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For the
young, raring to read
 There are many choices
available for young readers as authors address their dilemmas and
challenges. Despite huge reliance on gadgets, more and more youngsters
are becoming avid readers
Vibha Sharma
Young adult (YA) is a
category which is differentiated from adult largely by the age of the
protagonists. So often the dilemmas and challenges faced by the
protagonist in a YA novel could be similar to that faced by an adult,
except that the age of the protagonist means that the challenges will
be faced in a different way. As children graduate
from board books, picture books, chapter books to novels; they are
children no more, nor can they be categorised as grown-ups either. So
it is absolutely fair to have a separate category of books addressing
and satisfying the desire of reading of young adults.
ArtS
The
fruits of passion
West met East on the canvas
of Amrita Sher-gil in strokes of sheer genius. This is evident in an
exhibition mounted at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi at
the close of her centenary celebrations
Nirupama Dutt
A
hundred years done and gone, Amrita Sher-gil (1913 to 1941) continues
to intrigue the collective consciousness from Shimla to Lahore; from
Delhi to Chennai as the first lady of the modern Indian canvas. Her
iconic status remains undisputed till date. Besides her beauty, her
short but flamboyant life is the stuff legends are made of.
Broad
brush
FITNESS
good
health
Fighting fit at forty
In the forties, the body
undergoes hormonal changes and metabolism slows down. Reduced muscle
strength and chronic fatigue occur. Age-busting exercises and
nutritious diet help us to beat the clock
Anjali Mukerjee
We all know that ageing
is inevitable — but how gracefully you age is up to you. Scientific
research shows that we can turn back the clock through a targeted
regimen of age-busting exercises and nutrition. By exercising for just
30 minutes a day and eating for maximum health and vitality, we can
not only build strength, shed extra pounds, improve flexibility and
balance, but also look years younger, even after forty and beyond.
Bags of burden
The load of a school bag
coupled with faulty ways of carrying it is having a negative impact on
children, resulting in back or shoulder pain
Dr Rajeev K. Sharma
it
can be a
disconcerting sight —an eight-year-old carrying a bag heavy enough
to tire her mother. Yet, today the weight of school bags has ceased to
bother us. This heavy load can have a negative impact on a child's
health, particularly if it is putting an uneven burden on her/his back
and shoulders.
Society
Colours
of empowerment
Rami Ben and Laxmi Ben from
the hinterland of Gujarat have used their entrepreneurial skills to
train themselves as well as other women
Geetu Vaid
Empowerment,
enterprise, entrepreneurship, profit and annual turnover may be common
sounding words in an urban set up and coming from a B-school graduate,
but one does sit up and take a note when the person using these is a
simple tribal with not much education, and more so when the person
happens to be a woman from one of the most backward areas in the
country.
SOUL
TALK
TraveL
The
French sienna town
Roussillon, with its cluster
of red-roofed houses, reminds one of an eccentric artist’s palette
of earthy colours
Kalpana Sunder
As
we wind our way through miles of vineyards, suddenly the colour of the
earth changes to a deep orange, like the fiery flames of a fire and
the deep red cliffs of Roussillon, come into view. It reminds one of
an eccentric artist’s palette of earthy colours or of the exotic
spices like nutmeg and cinnamon.
Globe
trotting
Entertainment
The
dubbing debacle
The release of Yash Raj
Films’ Gunday recently in two languages — Hindi and a
dubbed Bengali version in West Bengal — has stirred a hornet’s
nest, with the regional cinema opposing the move. Here’s a peep at
how the issue of dubbing is fast becoming a pan-Indian debate
Shoma A. Chatterji
dubbing
constitutes two dimensions. One is ‘voice’ category dubbing where
someone else dubs for the actor on screen because the latter either
does not know the language or is not proficient enough. The other is
from the angle of transliteration where an entire film is dubbed in a
different language. Films simultaneously shot in two language versions
do not enter into this debate.
The
enigmatic Hooda
Easily one of the hottest
actors around, Randeep Hooda sets the screen ablaze with his intense
performances
Nonika Singh
Like
the simmering characters he gets under the skin of onscreen, it’s
hard to nail him down. Inscrutable, abrasive and a trifle impatient,
Randeep Hooda is not an easy man to decode. Perhaps, part of his
allure lies in his brusqueness. So even though he opens up to reveal
some facets of his personality, there is nothing like Randeep
unplugged or no holds barred.
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