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`Water, water nowhere'
The water battle is on. Suppliers of drinking water in the city are doing brisk business and bringing the water table down in the process. As more take to this lucrative business, prices are coming down. But how long will we have water trucks, if we do not conserve water, asks SUNIL NALIYATH
Health & Medicine
Super soccer
Football helps develop eye-foot coordination skills, builds up spatial abilities, teaches teamwork besides preventing childhood obesity.
Arts & Crafts
A `not bad' scene for art
The art exhibited at Kochi''s galleries are clear indicators of the State's immense talent and creativity. Roving around the city galleries, talking to the artists and assessing the works, SUNANDA KHANNA says that Kochi offers quality art at very se nsible prices.


Ganesha - the style icon
Ganesha is as much a fashion designer's delight as the artist or iconographer. Stylise your wardrobe with the image of Ganesha in various ways.
Issues
Lost in an alien land
U.S.-based Narika and Chennai-based PCVC have joined hands to provide help to Indian women in the U.S. facing domestic violence.
Music
MDR, mythical music maker
MDR was a different kind of musician in a different age. To him music was not a money-making skill. It was God given. On April 27, his fans and friends have got up a day-long function at Tripunithura to commemorate the 19th death anniversary of the m aestro.
Emotion-laden
THIRUVANGAD JAYARAMAN is not a glamorous vocalist who can ensnare any type of audience and send them into raptures through a pyrotechnical display on the stage. All the same he is the only vocalist who fills in the void created by the passing ...
Sport
Electric girls of Indian volleyball
A few psychological sessions and a small shift to Pala have helped KSEB brew up a winning formula. It is now brimming with confidence, says STAN RAYAN
Eating Out
Wait, are those beans poisoned?
The steaming plate of food sure looks inviting and healthy but lurking under it may be toxins which can harm you fatally. SWAPNA RAGHU-SANAND on the chemically treated foods, which are slow WMDs
Cuisine
Stay the cool way
Beat the heat with these summer coolers.
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 ...
Green Notes
Splash of colour
With its pink, white or cream flowers, oleander makes a pretty picture in a garden. What's more, the plant is easy to propagate.
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