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Have a blast!
Ergo wishes all its readers a very Happy Diwali.
Plus, a Happy Extended Weekend.
Since Diwali without firecrackers is incomplete,
we bring to you the latest to hit the market (Pages 4 & 5).
Also, there will be no issue of Ergo on October 27 and 28
(Monday and Tuesday). We’ll be back on Wednesday.
Book release
Television
Sister act 4
It’s Diwali time on ‘Nach
Baliye 4’. And setting
the stage of fire will be
Sale Karisma and Kareena
who will be adorning
Concert
Bookworm’s Corner
Top 10 Bestsellers (Fiction)
1. The White Tiger - Aravinda Adiga. Rs. 395
2. Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh. Rs. 599
3. One Night @ Call Centre - Chetan Bhagat. Rs.
95
4. The 3 Mistakes of my Life - Rupa & Co. Rs. 95
5. Brida - Paulo Coelho. Rs.295
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini.
Rs.395
7. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini. Rs. 315 Little Babooshka’s Grind
8. The Final Reckoning – Sam Bourne. Rs. 295
9. A Prisoner of Birth - Jeffery Archer. Rs. 270
10. Shantaram - Gregory Roberts. Rs.475
Rock on!
Top 10 Bestsellers This weekend, original live music
(Non-fiction) This weekend presenting at the
Alliance Francaise October
lieves in original music. What
makes them stand apart is that
1. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Busi- Dhamaka – a rock show featur- this rock band has no electric
ness of Life - Alice Schroeder. Rs. 995 ing two of Chennai’s best origi- guitarist and is not looking out
2. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne. Rs.550 nal bands – Little Babooshka’s for one. Comprising Arjun
3. Stay Hungry Stay Foolish - Rashmi Bansal. Rs. Grind (LBG) and Touchwood. (bass), Vishal (vocals, acoustic
125 LBG has been known in the guitar), Cherian (keyboard) and
4. The New Paradigm for Financial - George So- circuit since 1996, playing origi- Avinash (drums), the band pre-
ros. Rs.595 nal rock music. Having com- fer to call themselves a ‘jam
5. Hot Flat & Crowded - Thomas Friedman. Rs. pleted two full-length albums band’.
595 and one professionally pro-
6. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch. Rs.295 duced video, the band consists
7. Business Striped Bare – Richard Branson.
Rs.515
of brothers Arjun (bass), Avnith What, when, where?
(lead guitar) and Aum Janaki- Event: Rock concert
8. D k Eyewitness Travel: India. Rs.480 ram (rhythm), Maynard Grant
9. What the CEO Want You to Know - Ram Cha- Timings: 7 pm, October 25
(drums) and Praveen Heinrich Venue: Alliance Francaise
ran. Rs.480 (lead vocalist).
10. Go Kiss The World - Subroto Bagchi. Rs. 399 Contact: 28271477/
Touchwood is another band, 28251165
Courtesy: Crossword hardly out of college, that be- Touchwood PHOTO: S.R. RAGHUNATHAN
04 ERGO Friday, October 24, 2008
Big Story
C
ome Monday, it’s freedom dampened the firework sales to Over 80 per cent of the shops must be lit in a large, open area. comes with a colourful head
from all your business an extent. With the sun beating on Bunder Street have taken to Kaleidoscope is priced at Rs. (green, yellow and pink) is an
meetings, client calls, down once again from Thurs- selling fireworks on Deepavali, 2,500. old but most sought-after one
brain-storming sessions day morning, the fever is back. like every year for more than in the cracker family every Di-
and cab journeys to office. It’s Ergo visited the biggest fire- four decades. Parachute Rocket wali.
the festival of lights and time to work sales den of the city, Bun- For rocket lovers, there are A pack of five Parachute
celebrate hard with a bang, der Street in Parrys Corner, to Panorama Parachute Rockets in the mar- Rockets costs Rs. 181. ■
This year, the big daddy of fi-
recrackers is the Panorama.
Coming in a big, fat box, the
piece is a guaranteed night sky
entertainer with a whopping
500 shots with just one strike of
a match to its single, thick thiri
(wick).
All one needs to do is take the
cracker to an open ground and
light the wick to enjoy an all-
colour view. The price of the
Panorama is Rs. 5,000.
Kaleidoscope
If you think the Panorama
could burn a big hole in your
pocket, opt for Kaleidoscope.
Kaleidoscope showers a display of 250 shots With 250 shots showering rain- Firecracker dealer S.K. Jaffer with the gift box
Friday, October 24, 2008
05
Dine and Dance
The Accord Metropolitan has a special Diwali
offer at Pergola on October 26, 27 and 28.
You can have a spectacular view of fireworks,
while enjoying your food with your family. For
reservations please call 2816 1000.
For the
FAINT-HEARTED
Village
Louis XIV
Louis XIV
owned 413
beds.
