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Cooking up a storm with a smile
Renu Manish Sinha
 Vikas Khanna remains true to his roots, and his ‘honest’ cooking has won him many admirers as well as a slew of awards
The
little boy, named Kalu, was born with clubfoot, a congenital defect
where an infant’s legs are misaligned and are usually turned
inwards. Despite corrective surgery when he was just two weeks’ old,
he could not walk properly, let alone run because of the heavy wooden
shoes he had to wear even after the operation. And how he hated those
ugly shoes which made him a butt of many jokes. The only time these
came in handy was during Diwali, when he could stomp on crackers
without the fear of getting hurt.
Where it all started: Vikas Khanna rolling chappatis in the kitchen of the Golden Temple at Amritsar
Arts
Music zone
Music takes a huge creative leap forward
Saurabh & Gaurav
Electronic artistry at another level of intricacy
Thom Yorke — Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes (Self Released)
Yorke’s
new solo album, delivered by surprise via BitTorrent, is the best
project he’s been involved with since Radiohead’s 2007 late-career
highlight In Rainbows, the last time he set the internet on
fire with a surprise, self-distributed album.
Tune in
FITNESS
good
health
Develop
core stability
Mickey Mehta
The core muscles or the muscles of the torso and the back are responsible for your posture, strength and the ability to move. If these muscles are compromised, your risk to injury and stress increases
How to get your child to eat healthy
Help your children learn to make nutritious eating choices
Taranjeet Kaur
From an early age, we begin
to teach our children about right or wrong; we teach them good habits
and moral values. Yet, we neglect to teach them about healthy food
choices and eating habits. We make attempts to force-feed them so that
they receive good nutrition. However, this is not right.
SOCIETY
She’s there when the going gets tough
Thinlas Chorol has broken the myth that women cannot be trekking guides in tough altitudes
Kavita Kanan Chandra
It is not easy to break into any
male-dominated business. But difficulties rise if it is the field of
trekking guides and then create opportunities for other women having
same aspirations. Meet Thinlas Chorol (33), Ladakh’s first
professionally trained woman trekking guide. She started her own
travel agency called Ladakhi Women’s Travel Agency (LWTA) in 2009
and broke the myth that women cannot be trekking guides.
Soul talk
Long term shift work hampers memory
London: Long-term shift work can help you earn more but it could adversely affect your brain functions, like memory and processing speed, says a research. Disruption of the body clock as a result of shift work could generate physiological stressors, which may in turn affect the functioning of the brain.
TRAVEL
Charm of the backwaters
Kalpana Sunder
Kumarakom in Kerala is a world that revolves around water. From resorts along the Vembanad lake to staying in houseboats, from a canal cruise to relaxing massages, this is a world that transports you to
the slow lane
According to Hindu mythology,
the warrior sage Parshurama threw his battle-axe in the ocean and as a
result the lush land of Kerala in southern India was reclaimed from
the waters. A sojourn in Kerala revolves around water — a labyrinth
of idyllic lakes, backwaters, rivers, lagoons and estuaries. The
backwaters are a 1500-km network of lagoons, estuaries and deltas of
44 rivers and canals.
Globetrotting
ENTERTAINMENT
Marketing is king
Saibal Chatterjee
No matter how bad a Bollywood film is, the power of hard sell can propel it to the big-bucks club
The
versatile Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who co-starred with Salman Khan in Kick
and is due to reunite with the superstar in the upcoming Bajrangi
Bhaijaan, had posed a pertinent question to this correspondent a
few months back: "Why do the films of the Bollywood superstars
need so much promotion if they really have clout?"
A golden journey
Nonika Singh
Poet, lyricist and scriptwriter Javed Akhtar’s journey in filmdom may have spanned five decades, but
his poetry and approach to life still remain fresh and fragrant with new meanings
He is the quintessential
pied-piper who has left generations mesmerised, first with the power
of his story telling and today with the magic of poetry. Whichever way
you look at lyricist, poet and scriptwriter Javed Akhtar, you can’t
escape the hypnotic spell he creates.
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