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Walk up these
garden paths
 By the play of terraces,
trees & waterscapes, the Mughals created paradisiacal landscapes
upon earth
Rajnish Wattas
Three
things oppressed us in the land of Hind – its heat, its violent
winds, its dust". Such was the lament of Babur, the first Mughal
emperor when he reached India. Brought up in the traditional cool
shady and luxuriant "Paradise Gardens" of Persia and
Samarkand, he found the dry plains of North India colourless and
visually dull.
'ART & SOUL
A conclave
unlike any other
In the paintings of sufis,
saintly men from various centuries are juxtaposed. These saints seem
to belong to all time and all space
B. N. Goswamy
Not
infrequently, in Indian painting, one comes upon images of small
groups of saintly men — sufis is how one generally sees them —
seated in a circle at the centre of which there might be a low chauki-like
table on which a small pile of books rests.
Broad brush
FITNESS
good
health
A
bellyful of fat
Abdominal obesity can cause
many health complications
Mickey Mehta
Variety
is the spice of life. We Indians strongly believe in this saying and
gorge on all kind of dishes from different cuisines, relish large
helpings of dishes we like till we are more than satiated. Obesity in
India has been on the rise since the past eight to 10 years. Every one
person out of four is obese.
Need
for awareness about cancer
Dr Jai Gopal Sharma and Dr
Indu Aggarwal
There
are about 315 million young people aged 10-24 years in India,
approximately 30 per cent of the country's population. The healthy
habits and attitudes formed during young age lay a strong foundation
for lifetime of health-related behavioural patterns.
Society
Spring’s
celebration of fertility
Spring spells rejuvenation
for the earth as well as people, lending them, literally, a spring in
their walk
Ranjita Biswas
Celebrating
the advent of spring in various forms has been prevalent among
communities across the world for centuries. Whether it is Bihu in
Assam, Baisakhi in Punjab or May Queen celebration in the West, the
focus is on the awakening of the earth from the hibernation of the
winter months.
Travel
Of
wine trails and water cruises
From watersports to wineries,
the Finger Lakes region of New York State has unlimited appeal
Niku Sidhu
Come
summer and thoughts of serene cool waters bombard our mind space; the
enthusiasm to reach this serenity increase proportionately to the rise
in temperature. Lakes provide the ideal combination of inviting waters
to wade in, calm enough to canoe and clean enough for a midnight dip.
Globetrotting
Entertainment
Reimagining the
real, Bollywood ishtyle
In the first quarter of
the year, Hindi cinema sought inspiration from the social and
political woes that plague India
Saibal Chatterjee
For
the Bollywood movie watcher, the first quarter of 2014 was
extraordinarily remarkable. Not that the industry produced much that
could be regarded as qualitatively exceptional but it certainly
delivered interestingly diverse stories inspired by the real world and
its concerns.
Chip
off the Bhatt block
Her first film was an
unqualified success, the second won her critical acclaim and now Alia
Bhatt is all set to rock with 2 States. But she won’t let
success go to her head and fully understands that audiences’ love is
not unqualified
Nonika Singh
she
could well be like any 21-year-old girl who wants to be taken
seriously yet doesn’t mind the ‘very cute’ tag. Only
extraordinarily pretty, exceptionally talented and daughter of the
Mahesh Bhatt, Alia Bhatt is not just any other girl but so unlike a
regular new entrant in the filmdom struggling to find her feet.
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