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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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Telling stories: A group of women mill around a tap, arranging plastic containers and buckets in a complicated queue | Read
SLIDESHOW
Tennis aces
Ivanovic replaced fellow Serb Jelena Janokovic, who enjoyed just one week as number one. Ivanovic had led the rankings since June 9, after her victory at the French Open.
ASTROLOGY
GEMINI (May 21 - Jun 21)
The Moon is now moving for two days through your chart area of friends and future plans.  Definitely a time to be surrounded by team mates, colleagues, companions, the more the merrier as far as you are concerned. You will get oodles of support and quite a few helpful hints. You will attract confidence from other people which they would not disclose to anyone else. You are interested in deeper matters now.
Dalli: A guide to a very lonely planet
There is a place in India known by many names that has captured my morbid fantasies for a while now.
Bye bye to the baklava
Join the queue winding down Hughes Road on August 19 to buy the Parsi-Pateti goodies when the Sir Rattan Tata Industrial Institute (RTI) opens its doors at 9 am.
Pipe dreams
A group of women mill around a tap, arranging plastic containers and buckets in a complicated queue. As the tap splutters to life, the camera zooms in.
At home with prejudice
Despite the cosmopolitan image of the city, its north-eastern population is no stranger to prejudice. Men and women with oriental features say they face discrimination “always”.
Troublesome threesome
The problem lies with the French language; it manages to make everything sound sexy. For instance “voulez-vous du beurre” just sounds more intimate than “do you want some butter?”
Cluster Bombing
For most people, the appeal of Mumbai’s distinct skyline comes from its variety—from the stately structures of Fort to the bustling chaos of Kalbadevi or the bazaars of Girgaum.
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