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The Hindu :
This is a son’s tribute to an extraordinary father. Titled “Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa”, it is a biography of this illustrious army chief written by his son Air Marshal K.C. Cariappa (Retd) and published by Niyogi Books.

A forthright account

Setbacks

The Hindu :

Campus Rock Idols, the inter-collegiate rock music competition is back with its fourth edition.

The competition this time is being sponsored by Hero Honda and Motorola in association with Reliance, Levis and VH1. Starting October 27 it will be held across 10 cities in India over a period of two months. The finals are at Delhi on December 2.

The events will be here and at Jaipur, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Shillong, Manipal, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Pune and Delhi. The idea is to promote deserving bands and offer them international exposure. The winning band gets a cash prize of Rs. 75,000, the first runner up Rs. 50,000 and second runner up Rs. 25,000. This year’s winners will also get a once-in-a-lifetime debut opportunity to perform alongside an international rock artist who is promoted by DNA Networks.

Entry forms are being distributed at various campuses. You can also log on to www.campusrockidols.in or www.dnanetworks.com to register. The jury comprises senior representatives from the music industry. All participating members must be bona fide college students. They are required to attach a copy of their ID cards with the entry forms. Members of the bands must be less than 25 yrs of age on October 25, 2007. A minimum of three and a maximum of 10 members can make a band.

Regional selection for Bangalore will begin on November 1, 2007. The top two winning bands will go to the South Zone…More

The Hindu :
Bartenders Kiko and Pedro Gurreiro are two of the best at what they do, veterans of the art of mixology, flair bartending and everything else that goes into making the perfect drinking experience. The duo were in Bangalore as part of a four-day event
organised by the Red Bull Bartender Academy to share with the city’s bartenders the secrets of a great career behind the bar. As the duo chatted on the ins and outs of the bartending profession, RAKESH MEHAR took frantic notes.

Pedro: This is the first time that I’ve been to India. It’s a very nice country with a very different culture.

Kiko: With this trip I have been to 40 countries around the world. And I’ve realised that you can’t say whether some country is better or worse than another. They’re just different. You just have to accept some things that you can’t fight. But yes, India has a lot of good places and good people.

(On bartending and flair)
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The Hindu :

The Hindu :

Spiritus 2007, a sports fest exclusively for law colleges, begins on October 26 and goes on till 28. The event is organised by the Sports Committee of the National Law School in association with the Sports Authority of India.

Spiritus started off as an event restricted to our city colleges, but now it is a national sports event with over 25 colleges and 700 participants from all over the country being a part of it, say the organisers.

Spiritus this year is a three-day event with competitions in football, lawn tennis, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, squash, throw ball, badminton, chess and carom. Beside this there will also be athletes competing on the race tracks.

The fest also promises a great degree of fun and light-hearted entertainment with activities like informal tug-of-war, lemon ’n’ spoon, grape catching and so on. For details e-mail sportscom@nls.ac.in.

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Kara is organising its Konnect Klub, in association with Dr. Ali Khwaja, a counsellor of the Banjara Academy, on Friday, October 26.

The aim of this interactive event is to help parents connect with children and help them cope with childhood stress, say the organisers.

The venue is the Kara Kindergarten, HIG Dollars Colony, RMV II Stage between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. The session is open for everyone.

Those interested may contact 23518008 or 98443-21212.

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The Hindu :

The Hindu : ven’t made a weekend trip to the Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary near Srirangapatna. Most will enjoy the sight of the crocodiles basking in the sun and the few visible birds. Nothing more is possible in the sh
ort boat ride. But now you can explore the beauty of the sanctuary and learn more about its unique inhabitants right in your living room.

R.G. Srikantha is an Assistant Superintendent at India Post in Mysore. But his passion since childhood has been photographing birds and wildlife. He along with his brother R.G. Jayarama, an accountant, have filmed a short documentary called “Ranganathittu – An Avian Haven” for the Forest Department.

Srikantha says he has grown up with the Cauvery very much a part of his everyday life. He decided to shoot the film because there were some moods that were impossible to express in still photographs. Ranganathittu has been a haunt of his since childhood.

The sanctuary is special because it is one the tiniest in the country, measuring just 0.67 square kilometres. It comprises six islets in a meandering portion of the Cauvery river. It is a favourite for migratory birds, and during the peak season is home to almost 24,000. To set apart time for the film, Srikantha shifted his work to the night shift and spent the entire day shooting. He…More

The Hindu :

The Hindu :
No individual can be judged in isolation of the forces of his times: social, political and economical. Hence, he is largely a product of a period, of history. If on the one hand, the individual is shaped by his reactions and resistances to the world
around him, his story is also his response to the pressures of survival within a system. “Bahumukhi”, Vivek Shanbhag’s play, staged as part of the Ranga Shankara festival by amateur theatre group Sanchaya and directed by S. Surendranath, deals with these preoccupations.

The play, pitting the individual in the backdrop of a wide, powerful canvas – strangleholds of institution, authority, power – raises itself to a universality, while it gains its rootedness by locating the individual in a phenomenon that’s true of our times – a hyperactive media that menacingly invades private spaces and parades human emotions in the marketplace, the nouveau rich and their fashionable engagement with market-savvy spiritual gurus, failed relationships, and the disappearing fences between truth and untruth.

It all begins with a journalist (Sanjay) driven to produce a “head turning” story by his rather honest editor (Anand Birajdar), answerable to a management that cares only about selling figures. The editor, who intends no malice, is nothing more than a loyal mason, able to make very few claims about his professional life. In Sanjay’s desperate search for a breaking story, he stumbles upon a story, a story within a story, finally blurring judgments between history and myth, the real and the imagined. So much so, it suggests that in a complete collapse of ideological superstructures, the only recourse is to live in the world of the “story”, and sadly, even that is short lived (as in the case of Kempe Gowda). What is sadder is that it is unsympathetically perpetrated by Jakkuji, who himself is living out a story. But as Jakkuji himself observes, we live in a world…More

The Hindu :

Here is a chance for you to make the festival season even more sweet. Jus’ Trufs, the chocolate store, has created a special range for this year’s gifting season. You can choose from Belgian chocolates, liqueur chocolates, signature choco
lates and dry fruits to form special gift packs, hampers, trays, glass plates and baskets. Customised orders need to be placed early and options are available to match any budget. Orders can be placed at info@justrufs.com or by calling Mrs. Chenddyna Schae at 9844016984 or 23624324 or 32909246. The entire range is on display at www.justrufs.com

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