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India, Sept. 26 -- Two bar dancer girls walked up to the Ramlila stage in the eastern Uttar Pradesh city of Mirzapur this autumn, performing to a titillating Bollywood number - to celebrate the 'swayamvar' (wedding) of Rama and Sita.

Il faut souffrir pour etre belle. As always, the French say it the best but it seems to be a truth universally acknowledged by all women that one must suffer to be beautiful.

When it comes to Chinese food, I judge restaurants by their fried rice. If a kitchen can?t turn out a good fried rice, the rest of the food will be pretty lousy too.

India, Sept. 26 -- What makes a complete deed? The deed (karma) in which the soul (atma) is infused is a complete deed - it's a deed done with karmatma.

In designing and thinking about policy to promote economic development, it is a handicap not to know the fundamental causes of economic growth. The only greater handicap is to believe that one knows the fundamental causes of economic growth. It is, of course, useful to be acquainted with the theory and to be familiar with the statistics. But in the end there is no substitute for commonsense.

They graduated from being small time pickpockets to snatchers to owners of a hotel in Paharganj and a cable television network.

We used to spend all our summers up there. I was a child in Delhi and, before the swarming heat of the city became unbearable, our family would escape to the mountains, curling Dad's military green Ambassador up and round the sloping roads until the air ran clear and the hum of everyday life dropped away with the ant-like towns below. It was so beautiful.

Armed with a Rs 150-crore budget for branding and advertising and a brand new couple to deliver its messages to consumers this year, the MIRC Electronics-owned brand, Onida, has finally buried its iconic devil, the decades-old mascot that had already seen one burial and resurrection earlier.

There has been a fair amount of excitement about public sector stocks in recent weeks, with a reasonably high-profile IPO in NHPC, and more like Oil India in the pipeline. There are also at least two PSU-focussed mutual funds in the pipeline ? from Religare and SBI. Naturally, there has been analyses of these companies? business, financials and their future prospects.

When students of retail marketing from the Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow visited the weekly Nakkhas market in the old city on Sunday, they were amazed to see some roadside vendors selling wristwatches dipped in a tub of water.

For IT professional Smriti Bhalla, work involves long hours in front of the computer. So at the end of the day, Bhalla is more than just ordinarily tired. ?I have a burning sensation in my eyes and my neck hurts so much, I have to take medicine or use a hot water bottle to kill the pain,? says Bhalla.

India, Sept. 12 -- Muffin top. Tummy roll. Wobbly bit. Call it what you will, but a little roll of fat has had the fashion world convulsed over the past fortnight or so. It has launched a thousand blog posts, featured in discussion programmes on television, and been dissected to death (only metaphorically, I hasten to add) in magazines and newspapers.

What's the thing with teaching children about money? How does one do it? There are so many issues involved, isn't it? What the importance of money is in the scheme of things; why one should value it, but not think the world of it; how much of it one has; whether it is avaricious/ambitious to covet more of it; why one does not have as much of it as the fellow who lives down the road; why th

Legend of Katha is a game that you would neither scornfully brush aside nor be wonderstruck by. The creators of this game ? ACK Media ? have developed this specifically for casual gamers, who are new to real-time online gaming, and kept it easy and simple.

The popular traditional publishing houses like Chandamama and Amar Chitra Katha have jumped onto the new media bandwagon and started their own websites.

If conserving energy matters to you, then go ahead and read this. Otherwise overlook this piece. Recycling, renewing and rainwater harvesting, three words that seem to have become the only way to go green. And if you?re the kind who wonders what happens to the water in the pool of a hotel or the food that goes waste after dinner every day, then maybe here?s a spot that you must visit.

The red mirror-work awning shimmered as light from the earthen lamps flickered off it. The twang of the ektara marked the twilight. Then the strings moved and the ?actors? twitched to life. Amar Singh Rathore fought valiantly and chopped off the heads of the invaders who had made life miserable for the people of Merta. Then the ?actors? fell in a heap on the ground.

In a recent decision, the Supreme Court has approved 50 per cent reservation for the weaker sections in private institutions. The move could prove to be helpful if the benefit was shared universally by all the members in whose name such provisions are granted.

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- The consultancy, in an independent study, advises India to walk the green path by grabbing opportunities in environmentally friendly business opportunities while cutting back on harmful fossil fuels.

Karan was 17 when he first played the popular online game Counterstrike. Soon, an entire evening was not enough and he started skipping classes, eventually bunking school entirely.