Y
ou can use it to cheer on a door music festival as the protes- of the Horlicks drink. The advertisement asserted on
rock band, take to the mall ters press their campaign against the channel that children who drank Horlicks were
or, why not, try to overthrow government, which they say is a ‘taller, stronger, sharper’ than other children. However,
a government – the latest corrupt proxy for ousted and ex- ASA said that Nepali TV did not offer any comment
must-have among Thailand’s iled premier Thaksin Shinawatra. during investigations but eventually withdrew the
protest set is a plastic, hand- “It’s the fashion,” said the same advertisement.
shaped clapper. woman, who did not want to give PTI
The clack-clack-clack of the her name. “You don’t have to use
multi-coloured hands has reso- your hands – it’s easy and conve-
nated throughout Bangkok dur- nient.” Kiat Chan, proud owner
ing the months-long campaign of three clappers, says the pro- White-powder letters
by the People’s Alliance for De- testers started using them about a
mocracy (PAD) to bring down the week after their street demon- hit more banks
nation’s elected government. strations began in May. Four Chase bank branches in Phoenix and the New
In fact, it’s spawned a little bit The ‘mue tob’ – Thai for hand York Times headquarters in New York received
of a minor industry: one vendor clap – has become an unlikely envelopes containing a suspicious white powder on
outside Government House – symbol of the anti-government Wednesday as a wave of threatening U.S. mailings
currently occupied by the protes- movement, and the clappers can spread. More than 45 threatening letters have been
ters – says she sells up to 100 now be seen at concerts, sports received since Monday at financial institutions in at
clappers a day. events and shopping malls across least 11 states, FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said.
The average price is 25 baht the capital. “Most of the letters contain a powder substance with a
(nearly one dollar), depending on The Venetian-style Govern- threatening communication,” he said. No harmful
the size. Or you can opt for the ment House is now the centre of substances have yet been identified but more tests are
flashing light version at 35 baht. an organised tent city that being conducted at regional laboratories, he said. U.S.
“I broke one clapper so now I stretches across blocks of the authorities are always on the alert for such letters after
have a new one. When you get capital’s historic district. the anthrax threat in 2001.
very excited you wave it very “You can use it to say to Thai Reuters
hard,” explained a middle-aged ministers, ‘Get out and go to
woman at the grounds of the hell!” said PAD supporter Sui,
prime minister’s offices at Go- holding an outsize clapper which
vernment House.
The area, seized in August, has
cost her 60 baht. “It’s very, very
fun and you use it very loud.” ■
Posh poses in sari
Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham will delight
since taken on the air of an out- AFP
Indian fans as cover girl for the Vogue India
November issue dressed as an Indian bride in a
sari. Commenting upon her new image, she said:
“I’ve never played safe with my image.”
Beckham has been living in Hollywood for the
last 18 months with her family and has been
working on her fashion ranges. The magazine
will hit the stands within a week, reports
thesun.co.uk. Meanwhile, David Beckham is set
to move from the Los Angeles Galaxy football
club to AC Milan in January.
IANS
Technorama
A Scrabble board made with more than
30,000 Swarovski crystals and valued at
20,000 dollars is being auctioned online
to mark 60 years of the popular word-
building game.
SNIPPETS
SOURCED FROM
’Ntertainment assured T3 MAGAZINE OF
Two new Nseries blowers crowd the multimedia
phone bazaar
INFOMEDIA 18
The Nseries portfolio of Nokia’s multimedia
phones welcomes two new members this month,
LIMITED
making life difficult for those like us who can’t
make up their minds on what they like. Both
justify inclusion in the family by flaunting
impressive features such as 3.5G HSDPA, WiFi,
5-meg snappers with Carl Zeiss optics, FM
transmitters, N-gage gaming, geotagging and GPS Cruise down avenue Q
navigation abilities. While the N79 can be Audi’s new Q5 aims for world domination
customised using Xpress-on covers, the N85 boasts Surely only the criminally insane would launch a new SUV
of a 2.6inch OLED display. Choices choices... TBC, these days. Audi appear perfectly lucid, though, and the new
www.nokia.com Q5 is their dastardly masterplan to take the game to BMW’s
ubiquitous X5. The Q5 might be an SUV but there’s more
emphasis on sport than utility. The prole-frightening front
grill sits in front of some serious planet-bothering muscle in
the form of either a diesel or petrol engine. Packed full of
tech, it’s superbly engineered. Just prepare to be pelted with
organic dairy products if you use one on the school run.
Top speed: 224kmph, 0-100 kmph in 6.5-seconds.
Wheels: 19 inch
A climate controlled drinks holder is available as an option,
Digit-al entertainment! so your beverage of choice remains chilled (or hot)
TBC, www.audi.com
Mini-keyboard, Max fun
All rise. The ultra-sleek Logitech
diNoVo Mini, a palm-sized keyboard
with media remote and ClickPad is
here. If you are the sorts who liaisons
with two hotties - in this case your PC
and TV - the highly compact keyboard
will make your life easy. It features
backlighting and an innovative
ClickPad, which can be used as a
touch pad to point, scroll and click -
or as a directional pad to navigate
menus and make selections. The mini-
keyboard uses Bluetooth 2.0 wireless
technology for unfettered use from
the sofa or anywhere in the living
room. Plus, it looks terribly cool.
