Sunday, May 30, 2004


ART & LITERATURE
'ART AND SOUL
MUSINGS
TIME OFF
ENTERTAINMENT
TELEVISION
GARDEN LIFE
NATURE
TRAVEL
RELATIONSHIPS
LIFE'S LESSONS
CONSUMER RIGHTS
BRIDGE
HOLLYWOOD FLICKS
DREAM THEME
ULTA-PULTA
INTERACTIVE FEATURE
CAPTION CONTEST


Young faces, new agenda

The Tribune team of Tripti Nath, S. Satyanarayanan and Prashant Sood talk to the new MPs about their hopes and aspirations.

Young MPs: New voices from region
Prabhjot Singh
Punjab
may be behind Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and even Madhya Pradesh in sending Harvard or Wharton graduates to the 14th Lok Sabha, yet it has taken a lead over other states in this region by electing three first-timers, including a woman.

She dances to her own tune
Aditi Tandon
Acting has never been Nandita Puri’s first love. She took to it out of need. Years ago, when she bagged her first role in the much-acclaimed serial Campus, Nandita realised that television could bring in good money — something she desperately needed as a struggling classical dancer in Mumbai. As her financial position eased, Nandita found enough time for kathak, her first and only love.

In search of solo hit
V. Gangadhar

Having been a Saif bet in supporting roles, Hum Tum is the film which is expected to prove his mettle as a solo hero. Saif Ali Khan undergoes the litmus test as the film hits the theatres.

Worth a catch
Ervell E. Menezes
Edward
Bloom (Albert Finney) has a knack of spinning stories faster than the drop of a hat and this sort of embarrasses his son Will (Billy Crudup). How much of it is truth and how much fiction is anybody’s guess but his audience seems to enjoy them. It is only after Edward is terminally ill and his wife Sandra (Jessica Lange) gets her son Will to reconcile with his dad that the viewer treads the fine line between fact and fiction in Big Fish.

COLUMNS

'ART AND SOUL: Images of women
B.N. Goswamy

BRIDGE

DREAM THEME: Magnetic appeal
Vinaya K. Manhas

GARDEN LIFE: Space to branch out
Satish Narula

TRAVEL: Discovery of Columbus
Sujoy Dhar

TELEVISION: No more Director’s Special

LIFE'S LESSONS: All big things begin with a small wish

ULTA-PULTAThe rat trap
Jaspal Bhatti

BOOKS

Rulers of the kingdom of music
Aditya Rishi
Music Makers: Living Legends of Indian Classical Music
by Ashok Roy.
Rupa & Co. Pages 333, Rs 995.

Books received: English

A sleuth’s African safari
Vikramdeep Johal

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith.
Abacus, London. Pages 250. £ 2.99.

When cancer lost and hope won
Vijay Tankha
Smiles and Tears: A Salute to Cancer
by Anup Kumar.
Rupa & Co. Pages 272. Rs 295

Human rights and the rhetoric of injustice
Shelley Walia

The Umbrella of US Power: The Universal Declaration of
Human Rights and the Contradictions of US Policy
by Noam Chomsky.
Seven Stories Press, New York. Pages 78. $ 6.95.

Guns and losses
Jaswant Singh

Kashmir: The Untold Story
by Humra Quraishi. Penguin Books. Page 204. Rs 250.

The cutting edge of law

Sinful secrets
Aditi Garg

At Heaven’s Gates
by Sunil Gangopadhyay. Rupa. Pages 155. Rs 195.

Punjabi review
Fascinating lives
Shalini Rawat

Kis Kis Taranh de Sikandar
by Gurbachan. Lokgeet Parkashan. Pages 256. Rs 150.

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