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Price of being Soha

DIVA Soha Ali Khan talks about her life before and after films.RANA SIDDIQUI

 
Youngsters choose their own icons. Some choose Shah Rukh Khan as their role model. Others root for Soha Ali Khan for, as Mahim Gupte, a student of DPS, Delhi, says, “she is a blend of beauty, intellect and grace”. Mahim is right.
Despite being […]

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Racy Duel
Mika Hakkinen and Michael Schumacher duel in Belgium during the height of their rivalry. The two drivers rought the best out of the other, and are engaged in a legendary feud. This video has the bonus of the two men discussing the overtaking move.
Watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4uNSYTnhnA&feature=related or search “Hakkinen vs. Schumacher”.

Look-alike Treat […]

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Music Unlimited

MOTHERSHIP
Jimmy’s latest attempt to reissue oft-ruminated Zeppelin material turns out to be a souvenir for post-modern pseuds. So the next time you find someone in the middle of a self-proclaimed rock ’n roll revolution, buy this CD for them. But don’t forget to flick that snazzy inlay off the case — it’s got David Fricke’s […]

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Think About This - Responses

Responses to the photograph published last week.

Congrats! The first three letters win prizes from Kobbler.
Rumi proved wrong
“The thirsty seek water and the water also seeks the thirsty,” sang the 13th century Sufi poet Jalaluddin Rumi. But the picture shows a sky dark with clouds and empty pots waiting, perhaps forever. And one has miles to […]

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Chew it right

How you eat makes a difference to the nutrients you absorb.

Proper digestion, absorption, and elimination are all part of a healthy digestive system. Any foods that are not completely digested become useless for our body.
Chewing food properly helps break food into smaller particles for better nutrient absorption in the small intestines.
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Where’s my cape? Few tennis players have put away a lob as convincingly and athletically as Pete Sampras. One commentator called the leaping slam-dunk smash “Pete’s only concession to theatrics”. While the assertion is dubious, the hang-time the 6ft 1in American managed when he took off was scary. Watch a collection of Sampras’s best or […]

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Fix It

Problems with friends, parents, teachers? Share it with us. Arundhati Swamy, a professional counsellor, will put you back on track.
I’m a 19 year old guy and I’m very fond of my girlfriend. We’ve been going out for a year. Everything’s going great except for one thing - she just refuses to take the next step. […]

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Heady scent plays souvenir!

PSYCHO TALK Find out how our sense of smell can take us on an emotional ride. NAVIN RAMALINGAM SHANMUGARAJAN

 
Your sense of smell, for some biological reason, has a stronger relationship with your emotional memory than your other senses do. Simply put, what you smell is more emotion-driven than what you see, hear, taste or feel.
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The great Indian campus novel

 
BETWEEN THE COVERSIt’s a good start but this genre has a long way to go. PRADEEP SEBASTIAN

Six out of every 10 Indian campus novels now sell an average of 4,000 copies, making each a bestseller. The trend kicked in when Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone sold more than 50,000 copies. Having been a long-time fan […]

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Toonscape

Another era: Apart from Gandhigiri, what about applying Gandhian principles to our lives?
Sent by Parnika Singhania, Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Annanagar
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