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Harry Potter, Enid Blyton, Tintin...
Come summer holidays, and kids pick up storybooks. But, are the city libraries offering them the right choice? SMITHA SADANANDAN finds out...
Health & Medicine
For that million-dollar smile...
With advances in surgical techniques, dental implants have become more reliable.
Lifestyle
Up above the world so high
Children from different parts of Kerala learn, at a flying camp in Nanguneri, what Jonathan Livingston Seagull did long ago: `There are no limits'.


Sunshine in your hair
The harsh summer sun can play havoc with your hair. Here are some do's and don'ts for the season.
Personality
Recipe for success
In a career spanning 50 years, Mrs. K. M. Mathew has taken the recipes of Kerala to glamourous dining rooms across the globe.
Epitome of grace
She spends hours experimenting with different ingredients before she finalises her recipes. Her interest does not stop with cookery. A prolific writer, she has written books on health and beauty. She has authored travelogues as well. It was her ...
Fellowship for dramatist
K. KOCHUNARAYANA Pillai, president of Rangaprabhath, has been given a national fellowship for training and research in children's theatre. The two-year fellowship is intended for "instilling values and inspiring leadership in children and ...
Issues
Women and society
A three-day discussion on women's issues, held in the city recently, stressed the point that no society can progress without empowerment of women.
Channel wars
With Asianet Satellite Communications waging war against The One Alliance group of Sony Entertainment Television (SET) over a hike in rates, the viewers are forced to take a break...
Jewish songs in Malayalam
A New York anthropologist and a Malayalam professor are on a mission to salvage the Malayalam songs sung by Jews.
Music
A Bhangra blast
The Pasha of Pop, Daler Mehndi, is back with another dose of Punjabi sounds.
A feast for `western' buffs
THE CHASE through the sagebrush. The cattle drive across the endless prairie. The saloon brawl. The shootout on Main Street. The ambush in the canyon. The eleventh hour rescue by the cavalry. The square dance in the frontier fort. The Western ...
Shopping
Solar lamps
SOLAR LAMPS are available at Biotech, the nodal agency of the Department of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, here. A subsidy of Rs. 5,500 is being offered for the 'solar home lighting system' that costs Rs. ...
Events
Calling the shots
`Film and Female', a 60-day workshop for women on documentary and short filmmaking, promises to give Kerala a few women directors.

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