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| T is as easy to be distracted by the outward glamour of a prime ministerial visit to Washington as it is to fail to discern its occasional real inner substance. Both things apply in the case of David Cameron's White House talks with Barack Obama on March 14. |
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| KONY'S VIDEOS GO VIRAL |
| I'D like to thank the makers of the "Kony 2012" video for goading me to write about Joseph Kony. With about 100 million views, it is now one of the most viral videos of all time... |
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 | Kahaani tells the thriller tale with a new twist
THIS is a great time to be a movie buff. Within a week of Paan Singh Tomar, which should incontestably win Irrfan Khan the National Award for best actor, comes Kahaani in which Vidya Balan is so
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| | Tween beauty care market growing fast | | THE other day at Kimara Ahnert's makeup and skin care studio on Madison Avenue, Sloane Kratzman, 12, was sitting on a chair, having blush applied to her cheeks, her legs dangling above the floor. She had been driven in after school from Greenwich, Connecticut, by her mother, Teresa Kratzman, a long time friend of Ahnert's, for her first makeup application lesson.
"She's taken an interest in makeup, so she might as well learn to put it on properly," the elder Kratzman said. "There's so much out there now." "All my girlfriends are wearing makeup; it's the stage," Sloane agreed. She said she reads The Zoe Report, Teen Vogue and Seventeen, and looks up to Blake Lively and Lauren Conrad for beauty tips.
"Everyone at least has lip gloss," she said. "Benefit is the hot brand right now." A sixth-grader, Sloane is part of an emerging demographic: the tween beauty sophisticate who might go to a salon for updos, facials or waxing.
Ahnert, for one, said she has regular 12-year-old clients who have their makeup done before going out to a dinner or to a bat mitzvah.
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| | PRISTINE ANDAMANS BALANCES TOURISM AND ECOLOGY | | HIGH-END diving this was not. Off the coast of Havelock, part of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, we bobbed along on a dunghi, an oversize, motorised canoe, joined by only two other divers and two guides. A plain blue tarp pulled over curved bamboo stays provided shade, and our dive gear was piled unceremoniously in the back.
Then we descended. Twenty-seven meters underwater we discovered an untrammeled paradise: Thousands of fish wove through brightly coloured coral peppered with striped crinoids, small marine animals that hold their tentacles curved like flowers. A two-meter-wide marbled stingray wafted by, as if in slow motion.
Three hours later, we were strolling along postcard-perfect Radhanagar Beach, aka Beach number seven, on Havelock's northwest side, backed by towering mahua trees. And we had it all to ourselves, save for some fastidious crabs excavating their burrows, leaving behind chrysanthemum-shaped art.
Despite their relative proximity to millions of South Asians, the 572 Andaman and Nicobar islands were largely ignored until the 21st century. Just 38 are inhabited, and most are protected from development by the Indian government, leaving endemic fauna and flora untouched, and... |
| | Small film queen better than big film bimbo | | ALTHOUGH actor Udita Goswami has done few films as part of her B-Town stint, her Bollywood repertoire fetched her sobriquet of 'bold and the beautiful', nonetheless.
This Dehradun girl has constantly been in the news; be it for her bold roles, her relationship status or her support for social causes. After creating a storm at the Box office with her debut movie Paap and films like Aksar, A g g a r , Zeher and Chase, Udita recently tried her luck at the Box office with Diary of a Butterfly.
Ask her about the long break that she had taken from the big screen and she says, "People keep telling me that I have taken a long break and I was not in news. But actually I have been busy all this time. I am regularly making appearances at some show or the other.
I am also writing my own script which I will be co-directing and acting in." About doing thriller movies constantly, she goes on and adds, "After my first few movies, I did feel that I have been typecast in thriller/suspense movies. And I never wanted to do any multi-starrer movie. I don't want to do a movie where I have four scenes and one song... |
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