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Warriors
of the faith
 A. J. Philip
visits the headquarters of the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and finds no signs of firepower that spurs
the so-called keepers of the flock
NAGPUR
is a city of paradoxes. What strikes you most when you come out of the
airport is a huge arch across the road proclaiming "Welcome to
the City of Oranges". However hard you try in the sweltering
heat, orange is one thing you will not find even in the big fruit
market near the railway station. Ask for oranges in any shop, you will
get various explanations why it has disappeared from the city, through
which 5 lakh tonnes of the fruit passes every year. "Nagpur is no
longer the orange capital of the country. The citrus fruit is exported
and not consumed here. This year the production was pretty
low"… thus went the explanations.
Offering
to the Guru
Asha
and Ramesh Seth write
about their experience of celebrating the birth anniversary of Guru
Nanak at the Fremont gurdwara in the USA. The visit brought home to
them the creed of sharing one’s good fortune with the less fortunate
On
one
of our trips abroad we were in Fremont to celebrate the birth
anniversary of Guru Nanak. Fremont is the heart of the famous Silicon
Valley.
Gateway
to history
Sudha Jhunjhunwala travels to Cambridge and comes back wishing
she could study
there in her next birth
We
set out to tour East
Anglia, using Cambridge as a gateway to explore the beauties of this
famous part of England. So much has been written and visually
portrayed on Cambridge that I doubt if any educated person is unaware
of the town. However, I take the liberty of paying homage to a
favourite place where I hope to study in my next birth.
After
350 years here is a black Taj
A sand sculptor has
fulfilled emperor Shahjahan’s dream, reports
Bibhuti Mishra
Mughal Emperor
Shahjahan’s unfulfilled last wish of building a black Taj Mahal
facing the white one at Agra has come true. The internationally
acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik, from Orissa has created a Taj
Mahal in black sand on the eastern side of the famous Taj Mahal inside
the Taj Khema.
‘We
all make choices in life’
Though Rahul Bose is saddled
with the image of a sober, introvert and sensitive character in film
after film, his role in The Whisperers is in contrast to
earlier films.
V. Ananth talks to him on his
transformation from a tough rugby player to an actor playing soft
characters
Rahul
Bose is an actor with multiple facets,
with head held high in the sky and feet firmly rooted to the earth. He
has a list of achievements in his kitty, which can make many
high-profile people look at him in awe.
ROLE CALL
Soha’s
hat-trick
Reiterating
her Bengali connection,
Soha Ali Khan will now be seen in Aparna Sen’s tentatively titled Goynar
Baksho (The Jewellery Box), where she will star with her mother
Sharmila Tagore. This is Soha’s third Bengali film, her earlier ones
being Anjan Das’s Iti Srikanto and Rituparno Ghosh’s Antar
Mahal.
Beyond
Superman
Hanuman draws on rich mythological sources. It presents a
visual-aural treat and boasts of world-class animation and loads of
drama,
writes Komal Vijay Singh
The
festive season this year
has brought a Family’s Day Out gift in the shape of a movie on the
grand-daddy of all superheroes, Hanuman. Touted as India’s first
animation movie, it has to a large extent bridged the gap between
childhood and adulthood.
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