SPIRITUAL BOWL

Sunday 30 September '07

At Pune’s Vedic schools, a game of cricket can be an enlightening experience

A scribble, a CD to help retrace those early steps

Sunday 16 September '07

For most of us, memories are usually the frayed pages of a family album or the crackle of an audio tape.

Eight-fold path

Sunday 16 September '07

A journey into lush-green countryside. A journey to eight temples of the elephant-god. A discovery of faith and peace

The Walk of Life

Sunday 9 September '07

On weekends, Pune’s busiest commercial street slows down, shuts out the cars and promises to cure you of the deadline fever. All you’ve to do—let your feet do the talking

In 61st year of Independence, reinventing Mahatma’s wheel

Thursday 30 August '07

The city known for its links to the Father of the Nation is all set to get a landmark associated with him.

Missing flavours

Sunday 26 August '07

The dabbawallas of Mumbai — all from three talukas near Pune — have gained iconic status. But youngsters in these villages want to take up other jobs

Cinema Paradiso

Sunday 5 August '07

Ozu, Ray or Kiarostami? Cineastes in Pune can take their pick as the city’s burgeoning film clubs gather critical mass. The multiplexes have competition

Choppers to fly you from Mumbai to Pune

Thursday 2 August '07

Trains are passe, the e-way has been tried and tested and the two flights in a day—ferrying nearly 800 passengers—are grossly inadequate.

Pune’s film fraternity remembers a meeting with the master

Tuesday 31 July '07

When Ingmar Bergman’s last work Saraband was aired on Swedish public television in December 2003, almost a million Swedes are said to have watched it.

Reigning data on rains

Sunday 22 July '07

A website that is as popular among weathermen as it is among those with a secret hobby: tracking the rains

Sant Tukaram, Achut Kanya, parallel film fest may travel to MIT

Thursday 19 July '07

When Arundhati Banerjee, director of the India Programme at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...

‘In Love’ a bit too much for Mumbai’s moral police

Saturday 7 July '07

For Pune sculptor G L Narayan, an exhibition to commemorate his 50 years in the world of art is turning into a less than pleasant experience.

Online sorority

Sunday 8 July '07

The diary is dead. Indian women with a view are finding their voice in blogosphere. Eve-teasing to newborn babies, heartbreaks to phobias, everything is fair game...

Stored in special vaults, celluloid treasures will live up to 1,000 years

Wednesday 27 June '07

For enlightened filmmakers like Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Basu Chatterjee and Shyam Benegal, to whom the preservation of their films is as important as their making

Pune society waits for its Mighty screen premiere

Thursday 21 June '07

Feelings are mixed. Almost like they were in October last year. For even then excitement levels at Sind Co-op Housing Society in Aundh in Pune had an undercurrent of anxiety

Now, a bullock cart with music system

Tuesday 22 May '07

At Go-Sammelan, a fair held at Shimoga in Karnataka last month, among the hundreds of cattle, Puneite Chandrakant Pathak’s bullock cart, complete with two gleaming headlamps, an amplifier and a battery charger, stood out.

Weddings on song

Sunday 20 May '07

From being a prelude to D-Day, the sangeet has gone on to become the item number of the Indian wedding. eye checked out the song and dance about the knotty affair

Taming Animal Instinct

Sunday 13 May '07

A new study on leopards is set to reduce the man-animal conflict and change the manner in which it is handled

Grave truths

Sunday 6 May '07

Scientists run into India’s first cancer patient and rare genetic anomalies after studying the first human skeletons of the Painted Grey Ware (PGW) era

Doggone it

Saturday 5 May '07

I like dogs. I really do. But there is a limit. And bordering very close to this limit is waking up one morning and finding a litter of eight pups delivered by a stray in your garage.

Unholy mess

Sunday 22 April '07

Lakhs of visitors tour the wildlife sanctuary and temple at Bhimashankar, but leave behind unseemly heaps of banned plastic bags and bottles

Drug taint erased, UK backpacker walks free after 5 yrs

Thursday 12 April '07

The news that she was “innocent” and “free” was perhaps the best Easter gift Daisy Angus had received in five years.

Produce down 25 pc, Alphonso could play pricey

Saturday 7 April '07

If there’s anything that makes the April heat bearable, it’s the advent of the much awaited mango season in the state.

Class apart

Sunday 1 April '07

A class on finance is in progress. As the business school instructor explains the nuances of investments, loans and credits, the details are eagerly absorbed by the students sitting in rapt attention.

Sporting spirit

Thursday 29 March '07

The crowd was sparse. The crucial India-Sri Lanka match was on. But for the 50-odd people who came to listen to Tom Alter reading from his book, The Longest Race, instead, it was a choice well made.