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Hooked ‘n’ booked!
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’Neither a borrower nor a lender be’, goes the adage. But there is an exception to the rule!
The concept of lending libraries dates far back to the Roman Empire, where Greek and Latin scrolls were available in the dry sections of buildings that made ...
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Bike rider…
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When Dhanush’s father gives his jobless son Rs70,000 and asks him to spend it any which way he wants, you expect him to either go on a drinking spree that could make for a good sob story or set up a business that could form ...
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In a ’league’ of their own
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This happens regularly in a local corporation ground in the city when the place is filled with aspiring cricketers. Youngsters, in the hope of getting a ’chance’ to play in the prestigious middle pitch, plead with the older boys who usually deny them a chance. ...
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’I am a bathroom painter’
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Dimple Kapadia likes to be seen, not heard. Ask her for an interview, and she comes up with, "What do I have to say?"
Prod her a little, and she opens up. "I am feeling good these days and looking forward to each day as ...
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A justice served
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Statue: Justice Huncerford Tudor Boddam
Location: Inside May Day (Napier) Park.
Sculptor: CV & Sons, Vepery, Madras
Though the statue of Justice Boddam is now seen at the first corner of May Day Park, behind the Simpson’s on ...
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Diverse delicacies
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"I strongly believe that from a clean kitchen you get good food," says Balagurunathan, Corporate Chef at the Asiana Hotel. He proudly shows me around his very well-planned, thoughtfully laid out, spotless kitchen with state-of-the-art-equipment. ...
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’I’m proud of women who are stylish’
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Unprecedented, matchless, incomparable... That’s what her name ’Benazir’ means, and she has indeed lived up to all those adjectives. Scholar, daughter, politico, wife, mother, patriot, not necessarily in that order, the former prime minister of ...
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