Archive for February 2009
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Year full of don’ts
“Remember that you are going to face the board exams this year”. “This is the first step that you are going to take towards your future”. Avoid TV, (called “idiot box by George Bernard Shaw”, but thought as a box of necessity by today’s youngsters) entertainment, sports, etc, for a year”.” Forget everything other than […]
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Good music makes a comeback!
REVIVAL The first few releases of the year are proof that 2009 is good for music, predicts NANDITA VIJAYRAGHAVAN.
Since 2009 began, much has gone into headlines and history: Obama’s inauguration, Satyam’s scandal … All of which have already made 2009 a political and business landmine. But the arts? Well, 2009 seems to be the year […]
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Honest effort
BIG SCREEN
Movie: Delhi 6
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman
At one point, Pavan Malhotra calls Abhishek Bachchan who plays Roshan, a 50 – 50; that’s exactly how I would rate this movie. It’s partly good and partly bad, the movie suffers from inconsistency. Nevertheless, “Delhi 6” is an honest effort and makes many valid […]
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Coming up on TV
Thursday
The English Premier League has reached a fever pitch. Watch Newcastle United vs Everton (12 midnight) and Fulham vs West Bromwich Albion (2.30 a.m.), only on ESPN.
Friday
India’s tour to New Zealand kicks off with a Twenty20 encounter in Wellington. 11:00 a.m. on Set Max.
Saturday
The Premiership continues as Everton takes on West Bromwich Albion […]
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Glitz and Glam
Eye candy
After recording for a Rich project in London, our pardesi billi, Sophie Choudry, is busy celebrating the release of her upcoming flick “Aa Dekhe Zara”. That stars hunk Neil Nitin Mukesh along with hot babe Bipasha Basu. Wonder how much Sophie actually nets in the movie. What’s next? “My album ‘Daddy Cool’ is soon […]
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Music Unlimited
NEVER GONE
BACKSTREET BOYS
Buy? Most certainly and definitely yes!
Dislikes? Nope. That’s what makes them such perfectionists.
This has to be the best ever album of the Backstreet Boys. It is their last album as a five-member band and is based very much on their life experiences. It begins with the heart-rending single, “Incomplete” and goes on […]
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Beat the night
As a hard working sufferer in the gloriously messed up Indian high school education system, I have acquired a certain intimacy with sleepless nights and droopy eyelids. Any student worth his salt has been through this, for it is an unavoidable fact of life that exam time table always sees the hardest exams grouped together […]
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Things you can do before an exam…
I think I know what you all are thinking: “Another boring article on exams!” It is a new disease (or so I presume), not the usual exam fever that comes before D-Day but something more serious…
Symptoms
It is a disease, or more correctly a complex disorder, affecting people under examination stress (well at least me) where […]
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Multi-faceted champion
YOUNG LIKE US Upasana Upadhyay engages in three different games and comes out in flying colours. MADHUMITHA SRINIVASAN
Here’s another sportsperson who’s taken the road less familiar, at least in India. Unaware like most of us still are, Upasana Upadhyay learnt that Yoga was a competitive sport only after her family moved from Hyderabad to Chennai. […]
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It’s not just about books
LOOKING AHEAD There’s more to education than just the exams and the marks scored… DR. S. MOHAN RAJ
Board exams have acquired the status of demi-gods. They are worshipped and approached like a pilgrimage. The strict code of penance prohibits participation in sports, cultural programmes and organisational activities like school council, literary, science or service associations. […]
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