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Rand
Still hot, still cool
The Russian-born émigré,
who chose America for her home and who passionately believed in the
American ideals of freedom and individualism, continues to hold sway
over young minds with her brilliant novels of ideas, writes
Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
Rand facts
One
flew over the
PAINTER’S NEST
Painter, writer, actor
and vagabond are some ways to describe Naresh Pandit who has made
eloquent paintings of hills and hill people from his studio in Mandi,
says Nirupama Dutt
The
first image one has of
painter, writer and actor Naresh Pandit dates back to the late 1970s.
It is a street play by Gurcharan Chaani, probably Disturbed Area and
among the young actors are students of the College of Art, Chandigarh,
is one who chants his lines with more gusto than others: Raje mangi
bakri, main bakri lijani hai
Stockholm
syndrome
Winter in the Swedish
capital is abuzz with activity which reaches its peak with the Nobel
Prize-giving ceremony on December 10, says Trilochan
Singh Trewn
Stockholm,
the capital of Sweden with its seat of Parliament and government, also
has the fascinating Globen (the world’s largest spherical building)
and the picturesque Drottningholm Palace where the present Royal
family resides.
The
original Hardwar
Kaleshwar in Kangra
lies forgotten though it is believed to be holier than Hardwar as a
pilgrimage centre, writes Kuldip Dhiman
During
their exile the Pandavas
arrived at a scenic spot on the banks of the Beas river in Kangra
district. They were so taken in by the location that they thought of
making a city that would be the gateway to heaven — Hardwar. The
idea was to construct steps that would lead to the Swargaloka.
Antarctica getting warmer
Recent
indications
notwithstanding that showed that Antarctica had cooled considerably
during the 1990s, new evidence has suggested that the icy continent
has been getting warmer for the last 150 years. David Schneider, from
the University of Washington’s Department of Earth and Space
Sciences said the trend was not identified in the short meteorological
records and had been effectively masked at the end of the 20th century
by large-scale temperature variations.
Good
show, could be better
It’s all very well
to promote Asian cinema, but efforts must be made to get the best
films from these countries, writes Ervell E.
Menezes
The
5th Asian Film Festival
held in Mumbai in mid-October in theatres here (Plaza, Metro Adlabs
and Chavan Centre) offered a wide variety but if one wanted to get a
rounded slice of it, one had also to suffer through the not-so-good
cinema, like Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
No threat to
Don
Randeep Wadehra
The
pre-release high decibel
talk of Shahenshah versus King Khan on the one hand and Khan
(Shahrukh) versus Khan (Salman) on the other appears to have simmered
down, at least for the time being.
Sushmita plays Jaya’s role in Sholay
My Radha is neither introvert, nor repressed. And she doesn’t spend all her time lighting lamps in the night, Ram Gopal Varma tells
Subhash K. Jha
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