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Caring right from the heart
The care comes right from the heart. Children, lost and emotionally orphaned, have found new life in Dil Se, a home run by Cultural Academy for Peace (CAP), an NGO based in Kochi. VANAJA VARMA meets the kids.
Pets Care
How to choose your kitten...
FOR ALL those who sent in mails asking a fair share for kitty, here's what to look for when choosing a kitten: Start with the face: Clear bright eyes, clean nostrils, discharge free clean ears and pink gums indicate top health. Add a ...
Arts & Crafts
Shutter images
DEEPTHI P. Vasu's exhibition opened this week, bringing into view canvases rich with myth, coated with symbolism. In a series labelled `Maze,' which also lends itself as the title of the ongoing display at Kashi Art Café, her continuing ...
Issues
Of humane verdicts
CIGARETTE SMOKING is injurious to health. We all know that, sans this statutory warning, don't we? But people continue to smoke and pass on the smoke to non-smokers too, making them passive smokers. All that would change, one thought, in 1998, ...


Getting away from Twilight Zone
THE POLICE stop a speeding car on the streets of the city. The mechanics, who rip the car apart, find welded under the metal floor board, nearly 52 kg of heroin, which must be worth over Rs. 15 crores and the power to `turn on' millions of ...
What B-schools are all about
MANAGEMENT EDUCATION is booming in Kerala. Business schools are mushrooming all over the State. Where there was one School of Management Studies in Cochin University of Science and Technology earlier, today, there are some 15 plus all over the ...
Fashion
Beauty for a cause
SOMETIMES A beauty pageant can be a wee bit different which makes all the difference -the Rotary Beauty pageant organised recently at Le Meridien by the Rotary Greater Cochin was unique in its purpose. Here the fair faced and graceful beauties ...
A tack the right way
Embroidery's subtle dominance over garments is undisputed and the simple use of needle and thread provides a long lasting fashion feel.
Music
Mesmerising ragas from the bamboo
ONE HAS very often come across the remark that, had a particular artiste in Carnatic music fixed his base in Chennai, he would have been much in vogue. K. S. Gopalakrishnan, who suffuses the Hindustani element to the Carnatic flute to produce a ...
Sport
Clinton, awaiting his turn at the `Jetty' of fame
K. J. Clinton has set out to achieve what his cousin Jetty Joseph failed to do. STAN RAYAN profiles the youngster and dwells on the College Games where the setting stole the show.
Cuisine
WHAT'S COOKIN'
NO ONE really knows how ginger was discovered, for it has been cultivated from time immemorial. It is known that ginger was used in Chinese cooking at least 2500 years ago. This plant is a rhizome and has its origins in Asia be it China, ...
Green Notes
Fantastic ferns
Boston fern looks beautiful in hanging baskets, ideal for both indoor as well as outdoor decoration.
Travel
Thrill on the hills
WANNA HAVE some fun on the hills?We've seen the Narens and Hari Singhs race through the hairpin bends of Munnar now here's your chance to slice through the hills. Speed may not be the only winning factor this Sunday but certainly, fuel efficiency ...
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