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Geeta Doctor 12:09 AM | June 27,2008
It was an institution that once defined the city known as Madras, now called Chennai. The Woodlands Drive-in has been razed to the ground by official diktat. Memories, however, don’t go away that easily
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Geeta Doctor 06:24 AM | June 06,2008
An old property that once used to be a part of the British-owned Madura Mills, now Coats Vyella, is being renovated into an urban resort. Heritance Madurai is an amalgam of the past and present
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Geeta Doctor 10:59 PM | June 01,2008
He started out teaching management at a college in Chennai. But in two decades, ‘Hot Breads Mahadevan’ has stirred the batter with just the right amount of style and timing to make even his native food a fashion statement
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Geeta Doctor 11:20 PM | May 07,2008
At a time when countries in the neighbourhood are eyeing markets in the West, Thai designers are thinking Asian
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Geeta Doctor 11:31 PM | March 23,2008
Sculptor S Nandagopal’s themes are taken from the rich texture of Indian mythology, but his inspiration is from daily life
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Geeta Doctor 11:31 PM | February 10,2008
Chandralekha transformed the staid traditions of south Indian dance by stripping it down to its primal essence with a series of compositions that evoked both admiration and dismay. While her greatest triumphs were in the West and Japan, she always returned to her base in Chennai, called Spaces
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Geeta Doctor 11:25 PM | January 10,2008
A 10-year interaction with children at the Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh has resulted in an anthology of poetry that was recently published by the Sahitya Akademi
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Geeta Doctor 02:10 AM | November 30,2007
The RmKv sari brand was first borne on the slim shoulders of a Bangalore girl who we now know as Deepika Padukone
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Geeta Doctor 12:39 AM | October 26,2007
When the Nizam of Hyderabad’s fabulous jewels were put on display at the Salar Jung Museum, the crowds had to be kept under check by armed guards
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Geeta Doctor 12:26 AM | October 26,2007
Jagdish and Kamla Mittal’s dream of setting up a museum with their collection of rare Indian artefacts still seems distant. A new book featuring the collection has just been released
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Geeta Doctor 01:12 AM | October 05,2007
At ice-cream parlours in Mangalore and Udipi in Karnataka, eating ice cream is serious business. It’s also a ritual
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Geeta Doctor 12:27 AM | August 31,2007
The just-concluded Chennai Heritage Week was a coming together of the many different strands of the city’s past, in an atmosphere full of nostalgia
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Geeta Doctor 12:27 AM | August 31,2007
It is a small book that has travelled all over the world
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Geeta Doctor 12:06 AM | June 22,2007
Chennai is not only famous for its ‘biggest little bookshop’, it is also host to the bigger names in the trade
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Geeta Doctor 11:50 PM | June 21,2007
Stylish, impersonal megastores are fast replacing the small, intimate bookshop with its well-informed owner
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