Rs 9,495. www.logitech.co.in
Have a blast
Mr Big screen Throw a tune
True to life Get Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! The
BenQ E2200HD, the world’s first USB device uses X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity
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making some impressions! It realistic gaming with surround sound
delivers 100% dot-for-dot over headphones and on the go. You
rendering of full HD content don’t even have to tag along a CD as
and its Advanced Motion the 1GB memory stores the essential
Accelerator creates true-to-life software. An interesting aspect is the
images with reduced visual built-in VoiceFX technology that allows
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office, you can bank on its it... All Your Base Are Belong to Us!
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Friday, October 24, 2008
09
Super car
A British team that already holds the world land speed record has planned
to build a 1,000-miles-an-hour (1,600 kilometres) car in the next three
years. The Bloodhound SSC (supersonic car) will be 13 metres long, six
metres wide and be powered by a jet engine and would be faster than a
bullet, covering the distance of four football fields in a second.
H
olographic storage of- CO, a spinoff of Alcatel and
fers a way to cram Lucent Technology’s Bell
hundreds of movies Labs.
onto a single DVD-size GE is talking to several
disc, but the first commercial electronics companies about
offering, due out next year, is creating playback machines,
a high-end archival system and it wants the technology
that costs tens of thousands to fit well with existing disc-
of dollars and requires spe- manufacturing techniques.
cial playback machines. While the InPhase version
Now researchers at GE sandwiches its special optical
Global Research, in Niskayu- recording media inside an-
na, N.Y., say that they are other type of plastic, the GE
closing in on a mass-market discs are made from a poly-
version that would be com- carbonate that can be proc-
patible with older DVDs and essed with conventional
CDs – technology that GE manufacturing methods. The
says could reach the market material can be melted, in-
in 2012. jected into a mould, and
If the project pans out, cooled to form a disc, the
consumers could hold vast same way that today’s optical
video libraries on a few ho- media are made.
lographic discs alongside the InPhase claims to be un-
regular DVDs in their living concerned about competi-
room. tion from GE, arguing that
GE expects an initial ver- chive their data, GE ultimately on a CD or DVD as a pattern on high-capacity optical storage each company is targeting a
sion of the holographic disc wants to target the broader the disc’s surfaces. Holographic format, Blu-ray, which can be different market segment. “I
to hold 300 gigabytes of data, market. “The average consumer storage involves, instead, en- used to store 50 gigabytes of da- think that’s a great design
and future versions will hold will be able to buy a drive in the coding data using patterns of ta on a single disc. goal for GE,” Rancis says.
as much as one terabyte – next three or four years that light interference within the And yet, although several “But for our particular cus-
enough for 40 high-definition would have this technology, body of light-sensitive material. companies are working on ho- tomer base, none of those
movies or 200 standard-defi- and they can play everything,” This leads to a much higher lographic storage technology, people have material on
nition movies. While the first says Brian Lawrence, manager storage capacity, so holograph- the only imminent commercial DVDs. We are only doing
buyers might be companies of GE’s Integrated Polymer Sys- ic storage has the potential to offering is a high-end system high-end customers.” ■
seeking simpler ways to ar- tems Lab. Information is stored eclipse even today’s leading from InPhase, of Longmont, NYT News Service
Eye candy
쑸
Go with Poorvika
A student of
Japan’s Keio The multi-brand mobile phone store is going strong with 250
University wears a
special see-through employees in 22 outlets across the city and is eager to expand
coat made of
movie-screen-like
material which a
background scene
P oorvika Mobile World boasts
sales of 10 lakh mobile phones
within Chennai alone. And why
promise.”
In fact, Poorvika’s website
(www.poorvika.com) is a testa-
can be “seen” not, when the company is only ment to that, where a customer
through the coat four years old? only has to choose what kind of
when a picture is The multi-brand mobile phone phone he or she wants, for ex-
projected onto it. store offers recharges, servicing, ample, a business phone, and the
Tokyo University’s every brand of MP3 and MP4 comparative rates for each brand
Professor Susumu players, major mobile phone are stated in a grid format.
Tachi developed the brands such as Nokia, HTC, Sam- “We will be launching a re-
optical camouflage sung, LG and many others while vamped version of the existing
technology in also providing prepaid and post module, and this time introduc-
which the scene paid mobile networks such as ing online billing where we
behind the coat is Airtel and Vodafone. promise to give the best price for
captured by a video So what is the difference be- a product.”
camera and then tween Poorvika and other multi- While Poorvika is going strong
projects that scene brand sellers? N. Yuvraj, manag- with 250 employees in 22 outlets
"virtually" onto the ing director of Poorvika says that across the city, they are eager to
special material customer care is their strongest expand. In another three months,
coat. point. “When a customer enters one can expect to see 35 outlets
AFP PHOTO the showroom, we take full care and their aim is to make Poorvika
of them. They just have to tell us a multi-brand mobile phone N. Yuvraj, managing director,
what they want, and we keep the store to reckon with.■ Poorvika
10 ERGO Friday, October 24, 2008
BackPackers
On nature’s trail
GETTING LOST IN SHARAVATI BACKWATERS
RAMESHA JS the trekking route to Kodachadri hills.
