The Tribune Spectrum

Sunday, October 12, 2003

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Is Indian Hockey looking up?

Prabhjot Singh

IF the recent spate of wins in various international competitions, including the maiden title triumph in the 22-year-old Asia Cup, are any indication, yes, Indian hockey is looking up. But those who understand the game and have been following its progress in the subcontinent find no reason to be euphoric about our title triumph at Kuala Lumpur last month, which gives the country a passport to the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Indian players celebrate their Asia Cup win in Kuala Lumpur

Badla-laina-hai spirit helps Indians win against Pak
Sarbjit Dhaliwal
T
HE year was 1976. Punjabi University got a special request from the Principal of Government Barjindra College, Faridkot, to conduct a special annual examination for a lone student. The university turned down the request.

CHANDIGARH 50 YEARS
City Beautiful: 2053
Rangeen darian & haseen savariyan
Chetna Keer Banerjee takes a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek peek into what Chandigarh may look like, say, 50 years from now...
CIRCA 2053. The hundredth dawn of City Beautiful breaks over the still waters of the Sukhna Lake. A lissome twentysomething grinds to a halt in her jogging attire. Zoom. Click. She freezes the memorable moment on the nail-size screen of her digicam-equipped thumb-size handset.

What’s that writing on the wall?
Indu S. Bedi
A
T the entrance of the Rose Garden stands an important city monument which not many know about! The Edict of the city, formally inscribed in grey stone. A legacy left behind by city’s planners in the optimistic belief that alert citizens would turn out to be the best guardians of the ‘planned wonder town’ that they had created.

 


Creative endeavour

Queen of chocos & cream
Kavita Devgan
A
T 15, Zeba Kohli fell in love with chocolates. Today, at 37, her love for chocolates has only grown; she runs a successful business making delicious chocolates by the name of Fantasie Fine Chocolates.

A real life hero, not figment of a poet’s imagination
Saroj Bala
T
HE story of Shri Ram’s life was first narrated by Maharishi Valmiki in The Ramayana, written after he was crowned as the king of Ayodhya. Valmiki was a great astronomer because he made sequential astronomical references on important dates related to the life of Shri Ram indicating the location of planets vis-a-vis zodiac constellations and the other visible stars (nakshatras).

Evoking the Bhoot of the past with Pinjar
Vickey Lalwani
F
ROM portraying a seductive and innocent slum girl to playing a psychopathic killer or a possessed woman, Urmila Matondkar has done it all. She had a huge string of flops... until Rangeela happened. Her looks, hair, clothes, attitude... everything went in for a complete transformation, thanks in a large part to dress designer Manish Malhotra and make-up whiz Mickey Contractor.

Running for 9 yrs & still going strong!
V. Gangadhar
C
AN a movie run for nine long years in a city, that too at the same theatre? This 'world record' has been set by Yash Chopra's eternal romance Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (DDLJ), which has entered its nine-year run this month at the prestigious Maratha Mandir theatre in Central Mumbai.

"I live life on my own terms"
Avinash Kalla
I
N the last six years, Sushmita Sen has realised that a status in Bollywood is as coveted and as hard- earned as a crown in a beauty contest. Here, a beauty queenturnedstar is only as big as her last box office hit.

  Week Specials

 

TELEVISION: Ganguly on a new wicket
by Mukesh Khosla

NATURE: Cockroach capers
by Nutan Shukla

TRAVELA paradise called Atlantis
by Mohinder Singh

LIFE TIES: Profession and personality
by Taru Bahl

LESSONS FROM LIFE"It was worth it"

DREAM THEMEDreaming of balloons
by Vinaya K. Manhas

ULTA-PULTA: Circus animals in Parliament
by Jaspal Bhatti

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