
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Fruit from Kashmirs sweet waters (30 October 12:00) |
| Famed for its apples, cherries, peaches and plums, Kashmir is now turning into a major producer of the less-known water chestnut.As the name indicates, this small rectangular fruit grows wil... |
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Making waves (30 October 12:00) |
| Luxury-taxi driver Gusti Sarwa is happy. After a brief slowdown, international travellers are thronging Bali again. The ‘Bali Bombing’ in 2002 and another attack in 2005, which had affec... |
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Mango imprint (30 October 12:00) |
| Shoppers trawling the brand stores or looking for high-on-style, low-on-cost accessories at Mumbai’s most-expensive shopping strip, Linking Road in Bandra, now have a great place to rest t... |
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Swim towards health (30 October 12:00) |
| I’m 5 ft 6 inches tall and weigh 63 kg. I have a small belly. My hands and shoulders are thin. I plan to swim daily and exercise at home (not too keen on gymming). Please advise how to rem... |
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Pillar to post office (30 October 12:00) |
| Early one Sunday morning our internet went out, and we waited till the telephone exchange reopened on Tuesday to record a complaint. They would send the broadband engineer right away, they s... |
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Drive the world over (30 October 12:00) |
| Hiring chauffeur-driven cars abroad is pretty expensive. But renting a car and driving it yourself is quite cheap. Besides, it makes the entire journey extremely flexible and far more enjoya... |
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Did the sale click (30 October 12:00) |
| “In the future, there will not be any significant websites that do not contain the ‘call me now’ capability. The question is: How significant do you want your website to “In the fut... |
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Restored pride (23 October 12:00) |
| Every day is a challenge, and I look forward to meeting it,” says Brinda Somaya. The principal architect of Somaya & Kalappa Consultants for the last two decades, she has serviced corporat... |
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Space for a high achiever (23 October 12:00) |
| She is the first woman to head a vital arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation in its 50 years of existence. Far from the glamour of satellite launches, Geeta Varadan, has silently bee... |
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It rose against hunger (23 October 12:00) |
| Jahan me jaha tak jagah paiye, Imarat banatey chaley jaiye. (Wherever you find space, keep Jahan me jaha tak jagah paiye, Imarat banatey chaley jaiye. (Wherever you find space, keep |
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in conceivable (23 October 12:00) |
| Grouped in front of a computer, their eyes transfixed on the screen, the Israeli men engage in an animated conversation. They have a wide range to choose from - women of Caucasian, Black, As... |
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Haute green platter (23 October 12:00) |
| A great meal is a journey that returns you to sources of pleasure you may have forgotten and takes you to places you haven’t been before. A great meal is a journey that returns you to sou... |
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Nine faces of the India story (23 October 12:00) |
| His quest was to seek out the sacred in modern India and the idea of the book Nine Lives (Bloomsbury) was conceived on a clear Himalayan morning 16 years ago as William Dalrymple trekked up ... |
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Fitness Fusion (23 October 12:00) |
| Tired of pounding in gyms, hammering on treadmills and hauling weights - try the hottest trend in fitness. Discovery Travel & Living’s new series, Fitness Fusion, will have you trim your w... |
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Common earthy good (16 October 12:00) |
| When Reshma Anand undertook a 4-month road trip across rural India, stopping at small towns to chat with village women operating tiny home-grown businesses, it changed the course of her life... |
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On a whirl (16 October 12:00) |
| Cappadocia in Turkey has no comparisons; simply put, it seems like a unique planet on its own. Looking back at my visit to Cappadocia, there are a few things that have got etched in my mind.... |
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Short light break (16 October 12:00) |
| This Diwali weekend, Mumbaikars are heading to the nearest resort to celebrate, unwind and come back recharged. And they are indeed spoilt for choice.For those who want the hills, there’s ... |
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No negativity! (16 October 12:00) |
| It is time to take a firm stand and say, “I will not allow myself to think negative thoughts.” We must stop being hurt, angry, confused and realise this liberating truth: Everything chan... |
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A place to call home (16 October 12:00) |
| Why should I leave? This is my home. I refuse to go anywhere else,” states Nasreen Bano, 42, assertively. A victim of the 1992-93 Mumbai riots and now a resident of Mankhurd’s Mandala se... |
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Paati food (16 October 12:00) |
| If you are an haute cuisine fan who thinks paati (grandma in Tamil) never knew of asparagus and courgettes, think again… she had gotten as far as baby corn and cauliflower — and this wit... |
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Voting in darkness (09 October 12:00) |
| Leela Bai Margale, a 40-year-old widow in Mugaon village of Pune district, Maharashtra, finds the lights of the grand Lavasa Lake City near Pune tantalising. Once the sun goes down, her vill... |
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Incredible! (09 October 12:00) |
| As the evening slowly dissolved into night and the boat made its way back to shore after a 90-minute ride on the Periyar lake in Thekkady, Kerala, we drank in the greenery, the silence, and ... |