Passing through the green paddy
A
few days at the Nisarga Dhama fields, sugar canes we entered a dense
(nature cottage) on the bank of forest, our guide warning us to keep an
the Sharavati River can be the eye for leeches. Armed with a handful
perfect getaway from the busy of salt we continued to trek forward, a
city-life. Cottages, tents, neatly-cut logs sense of adventure filling our mind. But
as dining tables transform you to a slowly our enthusiasm slackened as the
whole new world and you are bound to going got tough. The leeches came
fall in love with the place. from everywhere and the slippery and
A 360-km drive on NH206 from Ban- muddy trail made it difficult to keep
galore takes you to Sagar, before you your footing. But at last we succeeded
have to board another bus for a 22 km and it was worth all the trouble. The
drive to your final destination, Nittur. waterfall cascades down the mountain
The road ends abruptly at Hikkana- slope forming a pool 80 feet below. The
makki and River Sharavathi back water sprinklers hit you hard as if small
welcomes you. (This is the Sharavati stones are being thrown at you.
River backwater which after some 25 After a while it was time to return and
km further crosses the Linganamakki the way back was even more horrible as
Reservoir and creates the world famous we slipped and rolled down. By noon
Jog Falls). The state government runs a we were back at Nisarga Dhama for our
barge service to cross the river and after lunch. Evening came in quickly and it
a 20 minute ride you are back on land was time for us to bid adieu to our gra-
and the journey continues to Nittur. cious hosts and grudgingly trudge back
After hours of tiring journey you at to our very own “concrete jungle”. ■
last reach Nisarga Dhama in early eve- The author is a network engineer with
ning. After a short nap we are back on Wipro Infotech
our feat and after aimlessly wondering
around, soaking in the beauty of the
place, we are at the dinner table, gorg-
ing on the jackfruit bhajji, sambhar and
●Main Highlights
rice. The temperature drops down a Beautiful Bamboo Hut, Trekkers
few notches at nightfall and you are left Tent varying according to your
with no other option but to retreat be- need and number of people
hind the safety of your quilts. ● Activities
After an early breakfast we are ready
Bird Watching, Water Sports,
to hit the road and troop towards the Camp Fire, Cultural programs
Hidlumane Falls. It is on the Kodacha-
dri hills on Hosanagara – Kollur main ●Few places to see
road. Our hosts had arranged for a jeep Kukkana Gudda, Barkana Falls,
for six of us and after ranting through a Dabbe Falls, Hulibai Halla, Jog
few treacherous miles we reach the rest Falls, Hidlumane Falls
house at Hidlumane. From there you
have to walk to the falls which falls on
Friday, October 24, 2008
11
Mystic T
KYLE JARRARD track to gymnastics, but especial- thousand mornings.
ly yoga, a skill he has taught with We take our yoga classes on the
he first sound in the morn- acclaim for decades both in India roof of the new school, under a
ing is crows, right at five. and in France. His official retire- tall, thatched structure with open
Then we hear waves off the ment since 2003 is a fiction of sides.
Bay of Bengal slapping the contentment. Most of the people in the as-
PONDICHERRY
shore. In the garden, a man med- It’s the school he’s building sembly know their hatha-style
itates while walking quickly over that keeps him going, in addition yoga; others stumble a lot – but
the lawn of the ashram gues- to being in top form himself. We, soon everyone gets into the flow,
thouse in the dark. Along the the chosen students, by contrast, despite the great sensual distrac-
shore, other men pace the beach can barely see straight in the sha- tions: banana groves to the north
in the silver jetty light. Fishing dowy dawn as the bus heads off wavering in the gold sunlight; rice
boat lanterns like stars ride the through Pondicherry. For the first paddies to the east where a few
black sea south to north. few blocks the streets have dozen women bend weeding at
My wife and I have come to French names: Rue Dumas, Rue daybreak; thick coconut trees to
Learning yoga at the Pondicherry in southeast India
mostly for the yoga. The classes
Suffren, Rue Romain Rolland.
Then we leave town and head
the west that invite the eye to en-
ter and roam; and to the south,
Portfolio
Narendra Kumar
Shantanu &
Nikhil
Manish Arora
with models
at the end of
the ’Circus’
show
Tarun Tahiliani
for Levi’s Madhu
Sapre in a
Payal Jain,
creation
Falguni
& Shane
Peacock
Friday, October 24, 2008
13
BULLETIN
‘Vest’ed interest
Kangana Ranaut,
Priyanka Chopra
and Madhu Godse S he might have been on several ‘Worst
Dressed Celebrity’ lists, but Britney Spears
seems to have sparked a new fashion trend
for Narendra
Kumar following the release of the latest
‘Womanizer’ video, reported to have
attracted over seven million hits within the
first 48 hours of its release. And basking in
the attention is Syren Latex Couture.
