Sunday, October 19, 2003

ART & LITERATURE
'ART AND SOUL
MUSINGS
TIME OFF
ENTERTAINMENT
TELEVISION
GARDEN LIFE
NATURE
TRAVEL
LIFE TIES
LESSONS FROM LIFE
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
HOLLYWOOD HUES
INTERACTIVE FEATURES
CAPTION CONTEST

 


Bazaars get busy!!
Prerana Trehan

THE trend that was noticed about three years ago is now a full-blown phenomenon. This Divali everyone seems to be doing three things. The first is buying, the second is buying and the third is buying still more. Unbelievable, is the only word that comes to mind when one sees the astounding number of people crowding shopping plazas.

Diyas down the ages
Roshni Johar
S
INCE time immemorial, man has always been overawed by the sun, looking upon it as a great ball of fire in the heaven emitting light, also worshipping it as the life-giver. The diya is believed to represent this great fire. In Greek mythology, Prometheus got the fire from heaven to benefit mankind.

Crossing boundaries
How a German remembers Gandhi
Anees Jung
H
E is 92 and tall. His memory is as lucid as a young man's. When he talks about Gandhi, his face lights up, the years roll back, the heavy layers of dust drop and one is back in a time when a great man not merely walked the face of this earth but lived on it making each moment luminous for himself and others.

His father’s son & more
Abhay Desai
H
IS face bears the unmistakable stamp of his famous father, santoor wizard, Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma. He has also inherited his father’s commanding height, easy-going mannerisms, a down-to-earth humility and most significantly, the skills at bringing the santoor to mesmerise.

‘Main Madhuri Dixit nahin banna chahti!’
Avinash Kalla
T
HE Mast girl is cruising along the Road to success and is all poised to be in the Company of big league stars. Not just a star, this sizzling beauty dreams of becoming nothing short of Madhuri Dixit. Antara Mali reveals what it was like playing Madhuri Dixit in Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon.

 

COLUMNS

'ART AND SOULOf elegant walks & sculpted silks
B. N. Goswamy

TELEVISION: Winning ways
Mukesh Khosla

GARDEN LIFE: Cycads a favourite of landscapists
Satish Narula

TRAVEL: Lakes, waterfalls and orchids in abode of clouds
Peeyush Agnihotri

LIFE TIES: Leading with vision
Taru Bahl

LESSONS FROM LIFE: There are no short cuts to success

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: All in the family
Lata Khubchandani

HOLLYWOOD HUES: Horror film that’s a nightmare
Ervell E. Menezes

DREAM THEME: Dreaming of bouquets
Vinaya K. Manhas

ULTA-PULTA: Tunak tunak tun, visa laga!
Jaspal Bhatti

HOME
BOOKS

Philosophical agendas beyond words
M. L. Raina
Literary Philosophers: Borges, Calvino, Eco
edited by Gracia, Korsmeyer and Gasche. Routlege, London & New York.
Pages viii+248. $ 23.95

On a dusty track with a man extraordinary
Himmat Singh Gill
Rambles & Recollections of an Indian Official
by Sir W. H. Sleeman. Rupa. Pages 800. Rs 595.

Close-up of a genius at work
Devinder Bir Kaur
Portrait of a Director Satyajit Ray
by Marie Seton. Penguin Books, India Pages 376. Rs 495

Short Takes
Karachi as the nerve centre of terror
Jaswant Singh
Karachi: A Terror Capital in the Making
by Wilson John. Rupa. Pages 114. Rs 195.

  • Black Borders
    by Saadat Hasan Manto, translated from the Urdu by Rakhshanda Jalil. Rupa. Pages 50. Rs 95.

  • V. Shantaram
    by Kiran Shantaram with Sanjit Narwekar. Pages 128. Rs 295.

Fairytale adults can believe
Priyanka Singh
Journey to the Centre of the World
by Jules Verne. Rupa. Pages 281. Rs 95.

Effort to focus on a neglected core area
Aruti Nayar
Grameen kshetra ki patrakarita
by Renuka Nayar. Haryana Sahitya Akademi. Pages 144. Rs 100.

History revisited, rewritten
Yogesh Snehi
History in the New NCERT Textbooks: A Report and Index of Errors
by Irfan Habib, Suvira Jaiswal and Aditya Mukherjee. Indian History Congress, 2003, Kolkata. Pages vi + 130. Rs 50.

Erudite inquiry into phenomenon of oppression
D.R. Chaudhry
Oppression and Liberty
by Simone Weil. Routledge Classics, London. £ 7.99. Pages 184

Stories of love, loss and loneliness
Harbir K. Singh
Loving Ayesha and Other Stories
by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro. Harper Collins, New Delhi. Pages 223. Rs 250.

Socio-demographic profile of children
Ranjay Vardhan
The State of Children in India: Promises to Keep
by A.B. Bose Manohar, New Delhi. Pages 341. Rs 700.