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To the end of our
days
The eminent author shares a story
that he has written exclusively for The Tribune, with which he has had
a bond ever since the newspaper was published from Ambala
Ruskin Bond
 Six,
or seven — that's the age at which our essential tastes, even our
obsessions — begin to be stamped on us by outside impressions. They
are never eradicated, even when we think we have forgotten them. To my
dying day I shall have a special fondness for the cosmos flower
because I remember walking through a forest of them — or what seemed
like a forest — when I was five or six. White, light purple,
magenta, those fresh-faced flowers nodded to me as I played on the
lawns of the Jamnagar palace grounds; and today more than seventy
years later, whenever I see the cosmos in flower, I go among them, for
they are eternal even if I am not.
Everlasting Bond with
the hills
In an age where writers are
making headlines and are heard more than they are read, Ruskin Bond
prefers to let his pen do the talking. He writes stories straight from
the heart
Aruti Nayar
He
is the quintessential writer who captures the myriad shades of nature
like a miniature artist. He has brought immense joy to many a child by
weaving a world that is as authentic as it is imaginative. Writing
unhurriedly at his own pace in Ivy Cottage, Landour, Mussoorie, he is
"one of the biggest tourist attractions" of the tiny
hillstation.
’Art
& Soul
‘He who rode a tiger’
Jhajjar, a small state in Haryana,
and the colourful style of its last Nawab come alive as one comes
across some recently published paintings
B.N.Goswamy
When
we were young, we used to hear a Haryanvi saying: "Arre beta,
Jhajjar mein paida hua, key jaane Rohtak ki bahaar!" Meaning,
of course — using the little town of Jhajjar and the much larger
town of Rohtak, as points of comparison — ‘what would a country
bumpkin know anything about the world at large?’ In other words,
Jhajjar is after all, only Jhajjar; Rohtak is another world.
Broad
brush
Focus
The key to good results
Time management and good planning
can be a good tool for cracking the code for succeeding in Board
examinations
Dr Samir Parikh
Do
you often feel like 24 hours just aren't enough? Have you ended up
skipping meals because you simply because there wasn't enough time to
eat? Time is something that we all grapple to keep up with and feel it
slipping through our hands just when we need it the most.
Health Capsules
Society
The Crucible
With the advent of global
warming, the whole world has been put to a test
Deepak Rikhye
Once
upon a time in the distant past, the Earth was a paradise and inspired
John Milton to describe our planet as "A heav’n on
earth." We could be losing some of the splendour that the
Earth has been blessed with. The beauty we take so much for granted
has ,very slowly, shown signs of a reaction, to the extent that parts
of the earth could give way to water.
Travel
A pot of luck
Beautiful, whimsical, ethereal
— ceramics and pottery of Staffordshire have been brought together
under one roof at the Wedgwood Museum at Stoke-on-Trent in England
Nivedita Choudhuri
 Stoke-on-Trent
shot into the limelight a few years ago as the birthplace of
singer-songwriter, occasional actor and member of the celebrated pop
group Take That, Robbie Williams. But the town first achieved fame at
least 200 years before Williams’ birth when Josiah Wedgwood started
to convert his dazzling designs into mass-produced ceramics and the
town in the county of Staffordshire became the hub of the pottery
industry in England.
Pottery display inside the Wedgwood Museum
Globetrotting
Entertainment
Twinkle, twinkle,
the lost star
Many a child was tempted to enter
the film world after actors like Baby Naaz, Baby Guddu and Jugal
Hansraj made it big on the cinemascope. However, many of these popular
child stars have not been able make the transition to stardom as
adults
Shoma A. Chatterji
 What
happened to Jackie Coogan the little boy who broke glass windows by
pelting stones at them in Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921)?
Or to Enzo Staiola who featured in The Bicycle Thieves (1948)?
No one knows what happened to Henry J. Thomas, the protagonist in
E.T.
Hansika Motwani (right) acted as a child star with Hrithik Roshan and Preity Zinty in Koi Mil Gaya
‘I am a happily
married man’
Farhan Akhtar is grinning from
ear-to-ear after sweeping Best Actor trophies for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
at leading award functions. The actor chats up about his new film
Shaadi Ke Side Effects
Sreya Basu
Why is Shaadi Ke Side
Effects a special film for you?
Shaadi Ke Side Effects
has a classic format of a romcom. It is the only film I have done so
far where there was so much humour. Besides, most films on marriage
made, so far, are serious ones, while most romcoms are about an
individual, who is single, and at the end of the film, gets hitched.
So it is quite different in that aspect.
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