Evergreen ANAND

At 87, Dev Anand carries on, a vital link between the present and the past. The versatile and young-at-heart hero will have two releases this year. V Gangadhar about the remarkable actor

Where are the famous film studios in the US and India which had churned out thousands of films? In Hollywood, Warner Brothers, Columbia, Paramount, RKO and Universal International are vague memories now. The biggest of them all, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, too, recently filed for bankruptcy and was taken over by dozens of creditors. No one knows if it will survive in its new avatar.

Hooked to books
In such times when the quiet pleasure of reading is getting lost in the
world of e-books, book clubs like those in Patiala offer a ray of hope,
writes Swati Rai
IN today’s tech-savvy world, we text not talk, type not write and network on the net! We read only the bold font, not life’s fine print and talking of print, we even plug in and plug off an e-book on the move! No wonder, then, that the quiet pleasure of reading is getting lost somewhere.

Scent of a woman
Selecting a perfume is a question of how far your body matches with it, says Banalata Bipani
A survey by cosmetologists reveals that every modern woman has in her boudoir six perfumes. Two bottles are gifts, two are image/trend driven, and a couple selected by the individuals as relating to their true personality. Very often you get perfumes which you cannot use or are averse to, for, nowadays, the correct perfume has become a major factor in your office or social life.