No place for Jill on the hill !
Alka Sharma
SO Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water... how romantic! The hill must have seemed that much greener, their pail that much lighter for their holding hands.

Make others laugh, laugh at yourself
Niti Paul Mehta
HUMOUR, according to the dictionary, means "a comic quality causing amusement. (It is) the faculty of perceiving, appreciating or expressing what is amusing or comical... "Humour", continues the Random House Dictionary of English Language, "consists principally in the recognition and expression of incongruities or peculiarities present in a situation or character.

Walking your way to good health
V.S. Mahajan
WALKING as a form of exercise, helps to offset the disadvantages of fast-paced lifestyles. As such, we stand to benefit if we walk on a regular basis.

Where every villager is an artist
Tina Solanki
ABOUT 20 minutes by road from the temple town of Puri, in Orissa, lies a unique village surrounded by thick groves of coconut palm and betel-nut trees. Rows of houses run parallel to the banks of the Bhargabi river, overlooking four tiny temples dedicated to Lord Krishna and one to the village deity, Bhuasini. Welcome to Raghurajpur, India’s only village where everybody is an artist.

In a class by itself!
K.K. Khullar
MORE sinned against than sinning, the middle class of India has been praised and penalised simultaneously for the same reasons and by the same critics. There is no term in Indian dictionary which is more used, misused and even abused than our great ‘middle class’ which has not been defined anywhere in India’s long history from Indus Valley to Narbada Sarovar Dam.

Real women don’t break rules, they bend them!
Vimla Patil
A film distribution company, idream, which came into the limelight recently for Revathy’s directorial venture Mitr — My Friend, is in the news again. Promoting one more dream of women, it will release Gurinder Chadha’s new film Bend It Like Beckham in India this summer.

ON THE SANDS OF TIME — 1983
The year of path-breaking films
M. L. Dhawan
*GOVIND NIHALANI’S Ardh Satya brings to the fore the gangster-politician-police nexus. Anant Welankar (Om Puri) — an honest cop is outraged when Rama Shetty (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) — a Mafia don and politician — rings up someone in power and gets his men whom Welankar has arrested, released. During interrogation by Welankar, a petty thief dies in police custody.