The Hindu Business Line : Monday, March 09, 2009

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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