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Birth of HOPE
Be it natural calamities or man-made tragedies, human beings reveal tremendous reserves of resilience and strength. The buoyant spirit of renewal helps us bounce back even in the face of destruction. We pick up our enduring threads and dream on, writes Antara Dev Sen
WAIT. Don’t make those New Year’s promises just yet. The day is young, the year has barely begun. You’ll have enough time for virtuous vows later.

Wanderlust takes over
Travel is on top of the agenda now for Indians who are all set to experiment and sample the exciting destinations of the world, reports Komal Vijay Singh
NOT a long, long time ago, the average Indian was known for his frugal ways. Anyone who spent money on ghoomna-phirna or travel-shravel was either categorised a dolt or a spendthrift. Vacations translated into going to the place where naanke-daadke (maternal and paternal grandparents, respectively) lived.

From Tibet to Bollywood
Vibhor Mohan
HER friends call her a dancing queen, and not without reason. The newly crowned Miss Tibet-2005, Tenzin Nyima, loves to dance on Hindi songs, an unusual obsession for any Tibetan. So when she was declared the unopposed Miss Tibet at the contest held in McLeodganj in October, she could easily set the stage on fire with an electrifying performance on Kajrare to put any doubts about her selection to rest. "I just love the jhatkas in Hindi film songs.

Audience strikes back
Quality over cacophony was the dominant Bollywood theme in 2005 as the industry repeatedly defied box office logic with a clutch of unconventional films. Saibal Chatterjee reports

IN 2005, Bollywood made appreciable amends for all the junk that it had brazenly foisted upon moviegoers in the course of the previous year. It was almost as if a section of the Mumbai showbiz was desperate to seek forgiveness and it said sorry with a clutch of remarkable films that provided quality entertainment without pandering to the market’s insatiable hunger for sleaze fests, vacuous designer flicks and doses of putrid masala.

Sarkar was devoid of song-and-dance numbers but still became a blockbuster