September 2006
Desh Videsh September 2006 – Cover Story
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR
To be the heir to a famous name is difficult. To follow in your father’s footsteps makes things far more complex. And, if the father happens to be as legendary as the world’s greatest ever Sitar player, Pandit Ravi Shankar, then the going is indeed very, very tough. But for Anoushka Shankar, there was hardly any adverse impact in being …
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MEMORABLE FILMS OF BOLLYWOOD From start to 1970s
Someone once quipped that there are three kinds of films in the world – good films, bad films, and Hindi films. That statement may sound amusing, but it is a fact that Hindi films that churn out of Bollywood are of a totally different genre. It seems like Hindi films are being made and released nearly every Friday at a …
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Mother Tongue
The Importance of Teaching our Mother Tongue to Our Children The history of our civilization would have been a completely different story altogether if there was no verbal communication among its inhabitants. For ages together, Man has expressed his feelings – love, affection, sorrow, despair, anger, frustration, joy, ecstasy and such others – in one language or the other. An …
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Bollywood Today
What an year – 2006 !! The year 2006n literally spelled success for Bollywood as it gave six films that broke all tim1e records in terms of net income. To top the list is Dhoom-2, which has a net gross in excess of Rs 80 crores in the calendar yaer 2006. This high voltage action film starring Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek …
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Healthy Times
And who knows the benefits of Yoga better…. than Baba Ramdev !! Yoga guru Ramdev has claimed that regular practice of seven breathing exercises or ‘pranayams’ popularized by him had successfully ‘cured’ cancer within six to nine months. Practising the seven breathing exercises can cure cancer of the breast, liver, prostate, uterus, pituitary gland, brain tumours and even leukaemia. These …
