Redemption songs

The Guardian:When Alice Walker was eight, growing up in Georgia, her brother shot her in the eye while playing with a pellet gun. A passing white motorist in the Jim Crow South refused to stop, and by the time she reached a doctor, her right eye was...

Travel Abroad 16 Jan, 2005

CREDOS: Reconciliation — I

Do blacks go to heaven? My mother said we do. But as a child I wondered: So why are angels always depicted as white, writes Muhammad Ali, the legendary boxer. When My youngest child, Asaad, was about four years old, he said something that brought tears...

16 Jan, 2005

‘Open Water’ filmmakers survive tsunami

Associated Press:Los Angeles: Husband-and-wife filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau escaped being pulled into a real-life version of their shark thriller Open Water while vacationing in Thailand. Kentis and Lau were among hundreds of foreign tourists...

Travel Abroad 03 Jan, 2005

Aussie croc hunter in trouble again

SYDNEY: Australian crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, widely criticised in January for hand-feeding a croc while holding his baby son, was in deep water again Monday for getting too close to whales in Antarctica. Irwin said his company Best Picture Show was...

Travel Abroad 14 Jun, 2004

Pools for zoo inmates to beat heat

Himalayan News ServiceLalitpur, May 11:The animals at the Jawalakhel central zoo are going to have a cool-cool time this year. With enough swimming pools and natural shades constructed to relieve them from the scorching heat, zoo officials are...

Horoscopes 12 May, 2004

TIME OUT

Birendra Shield ends DOLAKHA: The Birendra Shield Inter-school Sports meet organised after a gap of 12 years concluded here on Sunday. In the competition, Hanumanteswar Higher Secondary School, Kavre, Betyaswar Secondary School, Namdu and Rising Star...

11 May, 2004

LUX BEAUTY STARS 2004

Monalisa Adhikari Confident enough Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu:Standing 5’5”, this Capricorn has no dearth of confidence, as Monalisa declares that she wants to be an ambassador from Nepal to any country. She is not a kind of girl one can...

Travel Abroad 09 May, 2004

Gufsuf

Kunnal plays ‘heroine’ MUMBAI: “I play the heroine in Meenaxi. I’m there for the romance and the item songs,” Kunnal Kapoor, the debutant stars with Tabu in M F Husain’s film, told. He candidly admits that the whole film revolves around...

Travel Abroad 04 May, 2004

Arathis Gurung is fulfilling a dream

Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu:The youngest contestant at the Lux Beauty Star 2004 contest is Arathis Gurung. At 17, she still retains her childlike innocence and loves fun and frolic. She stands at 5’4” and says her interest include modelling and...

Travel Abroad 04 May, 2004

Seven deadly gym sins

The GuardianLondon:Gyms and swimming pools in particular, should be the natural habitat of the over-zealous rule-maker. For one thing, they explicitly ban dive-bombing, spitting and heavy petting, things you might reasonably consider bad manners in...

Travel Abroad 01 May, 2004

The vanguard of poetic movements

Yuyutsu RD SharmaKathmandu:Like I had no choice in choosing my birthplace, I was destined to be a poet,” ponders major Nepali poet Shailendra Sakar on his creative journey beginning from his birthplace Bhojpur in the remote western Nepal. “And I...

Travel Abroad 24 Apr, 2004

The impression of good parenting

The GuardianLondon:Now that the summer holidays are here, you and your brood are likely to be on full outdoor display. Doors and windows are flung open, allowing the neighbours to hear your screaming rows. Picnics in parks and days out at the seaside...

Travel Abroad 16 Apr, 2004