The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, March 12, 2009

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LIFESTYLE: Singed & scorched but willing to move on
The Jat Sikh’s attachment to mitti (land) is well known; so is his redoubtable spirit and ability to face adversity ...

EVENTS: Celebration time
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EVENTS: Festival of colours
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SPORTS: Batting blitzes raise SET Max rating
New Delhi, March 11 The Indian cricket team’s big batting performances against New Zealand are bringing in surprising television ratings for the broadcaster SET ...

From Life

TEXTILES: To cushion the blow
Karur’s textile exporting businesses, reeling from drastic reduction in overseas orders, want more government support.. Prem Anand Sivakannan, Marketing Manager of the Karur-based Amaravathi Textiles, is one of the younger scions from the ...

WILDLIFE: Trunk call: SOS
Changing equations of man-elephant symbiosis. Eco-fanaticism often ends up eroding eco-consciousness. Take, for instance, the panic over the deaths of elephants in the Dooars-Terai region in north Bengal, or any other parts in India. “At ...

FOOD & CUISINE: Shedding weight... in a nutshell
A US-based behavioural eating expert, Dr James Painter, Professor and Chair of School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Eastern Illinois University, has devised a simple technique to remain healthy and fit, vis-À-vis sensible consumption ...

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL: Amply Abu Dhabi
‘Richest city in the world’ is more than just a transit destination. If in Abu Dhabi for a couple of days, it is your cabdriver who will hold the key to your bag of West Asian memories. Heading towards this convenient transit ...

FOREIGN RELATIONS: Clamour for peace
Rising above the sub-continental war hysteria are the brave voices that speak of friendship and healing across borders.. In a room full of people at Vithalbhai Patel House in New Delhi one bracing winter day recently, I was the only person from ...

BOOKS: Dreamland map
Before you lose sleep over it, here is a book that tries answering questions on why we dream and what is the dream trying to say to us. It is now a proven scientific fact that each of us dreams a minimum of four dreams every night and that in ...

BOOKS: Much-loved book nook
What’s your top-ten bookstore list?. Everyone has a list of their top ten books, so I figured I’d instead try a countdown of bookshops. Which, of course, required a good deal of consultation with more literary friends, considering my ...

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