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Against time & tide

When the recent tsunami wreaked havoc in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, media attention shifted to the region that had been only viewed as an idyllic getaway. The indigenous tribes which escaped with only a few casualities also came into the spotlight. Sridhar K. Chari gives an account of the lesser-known aspects of the life of tribes inhabiting the emerald isles.

The tribesmen of many indigenous island peoples in the Asia Pacific region have an interesting philosophy—"Never rush anywhere at full speed," the wise old elder of a hamlet might say. "Slow down occasionally, stop a while, so that your soul can catch up with you. They can’t travel as fast as your bodies!"

Painter as rebel
It is impossible to enter a room full of Souzas and not carry out a dialogue with the artist who turns reality upside down and challenges the romantic muse. A report by Aruti Nayar
For an artist who had said "After Picasso, it is Souza", the claim was not just a braggart’s empty posturing. As one enters Delhi’s Kumar Art gallery, which is celebrating its 50 years with a retrospective of Souza, the artist it introduced to India in the early 1960s, it is a journey into an artist’s life and art.

Voice of faith
With a heavenly voice and a steely spirit, Rabbi Shergill has taken the music world by storm.
Saibal Chatterjee reports.
He is one of a kind. He neither looks nor speaks like a pop star. He writes his own songs. He blends strains of rock music with the depth of Punjabi Sufi lyrics as if they were always meant to go together.

Page Three capers
Into his third major film this year, after the successful Chandni Bar and Satta, Madhur Bhandarkar is ambitious about Page Three, his comment on the party culture of metro India, writes Vimla Patil
MADHUR BHANDARKAR’S two earlier films, Chandni Bar and Satta, were acclaimed by audiences and critics alike. Why did Madhur think about the party and celebrity culture of metro India that is discussed threadbare at almost every social gathering or seminar in India today?

Star who sang her way into hearts
The last singer star of Hindi films lit up the screen with her acting prowess and bowled over the viewers with her sweet voice. Pran Nevile remembers Suraiya on her first death anniversary
Suraiya was the last one to play the dual role of a singing-star in cinema before the advent of playback singers in the late 1940s.

• Oscar hope

Go Goa 
and celebrate life to the hilt
Ervell E. Menezes
The Carnival in Goa has become, over the last three decades, quite a tourist attraction and many roads lead to Goa in expectation of fun and frolic. We in Goa know that Goa isn’t the Carnival but try telling the outsiders or visitors that.

• Floating high