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Jyothi Venkatesh
With several celebrities garnering a record number of followers on Twitter recently,
we check out whether too much tweeting is good or bad for the stars in tinsel town …
LADY
GAGA's followers on social networking site Twitter reached 10 million
recently, making her the first celebrity to attain that number of
followers. Earlier last month, Priyanka Chopra also notched a record
of sorts by garnering more than a million followers on Twitter,
joining the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Shashi Tharoor. A certain idea of India
A major exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is giving a peep into the Indian society
through the eyes of Indian and French artists, writes
Vandana Shukla
IN
2002, when Bombay Dreams opened to a packed hall in London and
ran for two years, it penned a new cultural chapter for India in the
West. The musical, then, went on to break records at Broadway.
Touch
of history
Chingas Sarai, near Rajouri,
is built at the site where Queen Noor Jahan buried the intestines of
her husband, Emperor Jahangir, to save the Mughal kingdom, writes Jupinderjit
Singh
TOMBS
of kings, queens, soldiers and even lovers are found all over the
world, especially in India, where kingdoms prospered and vanished. But
have you heard about a tomb of an Emperor, built at a place where just
one part of his body was buried? That too, an internal organ?
Problems
of an oily skin
Oily skin conditions have
trademark symptoms — large pores, blackheads and dullness. Healthy
eating habits and cleansing can give softness to your skin, says Sita
Mehta
THE
largest organ in the body — our skin — is not only the shield that
protects the inside of us from the outside, but also creates the
visual aspects of any human being. Of all skin types, an oily skin
condition has poured billions of dollars into the cosmetic industry
and is one of its primary monetary contributors.
A
home away from home
With holiday season in full
swing, we bring you a collection of some of the world’s best
boutique hotels offering stylish getaways at a pocket-friendly budget
MONA Pavilions,
Hobart, Australia
It’s
not often that a hotel comes with its own art gallery attached, which
is why Hobart retreat MONA Pavilions in Tasmania is a must for
culture-vultures. The 2011 opening of cavernous cliffside MONA
(ambitious private venture the Museum of Old and New Art) has brought
local and international art to this one-stop style shop.
Notes
of harmony
In a chat wih Mithun
Dasgupta, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan says creativity needs a world of
peace
Creativity
can be harnessed only in a peaceful world, sarod maestro Ustad Amjad
Ali Khan says, voicing concern over the mounting threats to peace
since the 9/11 attacks in the US ten years ago and the recent
retaliatory killing of Osama bin Laden.
Iron
in the fire
From a story of people
surviving within the sponge iron industry, the National
Award-winning film Loha Garam Hai evolves into a scathing
comment on the lopsided concept of industrialisation at the cost of
human lives, writes Shoma A. Chatterji
LOHA
Garam Hai won the Best Environmental Film Award at the 58th
National Film Awards in the non-fiction category. It had won the same
award from IDPA (Indian Documentary Producers Association), Mumbai, in
July 2009. Meghnath and Biju Toppo, two founders of Akhra directed the
film jointly.
Man
for all seasons
Naseeruddin Shah’s latest
film Michael explores the father-son relationship, writes
Ranjan Das Gupta
A
father-son
relationship has hardly been explored in Indian cinema, especially
Hindi films. Many a film has dealt with either the father-daughter or
mother-son relationship," Naseeruddin Shah asserts as he speaks
about his forthcoming film Michael. The acting icon, considered
the greatest after Balraj Sahni, has just completed three and a half
decades in films.
‘Cinema
is being misused’
Priyanka Sharma
KAY
Kay Menon, the management graduate-turned-actor, who has been
in Bollywood for more than a decade, feels cinema is being misused as
most of them are riding on marketing gimmicks while content has taken
a backseat.
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