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Learn how to
defend yourself
How vulnerable women are in our
country today is evident from the sharp increase in the incidence of
crime against them
Seema Sachdeva
 December
16, 2012, New Delhi. It is almost two years since the gruesome
incident took place but the ominous day is difficult to forget. A
23-year-old paramedical student was brutally gangraped on a moving bus
in the National Capital. The beastly act led to her death 13 days
later. The incident provoked unprecedented outrage and protests all
over the country. Women acutely felt the need to learn how to defend
themselves.
Arts
Flamenco’s Punjab connect
Flamenco, Spain’s vibrant folk dance, has strong Indian roots. It is believed to have been created by expatriate people of Jat origin
Hugh & Colleen Gantzer
PJOs
is our term for those wonderful people of Jat origin. These ones have
lived in Spain for many generations. We met them one night in a cave
off the steep streets of the Sacromonte district of Granada. There we
discovered that one of the owners of the Cuevas los Tarantos, Zambra
Gitana had a very Indian name, Maya.
Broad Brush
fitness
The new art of eating
Organic food is safe and doesn’t have disease-causing chemicals. It can check many physical and psychological disorders
I
had only paid lip service to organic food about 10 years ago. How
could one ask the money-conscious Indian eaters to spend more on
organic food? A chance meeting with the obesity psychiatrist with the
John Hopkins Medical centre really shook me up. She pointed to the
humongous sizes of Americans, the alarming rise of psychological
disorders, early puberty, all kinds of cancers, hyper activity, and
attention disorder in children.
HEALTH CAPSULES
Exercise good
for chemotherapy patients
SOCIETY
Mystique of Bhagat Singh
The martyr continues to capture the mindscape of the Indians even many years after he was born
Mehak Uppal
Martyr
Bhagat Singh wrote this
couplet on the first page of his jail diary. One wonders if he himself
knew that what his analytical mind wrote, read and studied with a
single-minded focus would define the way his life eventually came full
circle. Is it possible that the events and ideas that a person feels
strongly about end up playing an important role in his/her life in
inexplicable ways?
TRAVEL
Time-out in towering Toronto
Toronto has something for everybody. From an exhilarating edge walk to its rich culture and art scene to being a shopper’s paradise, the city offers much more besides its scrumptious food and the beautiful Niagara Falls
Preeti Verma Lal
Exactly
7 minutes and 52 seconds. That is what a Canadian cop took to huff up
to the top of the world. He ran up 2,579 steps of Toronto’s CN
Tower, the largest metal staircase on Earth. From the peak of the
tallest free-standing structure in the western hemisphere, the cop
knew he would find a stunning top-down view of the city.
Globetrotting
ENTERTAINMENT
Elements of genius
Strokes of true cinematic brilliance made the greatest impact at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival, which also had its usual share of Hollywood stars and their films
Saibal Chatterjee
AT
the 39th Toronto International Film Festival, the focus of the
mainstream media and the mass audience was expectedly on star-studded
Hollywood films and the much-awaited new works of world cinema’s
heavy hitters.
From Marathi theatre to Bollywood
Film and theatre actor Sandeep
Kulkarni, who became co-producer with Dombivli Return, chats up about his film and more
Surekha Kadapa-Bose
Marathi actor Sandeep
Kulkarni is best known for his roles in National Award-winning films
like Shwaas (2004), India's official entry to the Oscars, Hazaaron
Khwaishein Aisi and Traffic Signal.
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