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Meet the changemakers
Kavita Kanan Chandra
Young and educated, these Indians could have got plum jobs and lived a life of luxury. Instead they have opted to work in projects that directly benefit the rural population
 All
these young guns are in their twenties. One is a social entrepreneur
working with farmers, another has designed a vehicle for rural areas
while yet another visits villages providing solar lamps. One of them
turned his house into a school (when he was still a teenager) to
educate kids in his village where there was no school.
Arts
Music zone
Saurabh & Gaurav
Most intimate and personal album to date
Coldplay - Ghost Stories (Atlantic)
Compared to Coldplay's last two
flamboyant albums Viva La Vida and Mylo Xyloto, Ghost
Stories feels as melancholically light and airy as Parachutes.
Right from the dreamy soundscapes of opener Always in My Head,
Ghost Stories is the quietest and most strikingly human album
Coldplay has ever recorded. Magic is a clear illustration of the
album's clever interplay.
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Bodywise
Good
health
Skin sense
Dr Vikas Sharma
High levels of humidity during the rains can cause many skin disorders
While the rains bring a welcome relief from summer heat, they also
pose lot of challenges to the skin. The heat-induced rashes of
summer-time give way to the humidity-induced problems of the rainy
season. However, if you take few simple precautions, you can save
yourself a lot of misery due to skin disorders which tend to rise in
rainy season.
Monsoon mane
Hair fall generally increases during the monsoon. But with the right kind of care it can be avoided
Dr Sonal Shah
It’s that time of the
year again when you’ll find yourself grumbling about having bad hair
days. The rains can spell
disaster for your mane, as they turn your hair frizzy, scalp greasy
and result in hair fall. They often make your
hair limp and lifeless. Moreover, your hair gets tangled and turns
flat due to the excessive amount of moisture in the air.
Society
Writing to mould kids’ lives
Vibha Sharma
Praba
Ram is a children's writer, story-time specialist and an early
literacy advocate. She started Saffron Tree — a not-for-profit,
community-oriented, multi-cultural blog for showcasing eclectic
children's books. In writing for children, the wonders of nature and
cultural diversity inspire her the most. Her passion led her to
co-author four books: Dinaben and the Lions of Gir; Subbu, the
Signal; Bijoy and the Big River; and Endangered Animals
of India.
Soul talk
Hungry men crave bigger women
Hunger doesn't just mean men will want a bigger portion of food, research shows they also want bigger women. Both men and women crave bigger partners when they are hungry but men in particular desire voluptuous women while women want larger, heavier set men.
Travel
Cradle of modern bullfighting
Ranjita Biswas
Often called a ‘white city’, Ronda’s charm has enticed writers and poets for ages to this Spanish destination
The city seemed to hang, literally, from cliffs. At first glance
it would appear impossible but Ronda, one of the oldest Spanish towns,
is just that, a city on the precipice from a plateau in Spain’s
Andalusia region. It is often called a ‘white city’ because the
lime paint-covered houses make an undulating landscape in pristine
white. Poet Rainer Rilke called it a "giant of a rock on whose
shoulders rests a city whitened and re-whitened with lime."
Globetrotting
Entertainment
Where love has gone
Nirupama Dutt
The game of love continues in Bollywood with its highs and lows. Film-star romances today are making the most of it while it lasts and moving on with dignity
Love anytime anywhere has
always been a stormy business. In the driven, passionate and intimate
tinsel world of cinema, the storms have always been aplenty. In
Bollywood of the 21st century, the turbulent waves seem to be raging
all around moony couples even as the life of love gets shorter and the
keyword is to move on, the heart aches and breaks are not ruled out.
History revisited
Ervell E. Menezes
Don't miss a chance to watch Olivier Danah's
Grace of Monaco and Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty.
The two films allow the audience to get a feel of the not-so distant past
For me and a host of
others of my generation Grace Kelly is a Hollywood icon in the best
tradition of Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor and I clearly remember
her roles in the three Alfred Hitchcock films Rear Window, Dial M
for Murder and To Catch a Thief so, as a cinema buff, not
critic, I just wouldn't miss
Grace
of Monaco.
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