The Hindu Business Line : Friday, May 20, 2005

Good in patches!
The cloth littering Kovalam's beachfront is their medium of expression... It's an initiative that has deftly, and imaginatively, brought Gujarat's famed patchwork to faraway Kerala. More

Vanishing vistas
The weather having taken its toll, it will not be long before this tree, on the Santhome High Road in Chennai, too is axed. Widening of roads and construction of concrete pavements in the city has shorn trees off their `green ... More

CINEMA

`RDX' hits Chennai theatre
CHENNAI'S Sathyam Cinemas has become the first in India to use high-definition digital movie projection technology when it launched its RDX with the premier of Star Wars III-Revenge of the Sith. RDX stands for `real digital experience.' ... More

SHOPPING

Dazzling ware
Bangles on display at a shop near Charminar in Hyderabad. The city is one of the major production centres of bangles in the country. They are mostly produced at small-scale and cottage ... More

NATURAL CALAMITIES

When the Dec 26 quake shook the entire earth
THE earthquake that occurred on December 26 last and set off a cataclysmic tsunami that devastated several Asian nations was so powerful that no point on the Earth went undisturbed, says Dr Roger Bilham, seismologist at the University of ... More

Sea surge
The Valiathura beach in Thiruvananthapuram has been witnessing unusually strong tides in the past few days. The raging `swell' waves have eaten into the shoreline, leading to erosion and flooding in the near-by ... More