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The Internet has fast grown as an alternative medium for artistes to showcase their music on, in an age when music channels play little music. Will the Internet outdo the TV in the future? Akshata Shetty finds out... Surfing the Internet is just like switching channels on the TV.
Monday, September 06, 2010 AT 04:02 PM (IST)
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Popular belief says that wine goes best with European food. But Indian cuisine is no longer off-limits to the concept of food and wine pairing, says Renu Dhole Over the past few years, though Indians have been hearing a lot about and perhaps tasting a lot of wine, the drink is still associated with Continental food.
Monday, September 06, 2010 AT 03:20 PM (IST)
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Navjyoti Dalal talks to Suraag Lambrou , who has mastered the art of somatic healing, which emphasises the role of the nervous system in mitigating pain or trauma Ever felt like snapping out of your body/consciousness during an unbearable headache? Well, it’s not entirely impossible anymore.
Monday, September 06, 2010 AT 03:09 PM (IST)
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How could a small country become the ruler of a vast Empire with the Indian subcontinent at its centre? Was it because the British were really “superior” as they claimed? Was it their military skill? Did the British offer better governance in India? English historian Roderick Matthews has studied these questions and the history of the British Raj in his book The Flaws in the Jewel — Challenging the Myths of British India.
Monday, September 06, 2010 AT 03:03 PM (IST)
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Everybody in London is talking about the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel and its secret leader. But no one knows who are the League’s members and the identity of the leader who signs his orders with the drawing of the flower Scarlet Pimpernel. That’s somewhat like the Batman. So there’s lot of action, plans, conspiracies and mysteries.
Monday, September 06, 2010 AT 02:55 PM (IST)
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Madam, former British PM Tony Blair’s memoir is out. And he’s written lot of bad things about his successor Gordon Brown”. “How bad, minister Pranab?” “In his 700-page memoir, called A Journey, Tony writes that Gordon was a political blackmailer, Gordon was bound to be a disaster as the British PM, Gordon’s tantrums forced Tony to take to drinking...
Monday, September 06, 2010 AT 02:49 PM (IST)
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Patty Berglund and her husband Walter live in a renovated mansion at Ramsey Hill neighbourhood in St Paul, Minnesota. But they are depressed, and ridiculous, at times. Their daughter is not affected by it but their son Joey, a budding entrepreneur, reacts: he moves in with a trashy neighbour next door. These then are the main players in Jonathan Franzen’s new novel Freedom. The Berglunds are rich.
Monday, September 06, 2010 AT 02:44 PM (IST)
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With a D-4D family engine, the roomy Corolla Altis Diesel is a fuel-efficient, reliable luxury sedan, says K Shivraj Diesel and Toyota is not a new equation. Every diesel vehicle that Toyota has sold in India has had an overwhelming response, be it the Qualis, or the Innova that was launched in 2005. It features the 2.5-litre D-4D common rail family engine. The Corolla has now been equipped with a D-4D family engine.
Monday, September 06, 2010 AT 02:36 PM (IST)
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The important thing to remember when surfing is that you’ve got to enjoy the elements harness them and let them work for you. Don’t challenge the sea it is way too powerful to conquer…” Helen, our surfing instructor, briefed us as we sat on one of the 42 beaches along the Gold Coast of Australia.
Monday, September 06, 2010 AT 02:31 PM (IST)
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The photograph above is that of a nomad’s tent in Tibet. But the nomads there are not happy at all. They are worried because the world’s “third Pole” is warming up faster than any other place in the world. The Tibetan plateau is reeling under the effects of global warming and its green pastures are vanishing everyday, leaving the region barren and forcing the nomads in the region give up their traditional occupation of herding.
Monday, September 06, 2010 AT 02:27 PM (IST)
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