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No
cruelty, this?
There are people who
will neglect their personal comfort to nurse an injured dog or a
bird. But the milk of their kindness tends to dry up when it
comes to protesting against the manner in which millions of
birds and animals are slaughtered to feed human beings, says Amar
Chandel
ONE'S
heart melts at the deep concern shown by some kind souls towards
the animals subjected to cruelties of various kinds. There are
wonderful people who will even neglect their personal comfort to
nurse an injured dog or a bird. It is only thanks to their
campaign that ivory and shahtoosh trade has come to an
end.
Majestic
mirrors
The ancient art of
making metal mirrors is still practiced, without modifications,
by a few artisan families in Aranmula village of Kerala. The
making of the mirror, a unique gift of India to the world,
involves a long process that needs a lot of patience, writes Sadanand
Menon
LIKE
Darjeeling tea or Benarsi sari, the Aranmula bronze mirror is a
unique gift of India to the world. The exquisite metal bronze
mirror is produced only in Aranmula, a village in Kerala.
Back
to enamel jewellery
As gold prices rise,
women prefer to invest in age-old enamel jewellery, which has
the gleam of gold and the brilliance of precious stones, says Madhurika
Bose
WITH
gold touching Rs 1,500 per gram, women are on the lookout for
more economical options as far as their jewellery is concerned.
They cannot do better than invest in enamel jewellery, which has
the gleam of gold, brilliance of precious stones and the sheen
of enamel.
Chic Chicago
It is the city of jazz, Nat King Cole, mafia. Political home of Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama, it is also quintessentially American, writes
Lalit Mohan
AS
the aircraft descends over the shimmering waters of Lake Michigan the
spectacular skyline of Chicago looms ahead. Chicago has a special
quality: the quality of being quintessentially American. Because of
all major US cities it is more American than any other city.
From Ang to
Zoozoos
Forty-four
years after legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray created the iconic dwarf
Ang, which was adapted by Hollywood director Steven Spielberg as the
E.T., a crew of 25 admen has given India a new cult of queer beings
— the Zoozoos.
Straight
with all the curves
Celina Jaitley talks to
Ritesh Sharma about gay activism,
films and her mentor Feroz Khan, who passed away recently
WITH
as many as seven releases lined up in the next few months, you
are getting ready to shoot for your second international
venture, The Quest Of Sheherzade and are awaiting the
release of the first Love Has No Language. So it seems to
be pretty busy time for you?
Poster
boy of secularism
Shakuntala Rao
Listing
Shah Rukh Khan as one of 50 global power elites, Newsweek
writes, "Who is the world’s biggest movie star? Brad?
Will? Nah. His name is Shah Rukh Khan, and he’s the king of
Bollywood.
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