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A hit recipe
Exciting new ingredients are being added to turn out that perfect box-office bonanza, writes K. Jeshi
Citylife

Just say hello Greet lingo
With people preferring to answering their phones with a hi or yo, is the old faithful, hello, on its way out?
Profiles

Yuktaa in a new role
Yuktaa Mookhey talks about her latest release, Memsahab — Lost in Mirage


Tackling the D word
Meet Fulbright Scholar, Heather Lanthorn, who is researching for her doctorate in Public Health
Carry on, doctor!
Actor Boman Irani talks about his role as Dr. Ya in “Love Story 2050”
Arts And Entertainment

Battle of the sexes
This dance show with a difference on Star One
Columns

WHAT WOMEN WANT -- DEEPA ALEXANDER
Return to innocence

With credible estimates ranging from 60 to 115 million, India has the largest number of working children in the world. Whether they are sweating in the heat of stone quarries, working in the fields 16 hours a day, picking rags in city streets, ...


Poverty mapping, a must

Despite all odds

Be sensitive
In a scenario where even adult labourers are denied minimum/equal wages — children are even more economically exploited. Girls and boys are equally vulnerable to sexual abuse, as reported by many of the children we work with. But the ...
Girls, more vulnerable

Punish offenders
Most children who are involved in child labour come from broken homes or are destitute. We rehabilitate many children who are picked up from railway stations and bus stands who are either lost or abandoned. With some families, counselling works ...
Gender

Maid to order
PEOPLE Women are obsessed with cleanliness because girls are trained from an early age to be clean, says C.K. MEENA
Music

Beatstreet
Art Blakey was one of the greatest drummers in the be-bop and hard bop idioms of jazz, and had a big hand in the evolution of the latter genre.

In the early 1950s, he took a keen interest in the African percussion roots of the rhythms that ...
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Undisputed at 70
He might have turned 70 this month, but Superman still rules the collective unconscious as the crime-fighting Man of Steel


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