If only we paused to reflect before a violent thought!
Rooma Mehra
THOSE troubled days surrounding December read like pages confused, smudged gibberish, penned by multiple minds, with no rationality. One found oneself wondering if human beings could really become totally immune to the senseless killings of fellow human beings.

Common people, uncommon zeal
They inspired villagers to harvest water
V. Radhika
AURANGABAD: A little over a year ago, a sub-divisional officer in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state was given an unceremonious welcome. The villagers were pelting stones in protest — there was a delay in dispatching water tankers to their parched land.

Fun & adventure
Bird-watching can be educative
Tarun K. Roy
A lay person is generally not aware of the subtle difference between ornithology and bird watching. Ornithology means the study of birds or avifauna while bird-watching is the field observation of birds.

Remembering a legend
The Elvis magic lives on
Gaurav Sood
HE starred in 33 successful films, made great history with his television appearances and gained great success, often record-breaking, though his live concert performances. All over the world, he sold over one billion records, believed to be more than any other artiste.

Hollywood hues
A futuristic flick with gripping screenplay
Ervell E. Menezes
SO, Steven Spielberg is at it again in the genre he loves most—science fiction or sci-fi as the Americans call it. If A.I—Artificial Intelligence was about robots without feelings and how they try and introduce love, Minority Report is about pre-crime, that is preventing crime before it can take place.

Behind the scenes
On the sets of Boom
BOOM! is the latest buzzword in Bollywood. Here’s letting you into a few secrets about red-haired fashion designers, red-hot models and serial killers in a purple boudoir. Boom is Jackie and Ayesha Shroff’s ambitious film production after the debacle of Grahan. Currently, the entire unit is off to Dubai, shooting the climax.