The Tribune Spectrum

Sunday, June 1, 2003


ART & LITERATURE
'ART AND SOUL
BOOKS
MUSINGS
TIME OFF
YOUR OPTION
ENTERTAINMENT
BOLLYWOOD BHELPURI
TELEVISION
WIDE ANGLE
FITNESS
GARDEN LIFE
NATURE
SUGAR 'N' SPICE
CONSUMER ALERT
TRAVEL
INTERACTIVE FEATURES
CAPTION CONTEST
FEEDBACK

Run out...
...by their wives

Derek Pringle
C
RICKET and family life have never been easy bedfellows. A relationship which was at odds long before women were given the vote appears to have reached a crisis of late. Within the game, there has been a spate of well-publicised marital break-ups; outside it, the world is adapting to new rules of engagement between the sexes. The leading players are finding that cricket is making greater demands on them than ever before – and so are their wives.

Kashmir & Kerala houseboats are a study in contrast
K.R.N. Swamy
A
few months ago, during a tourism seminar, the lunch-time discussion among journalists turned towards the comparative merits of houseboats in Kashmir and in Kerala. While the militancy problem in Kashmir has shackled its tourism industry, Kerala, in the last decade, has made rapid strides in tourism, one of the star attractions being the introduction of houseboats. The houseboats in both states offer an interesting contrast.

Kerala’s kettuvalloms have been remodelled to attract tourists
Kerala’s kettuvalloms have been remodelled to attract tourists

 

Now, Tabu plays Lady Macbeth
Rakhee Gupta
T
HIS is one Bollywood actress who cannot be slotted with an image. She started out as the Ruk Ruk Ruk girl from Vijaypath some 15 years ago. A stalled film and months of waiting later, she migrated down South, doing almost a dozen potboilers in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam — all of them hits.

Call of the Everest
Noel Lobo
S
HE spent a night with us in Pune on her way back to England from a school in the deep south where she had taught for ten weeks; enormous classes of a hundred girls. Mary, let me call her that, had just finished at a good public school in England and would be going up to Cambridge in October to read French and German.

HOBBIES & PASSIONS
Artistic pursuits of famous scientists
Tina Solanki
I
F Ronald Ross could take time off from his pursuit of the malarial parasite to write poetry and play the piano, in India, we had Homi Bhabha, the father of the nation’s nuclear programme who was also a violinist and painter, and another physicist, Satyen Bose, who composed complicated ragas on his esraj.

 

Week Specials

TELEVISION: Of lost identities & search for new ones
by Mukesh Khosla

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: "I only compete with myself"
by Shoma A. Chatterji

TRAVELUnravelling Norway’s many facets
by Mohinder Singh

GARDEN LIFE : Trees that offer shade & a feast of colour
by Satish Narula

LIFE TIES: Gift of solidarity from a brother
by Taru Bahl

LESSONS FROM LIFE: The gift of love can light up your life

DREAM THEME: Dreaming of wounds
by Vinaya K. Manhas

HOLLYWOOD HUESHonkytonk man

'ART AND SOUL: To study, conserve & restore
by B. N. Goswamy

FEEDBACK: Working towards a harmonious relationship

Books

They did what CBI could not
Review by
A. J. Philip

Functional love
Review by Kamaldeep Kaur

Vedic Linda Goodman
Review by Peeyush Agnihotri

Short Take
What after curtains?
Review by Jaswant Singh

Refreshing collection of an elegiac poet
Review by M. L. Raina

Literature as a weapon against colonialism
Review by Tej N. Dhar

Vapid memoirs
Review by Aradhika Sekhon

Meet the author
"Those living abroad have more reverence for their religion"

Off the Shelf
A head of state impeached
V. N. Datta

Signs & signatures
Reunion that couldn’t hold
Darshan Singh Maini

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