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'Netagiri' on the shelf?
Interest in politics is on the wane in city colleges, as students find their dreams turning sour in this field. With no role political model to idolise, they are venturing into various other rewarding careers. ELIZABETH NINAN finds that despite the n ew trend, political heirs-apparent are being groomed and many have politician-guardians.
Nutrition
It's hot and happening
The chilly used liberally in Indian cooking is a rich source of Vitamin C
Fitness
The big day
Prepare for the marathon with all the seriousness of a professional athlete. Acquaint yourself with the route in advance. On the night before the race, check the contents of your walking kit.
Lifestyle
Be right on top
Hats and caps have evolved from their formal faces to be fine carriers of personal style and personality attributes.

Get groomed with a goatee
Big B is sporting it, Sean Connery had it for many years and young and not so young men across the country are trying to make their own fashion statement by growing a goatee.
Arts & Crafts
Sculpting the `irrelevant'
T. PREMJEE condemns installations and abstracts and dumps them outside the cultural ethos of his native Kerala. "These are theories that have come from Europe and have been lapped up by us." And so, whether he is painting or sculpting Premjee ...
Personality
Shobhana changing track
Shobhana feels she's done everything possible in dance, in films. She tells K. PRADEEP that she got bored and is now on a `new lease of creative life'.
Displaying rare staying power
For the last 10 years Nammal Thammil has given viewers a chance to voice, and debate sensitive issues. PREMA MANMADHAN spoke to Sreekandan Nair after its 400th episode
Green Notes
Blooming bright
The peacock flower attains exotic nature by its sheer resemblance to the bird, and the red and yellow bloom lights up the garden and its surroundings.
Entertainment
Abhinaya dominates nritta
TEENAGE AND early youth are considered to be premature for a dancer to deliver the goods, as maturity in wanting to perceive the emotions and depth in the art. But this gains in plenty in their fifties. By then, the dancer is almost worn out as ...
Dancing to the galleries
Isha Shervani Sheth, who performed recently in the city, wants to reach out to the young via her new project called `Postcards from God'
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