The cropped vest that Britney wears during
her role as a seductive waitress, along with
the Muir cap that she sports while playing a
chauffer, is an instant hit. The album Circus,
of which ‘Womanizer’ is the first single, will
release on December 2, Britney’s 27th
birthday.
Art in a handbag
A mobile art exhibition inspired by the
iconic quilted leather Chanel bag ‘2.55’
created in 1955 by Coco Chanel opens
today in New York’s Central Park.
Fifteen artists have been inspired to
Shatrughan
contribute to the exhibition set up in a
Sinha’s daughter,
glass fibre mobile gallery resembling a
Sonakshi, at the
spaceship and designed by Iraqi-born
Lakme Fashion
British architect Zaha Hadid.
Week
A
fter all the hullabaloo, chaos and Meandering through the pavilion, visitors
controversies, the Spring/ Summer discover installations by artistes from
2009 editions of India’s fashion weeks around the world, even though few share
are done with. We bring to you some much with the signature handbag with its
snapshots – from Narendra Kumar’s gold chain.
bandaged men at Lakme Fashion Week to The inspiration for the exhibition is only obvious in one of the pieces – a
showstoppers from Madhur Bhandarkar’s giant version of the open bag lying on its side. Coco Chanel, who died in
Fashion walking the ramp for Narendra 1971, “worked with artistes like (Jean) Cocteau or (Pablo) Picasso, and this
Verma, to Manish Arora’s ‘Circus’ at the pavilion continues this tradition,” said a spokesman for Chanel and its
Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, it’s artistic director, Karl Lagerfeld.
all here. While Tarun Tahiliani for Shaped like a large white snail, the structure ends with a giant Chanel bag
Levi’s changed the way denims are and a ‘wishtree’ by Yoko Ono, the widow of former Beatle John Lennon,
worn, ‘Shotgun’ Shatrughan where a wish can be written and hung on a branch.
Sinha’s daughter, Sonakshi, Central Park marks the third stop of a two-year global tour for Chanel
made her ramp debut. The Mobile Art that began on February 27 in Hong Kong. It will head to London
ramps, certainly, had and Moscow next year before ending in Paris in 2010. ■
their festivities, too.■ AFP
Ergo Correspondent
Lohan’s leggings
L indsay Lohan sure knows how to create a
scene. More than 300 fans recently packed
Henri Bendel in New York City during the launch
of the 22-year-old actress’s new line of leggings,
6126, and snapped up several hundred pairs of
the leggings in the process.
“This is crazy, I’m so happy so many people
came,” Lohan said, looking out the front
window at another 200 fans gathered on the
Malini sidewalk. “I hope they buy some leggings.” With
Ramani her little sister, Ali, and mom, Dina, in tow,
Lohan’s security guards stood by to keep
onlookers at a distance. Lohan said she hopes
eventually to launch a full sportswear collection, but most likely will start with
“amazing tops to wear with the leggings.” Decked out in a Rick Owens dress,
6126 leggings and Yves Saint Laurent heels, she said Alexander Wang is one of
her favourite young designers. “I wanted to go to his show so bad, but his
publicist said they weren’t allowing any celebrities to attend,” she said. “So I
said, ‘Consider me a normal person then!’ But they wouldn’t.” ■
NYT News Service
14 ERGO Friday, October 24, 2008
Wellness
Regular aerobic exercise can not only
stave off the decline in brain function
that often comes with age, it can also
help turn back the clock on brain aging.
Reuters
T
he most wonderful things in tential will be always used to its
the world have happened fullest. Your physical and mental
when man is relaxed, not potential can be used to this
when man is driving himself highest possibility, if you know
to madness. The most wonderful how to be intense and relaxed at
scientific discoveries also hap- the same time. But this tension
pened when man is relaxed. and laxity will not get us
Somebody like Isaac Newton anywhere.
worked for 18 years in the lab- Relaxation for certain people
oratory without producing any- especially means going and
thing. One day, fed up with work, sleeping. They don’t see that they
he goes and sits under a tree; an can go to the garden, have a walk
apple falls, there you have the and relax themselves; they don’t
laws of gravity. see they can have a swim and re-
Somebody fed up with work lax themselves.
wants to have a bath, goes and It need not be so, you can relax
gets into his bath tub and the wa- in your study; you can relax in
ter over flows; there you have the your work; you can relax in your
laws of floatation. Somebody walk . . . In everything that you
once again fed up with work do, you can relax. If you have love
wants to have a cup of coffee, the in your heart, life is relaxation. If
coffee kettle is boiling, there, you you love what you’re doing, it’s
have the locomotives. The most relaxation. Yoga is to be in that
wonderful things have happened state where you are Intense and
when man is relaxed. Please see, relaxed at the same time and that
in moments of relaxation, you are is when you are at your peak
most intelligent. performance.■
Why we are talking about ef-
fortless living is just this – to bring If you can maintain
relaxation to every activity that
you perform. Right now if I ask
your intensity and
people to relax they will become relaxation together,
lax. You know the difference? Or all your potential
if I ask people to be intense they
become tense. You have to learn will be always
to be intense and relaxed. If you used to its fullest.
can maintain your intensity and
Mobile phones can fry up men’s fertility Speedy eaters likelier to get fat
P eople who eat
quickly until full
are three times more
likely to be
overweight, a
problem exacerbated
by the availability of
fast food and the
decline of orderly
dining habits,
Japanese researchers
said on Wednesday.
