Fruit fallacies
Aradhika Sekhon
IN the sphere of nutrition, nothing is more misunderstood than the correct way to consume fruit. Most people do not know how to eat fruit properly. This means that they do not know when or how to eat fruit in order to get maximum benefit from it.

Pushing the frontiers of photography
Derek Bose
PRADEEP Chandra is out to put painters out of business. As a news photographer, he has occupied the pages of several prestigious publications for close to three decades. But now that his attention is turning to "soft pictures" and by printing them on canvas, he has left art connoisseurs plain confused.

"Sir, I do not kill elephants"
K.F. Rustamji
THE Madhya Pradesh Police was in the midst of a lucky spell in its dacoity campaign. Every month we brought down a gang, and morale was so high that I felt anything was possible for the men of this force. Yet when the chief minister asked me to send a squad to destroy the man-eaters of Bastar, I hesitated.

A singer who is here to stay
Chitleen. K. Sethi
MEETING Jasbir Jassi is like meeting in person, passion-for-music, itself. It’s like shaking hands with the inner turmoil of an artist who is craving to perfect himself....in all that he does. The painless effort with which Jasbir Jassi converses, the calm and poised exterior that he presents, belies the tireless and constant work that his mind, while making music, is engaged in.

‘Novelty is the name of the game’
Vimla Patil
"IT is a game of communication", says Simi Garewal, who conducted the two-part presentation on glamour girl Kareena Kapoor some time back on Star World, "Whatever superstars like Kareena, Shah Rukh or Hrithik do on the big screen, they have to be drawn out carefully to reveal their true personalities on the television screen. And that is the secret of my communications strategy."

Thoughts on throats that don’t clear
K.K. Khullar
YOU have heard of bypass surgery, perhaps not of bypass throat. A bypass throat is one which refuses to clear, I mean, refuses to steer clear, when words are stuck and have to be brought out with an effort.