Life is, how you live, what you make out of it. All easy expressions, to read and listen to, but what if one encountered extreme mental, emotional and physical pains and emerged alive and healthy? One can only imagine or read about such a life, here is a chance to meet the person who has actually experienced life in its fullness. Marina Nemat, author and a true hero.
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Communication Is His Elixir |
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Passionate about his craft, he demands respect for his skills. He is someone who finds pure joy in creating and chooses to celebrate that joy uncompromisingly. Can creativity and compromise share a platform? Over to Khalid Mohamed, journalist, writer, filmmaker and above all a beautiful human being…
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Respect For The Written Word |
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Webzines, e-books and self publishing being the name of the game, there maybe one too many writers. But it takes true grit and perseverance to keep writing, narrating one tale after another. Musharraf Ali Farooqi, believes literature is ageless. Born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, he is at home in Canada as well as in New York. Author, novelist, translator, Musharraf talks about his passion, the written word…
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Backwaters of Kerala to Calgary |
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Ananth Mahadevan thinks Niagara Falls is breathtakingly beautiful. Masala dosas, kalan, olan and pacchadi made by his mother, are, to die for. He says idly is one of the safest foods and vegetarian south Indian food is perhaps the only scientifically balanced diet. Passionate about places, passionate about food and passionate about his craft.
Here is presenting actor, director Anantha Mahadevan in one shot…
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by Irina Kazakevic
As an elementary school teacher, long term yoga practitioner and a yoga teacher, I have been doing yoga with my students for many years. Relying on my experience and training, I aim to structure and design my own classes to make them age appropriate as well as fun.
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Sushmita Sen was crowned Miss Universe 1994 and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was Miss World the same year, it indeed is one of the many feathers in Sathya Saran’s cap. Saran joined editor Femina in 1993. There has not been a single moment throughout that has been uneventful. Be it her books, her articles, her understanding of women, she is always into it. She merges yet retains herself, a true woman to the core...
That is Sathya Saran, a complete woman who creates, nurtures, nourishes, shapes and motivates…
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Heard this adage, give a lime and get a pickle? Well, not just lime, anything including a lemon, raw mango, green chillies or even carrots can be pickled. Any fruit or vegetable preserved in salt, oil, or brine and lot of spices (specially if it is Indian) is pickle. An interesting addition to this is, seafood and meat pickle too.
Imagine shapely baby cucumbers in vinegar. Ditto, imagine baby, tender mangoes in salt brine. Indian homes or most south Indian homes make tender (whole) mango pickle called vadu manga. A relish enjoyed with a big helping of curd rice.
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Deepa Mehta: On The Go... |
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By Ranga Rajah
She needs no introduction to lovers of cinema. Her elements are Fire, Earth and Water…
Deepa Mehta as we all know her is known for making thought provoking films.
What inspires her to make films as varied as, lives of widows in Varanasi (Water) to partition in the subcontinent, (1947-Earth) to domestic violence (Heaven On Earth) and last but not the least, homosexuality (Fire)?
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