M en should stay miles away from mobile phones if they don’t want to screw up
their plans of fathering a child, for a new research has shown that males who
talk for hours on cellphones may damage their sperm. An experiment on semen
The findings,
published in the
British Medical
revealed evidence of DNA damage after 16 hours of exposure to radiation similar Journal, highlight
to the output of a mobile phone. To reach the conclusion, researchers at the how eating styles, and
University of Newcastle built a device to irradiate sperm at the same radio fre- not just what or how
quency as mobile telephone calls. Professor John Aitken, director of the uni- much is eaten, can
versity’s Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology and Development, said they were contribute to an
able to accurately identify high levels of DNA fragmentation in the sperm. . DNA obesity epidemic
damage in spermatozoa has been associated with decreased fertility, increased fueled by the spread
risk of miscarriage and various kinds of disease in offspring, including childhood of Western-style
cancer, and a number of neurological disorders such as autism, bipolar disorder affluence in many
and spontaneous schizophrenia. parts of the world.
ANI Reuters
Friday, October 24, 2008
15
Boy or girl Western diet may cause heart attack
Overweight women are more likely to have
baby girls after IVF treatment, according to The typical Western diet, which includes red meat, fried
a new research. The study also found that foods, dairy products and salty snacks, is responsible for 30
mums with normal weight are more likely to per cent of the world’s heart attacks.
have boys after the treatment.
W
ant to shed those extra other liquid-facelifts like soy milk small handful every afternoon.
pounds and look 10 years that is helpful in speeding up the Olive oil
younger? Well, guess what, production of collagen - the build- Scientists found that people living
your desire has just been ing bricks of skin. in hot countries with fewer wrinkles
fulfilled, all thanks to a British nutri- all had high intakes of olive oil.
tionist and his ultimate diet.
Brainchild of nutritionist Carina
Get a fruity facelift Swap vegetable oil for olive oil, or
drizzle it cold on salads
Norris, the ultimate anti-ageing diet Gorge on fruits if you want to look Adzuki beans
will not only help you shift 10lbs but younger. The best anti-ageing fruit These are a great source of zinc, a
will also take10 years off your face is kiwi fruit - one of the richest mineral that helps your skin repair
without using any of those anti-age- sources of vitamin C, which is fan- itself. Studies show zinc can also
ing lotions. “Food is a great way to tastic for skin because it helps build help with acne. Buy them canned
ward off wrinkles and boost energy collagen and mops up ageing tox- from the supermarket and add
levels. If you choose wisely, your ins. them to salads and stir-fries.
weekly shopping cart will be full of Also recommended are Avocados, Apricots
effective anti-ageing components, as they are jam-packed with vita- They’re full of lutein, an antioxi-
that help you boost your health and mins A and E, which are very effec- dant that helps fight off the ageing
keep you slim,” The Mirror quoted tive at fighting wrinkles. One can effects of the sun. Snack on them
Norris as saying. even add a portion of berries every between meals, or slice them fresh
The anti-ageing diet suggests: day, as they’re full of antioxidants on your porridge.
called phytochemicals. Lastly, try Spinach
Tuck into oily fish some prunes and raisins. Like apricots, spinach is also a
fantastic source of lutein, which
New York skin doctor Dr Nicholas
Perricone, the diet guru of Holly-
Skin-loving carbs wards off sun damage and ageing
sunspots. Add a handful to a stir-fry
wood stars including Kim Cattrall Get your daily dose of Carbohy- or use in place of lettuce in salads.
and Heidi Klum, encourages his pa- drates for getting that younger look- Tomatoes
tients to eat plenty of oily fish be- ing skin. Porridge oats are a great Their magic ingredient is lyco-
cause the essential fats found in way to start the day and look youn- pene, a powerful antioxidant. As
them provide skin-loving antioxi- ger. well as reducing the risk of certain
dants and mop up the free radicals Oats contain high levels of a min- cancers, lycopene also protects the
that can cause wrinkles and prema- eral called silicic acid that plumps skin against sun damage and keeps
turely aged skin. up the cells in skin, creating a it looking younger. Slice them up in
The best sources of this essential youthful bounce. It also slows down your food or add them to salads.
fatty acid include salmon, mackerel, the appearance of fine lines and Broccoli
fresh tuna steaks and sardines. The wrinkles. Multigrain bread, full of It’s great for fighting free radicals
high protein content of oily fish also selenium, instead of white bread in the body. Free radicals are harm-
helps keep skin firm - and has the may act as a saviour preserving the ful substances found in the environ-
added bonus of keeping you slim. elasticity in your skin. ment, such as pollution, which age
us. Anything that mops up free rad-
Drink up Age-busting icals, like broccoli, is great at keep-
ing skin young.
