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Six months on the road
Having covered over 25 destinations for Road Less Travelled, the METROPLUS team shares its experiences... some funny, some scary and some plain wacky
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Responses to this column have been overwhelming, as always. Hence, letters on the same topic will be published next week also.


Fitness

Rest is best
STRESS FRACTURES are common in joggers, runners, military recruits, gymnasts, jumpers and dancers. They occur most commonly in the metatarsals — the shaft-like bones of the foot, and in the tibia and the fibula — the leg bones. ...
Down Memory Lane

REMEMBERING F.J
In all my years as a student I never saw FJ in any other attire except his shiny cream coloured suits, recalls J. Vasanthan
Health

Full of sugar
Fresh cane juice is not only a popular summer drink but also a folk remedy for rheumatoid arthritis, boils, laryngitis and sore throat
Lifestyle

An EVENING out
If you are part of an audience, there are certain rules to follow that will make an event enjoyable for all
Arts & Crafts

Shades of the past
The frescos at the Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple are a treasure collection, second to none, displaying the brilliance of the painters of the past, says T. SARAVANAN
Cinema

An officer and a gentleman
AFTER HIS debut film "Dil Chahta Hai" released three years back, Farhan Akhtar, who had rede- fined Hindi commercial cinema, is back with "Lakshya", releasing this Friday. "Lakshya" happens to be the most eagerly awaited Bollywood film of the ...
Class act
A LITTLE known offbeat film "Raghu Romeo" has been making waves at various film festivals such as Locarno and Toronto. Finally, NFDC is releasing the film nationwide this week. Director Rajat Kapoor who found a niche audience at the festivals was ...
Special effects extravaganza
THE "MUMMY" director Steven Sommers is back this summer with "Van Helsing" another special effects big budget extravaganza set in the medieval ages. Sommers has created a new hero Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) who is projected as a monster hunter. ...
Back in action!
VIJAYKANTH has been soldiering on for the last two decades and is still managing to stay on top. After doing family entertainers, the actor is back to donning larger-than-life roles that his fans like. Last week, he completed "Gajendra," an ...
Music

She hits a new high
"Perhaps, I am one of the few to have experienced a meteoric rise with a single song," says Malathy Lakshman, the singer of `Manmatha Rasa ... '
Land & People

For a woman aspiring to glow in life
Sudar continues to touch as many lives as it can, bridging small gaps in ways that make a big difference, writes PAVITHRA KRISHNAN
Events

Felicitated
A FINAL year B.E. Computer Science student of Sethu Institute of Technology, Kariappatti, and a student of Tandem Institute of Computer Technology, Madurai, J. Sridhar, has claimed 10 international certifications in various examinations on ...
Entertainment

Well-timed!
AN UNREHEARSED show on camera can unnerve even the most confident and capable among us — especially if the format is a phone-in conversation with strangers. There are many young and beautiful girls trying it out on the various satellite ...

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