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Love for love's sake
Despite its commercialisation, Valentine's Day hasn't lost its charm. It is an occasion to share that fine feeling, and to discover that it is wise, at times, to be foolish...
Health & Medicine
Save your skin
The Laser Skin & Hair Clinic in the city offers various treatments in cosmetology. It also specialises in weight reduction programmes.


Miracle bean
Consumed in moderate quantities, soyabean is an excellent dietary supplement. However, one must be wary of inadequately processed soy products.
Lifestyle
Id Mubarak
THE TV channels in the State are all set to woo viewers with various programmes during Bakrid. Asianet has drawn up a list of special programmes to be aired on February 12. The morning show begins with `Mohabbat', a programme of ghazals. ...
Arts & Crafts
Popularising Madhubani
A FORMER correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Trideep Kumar took to Madhubani painting in 1995. Practitioners of this style have traditionally been women. Yet, he chose it as his career. Trideep was in the city recently. "Today, ...
Issues
Beggars can be choosers
The City Corporation plans to `clean' the city roads of beggars and streetchildren and put them in a new home. But detractors of the plan say an open centre with counselling facilities would be better than one where vagrants will be confined and reli giously made to obey rules.
A home away from home
The Sankara Balasramom at Govindamangalam, near Nemom, provides succour to children from poor and broken homes.
Fashion
Faded lustre
BLUE JEANS came into their own during the Great Gold Rush of California of the 1800s. It took a 20-year-old Bavarian trader called Levi Strauss to convert some cloth unfit for tents and wagon covers into trousers. But when his customers ...
Theatre
Kathakali workshop
A KATHAKALI appreciation workshop is being organised here from February 10 by the Abhinavam School of Theatre Expressions. The three-month course will be held at the Vidyadhiraja Balika Bhavan at Pattoor every day from 5-30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The ...
Webware
Ancient wisdom for modern times
The website, mailerindia.com, provides information on the Vedic way of life that ensures prosperity and good health. Read on...
Music
Sighting talent
Music brings light to their dark lives. The city-based orchestra, `Voice of the blind', has 18 members.
Cash in on cricket fever
With World Cup round the corner, many music companies have come up with albums to put cricket fans in the right mood.
Eating Out
Traditional fare
Akasha Ganga serves authentic Kerala cuisine, along with continental fare.
Cuisine
RECIPE OF THE WEEK
Add sugar to 400 ml of water and make a sugar syrup of 3-thread consistency. Sieve flour and salt together to mix them thoroughly. Rub in the ghee till it resembles breadcrumbs. Then add water and knead it to make a hard dough. Roll into a ...
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World Cup on the Web
EVEN A cursory search using well-known tools such as Google or Altavista for Internet resources on the cricket World Cup throws up hundreds of websites -- good, bad and ugly. The last time around, cricket on the Internet was something of a ...
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