Water has been named as the big-
gest anti-ageing component. Essen-
superfoods Chop them up and add to stir
fries and curries.
tial for good health and good looks, Almonds Red wine
water plumps up the skin and flush- They’re packed full of omega-3 It boosts circulation to the skin,
es out the toxins that cause a dull fats and protein, which help skin re- plus it’s full of antioxidants. Enjoy a
complexion and wrinkles. And diet- pair itself. Plus they’re a great small glass of red wine a few nights
icians claim room temperature wa- source of vitamin E, which studies a week.
ter is best, but there are plenty of show can prevent wrinkles. Have a ANI
16 ERGO Friday, October 24, 2008
Sport
Australian venue named after Rafter
Brisbane’s new 82 million Australian dollar tennis centre has been named after two-time
US Open champion Pat Rafter. The 5,500-seat Rafter Arena, officially named on Thursday,
will open in January, hosting the Brisbane International men’s and women’s hard-court
championships on January 4 in the lead up to the Australian Open in Melbourne.
n g w o r d s f r o m
r t i
finding Alfio Basile’s successor
threw his weight behind the
World Cup winning skipper. “I’d
Com f o
e
like Maradona to be the next
r n
coach,” Noray Nakis, the president
a
of the Argentina Football
W
Association (AFA) selection
commission said on Wednesday.
Basile resigned last week after a World Cup qualifying
defeat to Chile. Maradona faces competition for the
job from Carlos Bianchi, the former coach of Boca
Juniors, whom he led to four national league titles,
San Lorenzo coach Miguel Angel Russo and Sergio
ANIC
Batista who took the under-23 squad to Olympic gold
in Beijing in August. Despite his national popularity,
N O T T O P
Maradona admitted on Tuesday that his chances of
N D T E L L S TEAM
taking over from Basile were slim “because Bianchi is
E
in the lead of all the surveys”.
AFP AUSSIE LEG
Easy win for
Bopanna-Mirnyi
L
egendary Australian spinner Shane Warne has challenged the
beleaguered Ricky Ponting-led team to standup and show
The combination of Rohan Bopanna and his new that they were made of champions’ stuff by tactically fighting
partner Max Mirnyi proved lethal as they accounted out the blues against India.
for the third seeded Mikhail Youzhny and Mischa “When the chips are down and you are challenged as a group
Zverev in the opening round of the USD 1,049,000 St and as individuals, the great players and the champions stand up.
Petersburg Open. Indian Davis Cupper Bopanna and This is how you separate and define the good teams and individu-
Belarusian Mirnyi took exactly one hour to script the als from the great,” Warne said. “Mohali’s gone, deal with it. Say
ouster of Russian-German pair 6-3, 6-4 to move to the well played and carry yourself well, hold your head high.
quarterfinals of the hard court event. The un-seeded But deep down use it as motivation and keep that
Indo-Belarusian pair dropped their serve twice in the hunger that’s inside alive,” he was quoted as say-
first set but compensated by breaking their rivals as ing by the Daily Telegraph. Warne, however,
many times to take lead. They then denied their agreed it was difficult to beat India in
rivals the one and only conversion chance in the India “even with the best of
second set and broke their rivals on the first teams” besides the atmo-
opportunity in hand to move to the next level. They sphere was suffocating
will fight it out with Russian pair of Igor Kunitsyn with fans and media
and Marat Safin for a place in the semi-finals. crowding from every
PTI quarter.
“This is where expe-
rience and calm heads
Paes-Dlouhy sneak into rise to the top, and
Ponting and (Michael)
quarterfinal Clarke as leaders will become
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy survived a scare crucial, sitting around over a glass
before beating Jurgen Melzer and Todd Perry in the and chewing the fat with the team and
first round of the Euro 891,000 Swiss Indoor ATP coming up with some new plans. Talking
tournament. The third seeded Indo-Czech pair tactics as a group is important,” he said.
shrugged off the initial hiccups to beat the un-seeded “Be the man to drag the team along
Autrian-Australian pair 2-6, 6-3, 10-6 in one hour and and in the right direction, be prepared for
nine minutes to advance to the quarterfinals of the whatever the opposition throws at you,
hard court event. The winners saved one breakpoint fight and never give up, don’t be afraid and
in the first set but dropped their serve start thinking negatives and what ifs,” he
twice to hand the first set to their added. Warne, who proved his captaincy
rivals. They had enough chances to skills in the inaugural IPL season by leading a
draw parity in the second set but could bunch of dark horses to the title victory, said
convert just one of the five breakpoints. there was no need to write off any youngsters.
