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MEMORABLE
MEALS
Off
the beaten track
Their meal is the
message and it often travels by word of mouth. Pushpesh
Pant on lesser-known eating places and the excellent fare they
offer
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Roadside
repast: Bhajan Da Dhaba at Gajraula, near Nainital, and Giani Da Dhaba at Dharampur, near Solan, have a loyal clientele.— Photos by the writer
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meals we have had belong to the realm of roadside eateries. Dhaba
is the catch-all word usually employed to describe these places but to
be honest, some were less noticeable than the proverbial ‘holes in
the wall’. Others were straining hard to upgrade as motels or
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Feat
of the falcon
In a daring and
audacious mission three years ago, a Mirage 2000 flew almost 4000 km
across the Indian Ocean. This was perhaps the first time that a
single-engined fighter aircraft accomplished such a feat. Vijay
Mohan reports on one of the Indian Air Force’s most complex
peacetime operations
Three
years ago, on October 26, an IAF Mirage 2000 flew 4,000 km non-stop
across the Indian Ocean from Mauritius to Trivandrum. The five-hour
sortie by a single-engined aircraft, which marked the culmination of a
unique salvage operation, was one of the most challenging peacetime
operations undertaken by the IAF.
Giant
of dino world
Argentine
and Brazilian palaeontologists claim to have found a giant
plant-eating dinosaur, Futalognkosaurus dukei, that roamed the earth
some 80 million years ago. The dinosaur measured at least 32 m (105
ft), making it one of the tallest dinosaurs ever found, said Jorge
Calvo, director of the palaeontology centre at the National University
of Comahue, Argentina."This is one of the biggest (dinosaurs) in
the world and one of the most complete of these giants that
exist," he said.
Lessons
that students teach
Manipur students want that their education should not be impacted by
the frequent strikes in the state. They have come up with a unique
proposal to make education an essential service on par with medical
and media services, writes Thingnam Anjulika
Samom
They
oversee the framing of the syllabus, punish students cheating in
examinations, supervise teachers’ attendance and unmask fake
appointments, financial bunglings and errors in state exam question
papers. Yet, they are neither government officials nor teachers. They
are, in fact, a group of student bodies that are doing all they can to
ensure a fair and successful education system in Manipur. Now, they
have called for ensuring that education is not impacted by bandhs,
general strikes, protest rallies and dharnas — which are held a dime
a dozen in the conflict-torn state.
FASHION
Go desi this Divali
Try out gold-bordered kurtas,
crisp dhotis and formal sherwani and churidar
sets during the festival of lights, writes Phiroze
Kharegat
Women
have yards and yards of crystal-encrusted sarees, flashy rocks on
their fingers and necks, pretty bags embroidered to match their pallus
and perfect stilettos with the attached paayal. The men get
shirts, pants, shoes and car keys to care of. In this day and age
where men have to be as chic as women, this just won’t do. What are
you men going to wear at the Divali or Karva Chauth bash? Here are a
few tips on what you should wear on these festivals.
‘I
play a strong female character’
Rani Mukerjee talks to
V. Ananth about her latest film Laaga Chunari Mein Daag
What
attracted Rani Mukerjee to say yes to the offer to be cast as Natasha
in Laaga Chunari Mein Daag was the beauty of the script. Says
Rani, "The fact that the script talks about the eldest daughter
trying to be the son of he house is something that lot of girls will
relate to because every elder daughter is kind of pressurised to be
the son of the house and Natasha in terms of what she does just to
prove a point to her parents that she is the boy of the house is what
makes the film very interesting."
Honour
for Mira Nair
Dharam Shourie
India-born
filmmaker Mira Nair, who rose to fame when her debut movie Salaam
Bombay was nominated for Oscar, will be honoured with at the 17th
annual Gotham Awards here next month for her contributions to
independent cinema. She will receive a Gotham Awards ‘Tribute’ on
November 27 at Brooklyn’s Steiner Studios.
TRIBUTE
Yesteryear
queen
With her beauty and
sophistication, Deborah Kerr took on Hollywood by storm. Ervell E. Menezes
on the British actress who died recently
When
Deborah Kerr died recently at 86`A0not many of this generation was
aware that she was one of Hollywood’s legends and in the 1950s she
co-starred with the leading men of her time — Stewart Granger, Cary
Grant, Burt Lancaster, Richard Burton and Yul Brynner. She easily
found her way into the Hollywood biggies like King Solomon’s
Mines, An Affair to Remember, The King and I and The
Night of the Iguana.
The
Legacy continues
Memories
were stirred and nostalgia ran high when first Bollywood family got
together to herald the entry of fourth generation heir Ranbir Kapoor
to the celluloid world legacy. Ranbir is making his cinematic debut in
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya, which is being touted as one of
the most eagerly, awaited films of 2007.
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