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Soles on fire!
PRELIMS If you thought The Hindu NXg Campus Jive was only about dance, the auditions would have proved you wrong. MADHUMITHA SRINIVASAN
There were a few great dancers who, all alone, kept their team’s performance together; teams with awesome chemistry on-stage; performers who made you laugh, think or just enjoy the sequence with their expressions […]
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A cock and bull story
BIG SCREEN
Movie: Kanthaswamy
Cast: Vikram, Shriya Saran, Prabhu, Vadivelu.
An insight into the making of ” Kanthasaamy”-
Susi Ganesan(narrating the script to Vikram): …And with that, the hero finally punishes the villain and justice is served. What do you think?
Vikram: Yeah…Sounds promising.. But think about it for a second- man fights against system, corruption, rich get richer etc […]
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Champs on air
Are you capable of screaming out “Good Morning, Chennai!” in such a decibel that you can wake up the city’s sleeping population early in the morning? Do you have a special talent for being able to talk on just about any topic for any duration of time? Can you think on your feet and most […]
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Weekly Movie Quiz
How much do you know about “Quick Gun Murugan”? Ten lucky people with the correct answers will win two passes each to a show in Inox. Send in your answers with your name, address and contact details to: contests.nxg@gmail.com. Entries sent to a different id or posted on the website will not be accepted.
1. When […]
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Against all odds
I have always been one of those unabashedly enthusiastic Potter fans with the characteristic maniacal gleam in their eyes. So it was no surprise that, on my repeated recommendations, a good friend of mine (who just happens to be a girl) wanted to give the Harry Potter books a try. We then decided to meet […]
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Demo-crazy!
Cartoons are a favourite with little children as they can de-stress those watching them. But elders don’t like to sit in front of the TV to watch cartoons, as it is labelled a programme for children. But, there is certainly an interesting live programme which makes elders’ life stress- free; Indian politics. Indian politics is […]
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Lenseye
Off Track: Support of a different kind.
Sent by: J. PRIYADHARSHINI, Final Year, SRR Engineering College
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Breakthrough Act
Magnus Carlsen
One sport where words like ‘precocious’ and ‘prodigy’ are used with regularity and habitual ease, so much so that it threatens to strip these words of their grandeur, scale and their fledgling incredulity, is chess. Yet, Magnus Carlsen in January 2008 restored to such appraisals their original splendour and awe. The group ‘A’ of […]
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Return of Mr. Reliable
FANS SPEAK of a strong player at heart who has learnt the art of surviving. JEEVA PITCHAIMANI
Rahul Dravid is one of the few cricketers who was weathered away by the “Youth Storm” which struck the Indian cricket team post World Cup-2007 victory. The decision to drop him was a shocker to many, especially for […]
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Striking it big
YOUNG LIKE US A change in technique heralded a swing of fortune for Darshan Veeraraghavan. KARTHIK KRISHNASWAMY
“The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things,” the American novelist John Updike once wrote. Anyone who’s swung a stick at a small ball will nod in […]
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