However that was enough to claw their “No need to sharpen the guillotine or write off any
way back into the match. The players just yet. Sure, India have had the wood
experienced duo then had no trouble in on Australia in their last four Tests in Perth,
winning the decisive super tie-breaker Adelaide, Bangalore and now Mohali. The
to seal the issue in their favour. They next face scoreline reads: India 2 wins, Australia
German pair of Christopher Kas and Philipp 0, draws 2. Not great, but no need to
Kohlschreiber in the next round. The second-seeded panic,” he said. ■
pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Bahamian Mark PTI
Knowles will open their campaign against Spanish
pair of Feliciano Lopezand Marcel Granollers.
PTI
PHOTO: K. PICHUMANI
Friday, October 24, 2008
17
‘‘
It’s (Brazilian GP) the last one, and I’m looking forward to the end of the
season, as it’s been a long year. Interlagos is a good circuit, I really like it.
Hopefully, we’ll have a better end to the season than last year, when I had a
problem and had to retire. I really want to finish the race without any problems.
Force India driver Adrian Sutil PHOTO: AFP
Basel’s Ivan Ergic (right) vies for the ball with Barcelona’s Lionel Messi,
during their Group C Champions League football match at St. Jakob-
Park Stadiu in Basel . PHOTO: AFP
Great start
Teen sensation Bojan Krkic scored twice
as Barcelona cruised past Basel to keep
their 100-percent record. Goals from star
Argentinian striker Lionel Messi, Sergi Bus-
quets, two from Krkic and a fifth from Xavi
Hernandez brought Barcelona up to an im-
pressive 10 goals from their three victories.
Italian champions Inter Milan were made
to battle all the way by a spirited Anorthosis
Famagusta at the San Siro.
Adriano scored the winner late on in
the first half to put Inter in control of
the group with seven points from
three games. Adriano had suffered
from depression and a loss of form
last season and was eventually
loaned out to Sao Paulo but he has
come back to form this season,
looking leaner and more focused. ■
AFP
18 ERGO Friday, October 24, 2008
Big B unplugged
Flick
Catch all about the Shahensha-Badshah
of Bollywood this Diwali; October 27-28
at 8.30 p.m. on Zoom. Amitabh
Bachchan talks about his rise, decline
and rise on ‘Bollywood Case Files’.
Now showing
Barking dogs
never bite We are a family Bold and
Film: Roadside Romeo Film: Heroes
Director: Jugal Hansraj Director: Samir Karnik beautiful
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Ka- Cast: Salman Khan, Sunny Film: Seval
poor, Jaaved Jaaferi Deol, Bobby Deol, Preity Zin- Director: Hari
Genre: Animation ta, Sohail Khan, Amrita Aro- Cast: Bharath, Poonam, Simran Thirakkatha
So, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Ka- ra, Dino Morea, Riya Sen Realistic, bold, yet violent films
poor are made for each other. Af- Genre: Patriotic have become the latest fad in (Malayalam)
ter Tashan, which failed at the Too many cooks spoil the Tamil cinema, especially after If you have been longing to
box-office, the pair is back, though broth. Hope this proverb the success of Paruthiveeran catch a Malayalam film, Ran-
you won’t see them. Saif gives voi- does not holds true for He- and Subramaniapuram. From jith’s Thirakkatha is among the
ceover for a dog (Romeo). But roes, as the film is an attempt the trailers it looks like Seval is better of the films playing in
there is lot more to expect of the to bring out the new-age another film in the same theatres. The Prithviraj and Pri-
film. Jugal Hansraj (the child artiste definition of patriotism. genre. Watch out for G.V. Pra- yamani-starrer is a romantic
who later came to fame with Mo- The film revolves around two kash’s music and Simran’s co- film, which has celebrity mar-
habbatein) makes his debut as di- men who travel a thousand meback (as heroine?). riage, divorce and other mys-
rector. Also, it is the first animated miles on a journey that re- teries.
film that is an Indo-US co-produc- veals to them a new meaning
tion of Yash Raj Films and Walt Dis- of life. Hope this proves lucky
ney Pictures. for Salman, this time at least.
This is the story of Romeo, a dude
who was living the life. Until one
day, when the family he was the
favourite pet of decides to move
and leave him behind – abandoned
on the mean streets of Mumbai.
Comeback pair
Film: Aegan Body of Lies
Director: Raju Sundaram
Cast: Ajith, Nayantara, Suhasini Mani Ratnam, Nasser (English)
Less than a year after Ajith and Nayantara sizzled in the This American thriller is
song ‘My Name is Billa’ from Billa, the pair will hope based on Washington Post co-
luck once again smiles upon them. And with Raju Sun- lumnist David Ignatius’s 2007
daram making his debut as director, we sure can expect novel about a CIA operative
some great choreography at least. We also hear that who uncovers a lead on a ma-
Aegan is a remake of Main Hoon Na. jor terrorist leader suspected
to be operating out of Jordan.
With Leonardo DiCaprio and
Russell Crowe the film is worth
a watch, we hear.
Friday, October 24, 2008
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To refuse awards is another
way of accepting them with
more noise than is normal.
Peter Ustinov
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