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SPOIL sport
The IPL changed the way
cricket is played and enjoyed, but has now itself become a power game,
writes M. S. Unnikrishnan
Cricket was just a
sport, and crores were mind-boggling sums, till the Indian Premier
League (IPL) hit the scene like a tornado to change the rules of the
game forever. Now, the IPL is a
marquee event, known the world over, which threatens to overtake the
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MONEY MULTIPLIER
THAT the IPL is awash
with cash is no secret, but the kind of money being generated every
year is mindboggling. IPL chairman and match commissioner Lalit Modi
was expecting revenues to the tune of Rs 4700 crore this year. Last
season, the IPL earned $ 450 million. Now, Modi expects to double the
income every year. That is around Rs 9000 crore next year, for a
two-month long carnival. Amazing indeed.
Eggxotica
unravelled
Intricately cut,
carved and decorated eggs were on display at Farha Sayeed’s egg art
exhibition held recently, writes Man Mohan
Farha
Sayeed (39) sells
eggs at very exorbitant prices, ranging from Rs 10,000 to more than Rs
1 lakh. But these are not ordinary eggs. These are objets d’ art.
The eggshells she designs are very intricately cut, carved and
decorated by hand and ornamented using pearls, beads, crystals,
brocade, velvet, satin, golden laces and rhinestone chains, making
each one a masterpiece.
Oil spill threatens turtles
Thousands of endangered
sea turtles and their eggs face a threat from a fuel oil leak from a
ship, nearly two km off Orissa’s coast near Gopalpur port, a
wildlife expert has said. "More than 1,00,000
turtles had nested last month on the Rushikulya beach. The oil can
cause irreversible damage to the eggs and the turtles which are still
present at the offshore waters," said Biswajit Mohanty, secretary
of the Wildlife Society of Orissa.
Life through the lens
With the help of the
camera, poor and uneducated women of Andhra Pradesh’s Medak district
interact with the world. Ask them, and they will tell you they can
read all about life this way, reports Papri Sri Raman
IF you happen to travel
to Pastapur or Edakalapally village in Medak district of Andhra
Pradesh, and pass by the millet fields green with the new crop, you
may be in for a pleasant surprise. In this heart of rural India, where
many villagers are unlettered, Sooremma, a single woman abandoned by
her husband long ago, may just accost you with a tripod and a
Panasonic camera.
Smell good, feel great
Perfumes lift your
spirits and enhance your mood, says Kiran Ranga
WE have different
reasons for wearing perfumes. We wear perfumes either to be perceived
in a certain way by others, or to feel a certain way about ourselves.
Some of us also put on perfumes to make fashion statements and project
desired personalities. At the outset, you need to be clear on what you
want a perfume to do for you.
In
tiger land
As efforts to save our
national animal from extinction gather momentum through campaigns such
as "Save Our Tigers", Lieut-Gen Baljit
Singh (retd) visits Kanha National Park, known to many as
Kipling country. It was the inspiration behind Rudyard Kipling’s
famous classic The Jungle Book
BIRD
song and bird sightings are an exciting part of an excursion to any
wilderness refuge. But when a national park of some 2,000 sq km is
known to harbour over 300 of India’s bird species, it is natural
that dawn literally "explodes" with bird song. So for the
moment one happily reclines in the Gypsy-seat, enjoying the rare,
three-dimensional avian symphony and relegating bird identities per se
to another time later.
Kerala’s snake boat
on the Thames?
Sanu George
Kerala’s famed snake
boats attract thousands to the annual boat race in Punnamada Lake.
Now, if all goes well, one of the over 100-ft-long boats may take to
the waters of the Thames river as part of a trial run of the inaugural
ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.
Hollywood reaches out to
India
When Jurassic Park
was dubbed in Hindi, it heralded a trend that is now a multi-billion
business. Hollywood hits in Indian languages are the big success story
of modern cinema, writes Nutan Sehgal
GUESS which have been
the three recent highest grossing movies in Indian languages`853
Idiots, Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani and My Name Is Khan.
Right? No wrong. Three of the biggest blockbusters in Indian
languages have been Avatar, 2012 and The
Twilight Saga: New Moon.
Raima on a roll
After the critical
acclaim she got for The Japanese Wife, Raima Sen is looking
forward to the release of Mirch, says Supratik Sengupta
Basking in the glory of
her widely appreciated performance in Aparna Sen’s film The
Japanese Wife, actress Raima Sen eagerly awaits the release of her
Hindi film Mirch directed by Vinay Shukla who had introduced
her to Bollywood with Godmother.
Searching
for the stars
British filmmakers are
scouting for actors in India, says Radhika
Bhirani
AFTER
Slumdog Millionaire, the makers of another British film are
headed to India to look for new South Asian faces for their venture
and possibly "find the next star". Yugesh Walia, the
producer of the yet-to-be-titled film, said the reason for exploring
casting possibilities in India is "because of the lack of enough
choice in Indian and Pakistani actors in Britain."
Credible
war film
Greengrass’ The Green
Zone is a good blend of the cerebral and staccato action, writes Ervell
E. Menezes
LIKE
The Hurt Locker, we now have The Green Zone, another
film set in Iraq during the American war to find those elusive Weapons
of Mass Destruction. The green zone is said to be the location of
those weapons.
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