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Feature: You Are Your Closet!

You are your closet! Let`s sift the cottons from the chiffons and help you get your sartorial act together. You are your closet. It’s true, we swear to it. A closet is a form of philosophy, a world in its essence. The act of selecting your clothes, accessories and your look, calls for a Zen-like…

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Feature: Clothes Maketh The Woman

 Clothes maketh the woman Always be well dressed. Grunge is no longer in. Here, Sheila Kumar reprises some of your mama’s favourite sayings and some she wouldn’t dream of saying! Let me tell you a secret: The well dressed man or woman scores over the take-me-as-I-am person. Each and every time. Clothes really do make…

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Travel: Montserrat, Spain

Serrated peaks   The clouds are thin and swirling, obscuring everything one moment, parting to reveal the curiously shaped stones of the mountain, the next. “I get a lot of this weather back where I live, in the southern hills in India,’’ I tell my fellow coach-travellers, only to meet with much disbelief. Alas, India’s…

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Travel: Great Ocean Road, Australia

  Their hearts still go on SHEILA KUMAR travels along Australia’s Great Ocean Road and tells the tale of the ill-fated Loch Ard and its two survivors.  IT is a spectacular ride by any and every standard. The Great Ocean Road which starts at Geelong, 75 km from Melbourne, and which winds up at Nelson…

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Feature: The Beauty Business

The cosmetics industry is both bloating and gloating, even as it grows rich on the aspirations of a billion aspirants. We, of course, are a nation of billions. Billions whose aspirations run the gamut. We aspire to more money, bigger cars, better houses. We aspire to fairer skin, slimmer silhouettes, glossy hair. We aspire to…

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Feature: All Those Tall Tales!

Tall Tales Some beliefs are handed down by word of mouth, some come down the generations and soon, they become gospel truth. Sheila Kumar busts the myths associated with them You know the stories we are talking about. Glimpsing a black cat and anticipating bad luck. Throwing salt over your shoulder every time you spill…

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Feature: Where`s The Party Tonight?

WHERE’S THE PARTY TONIGHT? With the right strategy, you can have a good time. Let`s make sure you do. The disclaimer ought to come right at the start, that this is not the party where you make a grand entrance with your gang of girls/boys, where you eat, drink and are merry, exiting on a…

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Travel: The Mango Tree, Hampi

Idylls of a king The Mango Tree Hampi, Bellary District USP: Hampi-trawlers  get to relax beside a river. It’s all co-related. Visitors to the Rome of south India (indeed maybe of all the East), Hampi, know better than to rush through the many ruins and then, rush back to their cities. Those who come to Hampi…

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Travel: Tracking the Ganga

A river’s avatars In which I undertake a journey to gaze at the Ganga, all the way up to Badrinath. IT is a somewhat surreal situation. I’m sitting in a small room 3,133 metres above sea level, literally in the lap of snow-capped mountains. A voice, speaking in fluent Hindi laced with a hill patois,…

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Travel: Taliparamba, Kerala

Where the bells ring  The small town of Taliparamba near Kannur is famous for its many temples Even in a state that throws up one fresh tourist spot after another, the small town of Taliparamba, 20 km north of Kannur, lies a little off the beaten track. Basically a spread of about 47 villages, the…

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