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Brick and motor! (09 October 12:00) |
| It was drizzling lightly when we set out for the legendary race tracks of the world, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Unlike many other tracks, this Speedway is situated well inside the cit... |
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True Blue (09 October 12:00) |
| The results of Hindi cinema’s ventures into the global mart have been mixed. The only real successes in this sphere have been the Chopra-Johar rom-coms which are more about extended large-... |
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Serving up khana khazana (09 October 12:00) |
| It’s a simple formula — red plus green makes yellow. So, Yellow Chilli the restaurant it was. “A few years ago, I discovered the yellow chilli on the streets of Meerut, where my grandp... |
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Travel log (09 October 12:00) |
| The profile of Indian travellers visiting international destinations has changed and today many of them are able to take snap decisions and plan international travel within a few days, says ... |
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Devising safety (09 October 12:00) |
| How does a human body react when subjected to unfavourable conditions? How much can a CT scan of the brain reveal about the nature of an accident? Was the injury the result of not wearing a ... |
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Lend credence (02 October 12:00) |
| SKS Microfinance, says its founder Vikram Akula, is today the largest MFI in India and fourth largest in the world after Grameen, Asa and Brac. His relentless argument is that in order to re... |
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Pros all the way (02 October 12:00) |
| It is certainly a feeling of déjÀ vu… not just in one place or page. Over several pages of his remarkable book The Professional, MindTree’s Vice Chairman Subroto Bagchi gives you the ... |
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At home in Hannover (02 October 12:00) |
| The speedometer touched the 150-km mark several times before the taxi stopped at the corner building of the visibly residential Alte Dohrener Street. It was past 3 p.m. and Messequartetier H... |
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Not so fast! (02 October 12:00) |
| Imagine preserving food for over two years without using any preservatives or refrigeration! The brain behind this achievement was passing through Mumbai recently, and the occasion presented... |
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Glow of health (02 October 12:00) |
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The music in store (02 October 12:00) |
| Back in the Swinging Sixties, the Beatles famously used the sitar in their performance. The decades-old Rikhi Ram and Music Co in Delhi’s Connaught Place says it sold a sitar to none less ... |
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Thats her Vu (25 September 12:00) |
| Visitors walking into computer manufacturer Zenith’s corporate offices in Mumbai are likely to mistake the diminutive 27-year-old in smart threads as yet another upwardly mobile management... |
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Sea forts in the sun (25 September 12:00) |
| Sasan Gir is wrapped in late-evening smog, and whiffs of wood smoke waft through the air. As visibility is low, we stop at a roadside chaiwala and sit on charpoy, dipping biscuits in tea til... |
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Heritage or home (25 September 12:00) |
| The best part of leaving Palakkad is coming home again. When I purr up the quarry road towards the plantations and see the magnificent blue range rear up behind the trees, a snatch of Desh R... |
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Big Cat SOS (25 September 12:00) |
| Neither the Asia regional director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Grace Gabriel, nor well-known wildlife conservationist Judy Mills know of Ram, Sita, Lakshmi and seven others... |
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On thinning ice (25 September 12:00) |
| Ladakh can’t comprehend its mixed fortunes in ice hockey. In India, the game was first played in Shimla during the British times. But it fizzled out. Then in the 1980s, some say earlier, t... |
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Roadside saapad (25 September 12:00) |
| A heap of shredded cabbage and carrot that go into the rice or noodles in a huge cast-iron wok atop a high flame; coils of white dough waiting to be patted and fried into a parotha; idli and... |
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Mumbai towers (18 September 12:00) |
| From mill lands to malls and from shanties to skyscrapers, Mumbai’s skyline is changing. In just a matter of months, a string of 50-plus-storey buildings will tower up in the heart of the ... |
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Together they walk the talk (18 September 12:00) |
| As the festive season kicks off across India, the bazaar-cum-exhibition materialises across cities. Normally organised in a large space like a hotel banquet hall, a trade centre or open-air... |
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Truffle-hunt right here (18 September 12:00) |
| Balehonnur, a picturesque community in Karnataka’s coffee-growing Chikmagalur district, could be on the threshold of global epicurean fame with a local coffee plantation owner stumbling up... |
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Unearthing Xian (18 September 12:00) |
| I set out for China with a suitcase crammed with second-hand notions. That traditional religious and social mores had been steamrolled in the quest for modernity. That the shiny facades of B... |
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Slow dance in NY (18 September 12:00) |
| It’s a warm and humid summer night in New York City and we’re on our way back from dinner at a restaurant near Madison Avenue. Our car is in a parking lot several streets away. The even... |
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