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Verse Moves
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Heri (centre)
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How many times have
we been told 'You did it despite being a woman'?" asked journalist-writer-poet
Prathibha Nandakumar at Aha Purushakaram, a poetry and dance collaboration
in Chennai's Museum Theatre. Held under the aegis of the Prakriti Foundation,
the evening eulogised the body's limitless nuances as Nandakumar read
aloud excerpts from Aha Purushakaram, her most recent book of 50 poems
named after Patanjali's Yoga Sutra which describes the human form. Like
the book, the evening's three compositions, The Body, Duality and Emergence
of New Woman, "celebrated womanhood" as Bangalore-based contemporary
dancer and choreographer Madhu Natraj Heri and her troupe complemented
Nandakumar's on-stage renditions with supple head to toe movements. Summed
up Nandakumar: "Contemporary poetry and dance can give expression
to the contemporary woman. I realised Madhu was doing in dance what I
was doing in poetry."
-Kavitha
Muralidharan
Metro Minutes
 Acting
school or modelling school? Mumbai's GlamourIndia Institute calls
itself a one-stop shop, promising to launch careers in acting, modelling,
deejaying, even fitness. Faculty members include choreographer Sangeeta
Chopra, fitness expert Brian Sopher, deejay Akbar Sami and hotshot photographer
Daboo Ratnani. Course fees are anywhere from Rs 1,000 for a basic fitness
course to Rs 75,000 for a two-month specialised course in hairstyling
and make-up. The first batch of aspirants can even avail a chance to star
in Ken Ghosh's film Ishq Vishq, Pyar Vyaar.
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Borliouk in Delhi
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Russian model Nelli Borliouk was in Delhi
to promote the QCGirl International Model Hunt to be held for the first
time in India at Jaipur in October. A QCGirl herself in 1994, Borliouk,
26, is also a mother and busy lawyer. During her stay in the capital,
she did the rounds of pubs and beauty salons talking to youngsters about
the contest. Those smouldering green eyes would have had many takers.
Space Sojourns
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| SCIENCE CLASS: Inside the Science City's
space theatre |
A 23-metre diameter screen, earsplitting 3,000-watt
Dolby sound and a Hollywood actor as instructor. For visitors at the preview
of Cosmic Voyage, a 35-minute Smithsonian Institution film on the evolution
of the universe, at the Space Theatre in Kolkata's "space theme park"
Science City (SC), it was an experience hard to forget. Computer-generated
protons, helices and asteroids hurtled at them from the mammoth imax screen-technically,
India's first such screen installed five years ago. Even SC director T.K.
Ganguly, who picked Cosmic Voyage from several options, wasn't ready for
the effects the new Astrovision 70 camera threw up: "This is unbeatable."
Students and teachers in the audience -who are likely to make up a bulk
of the planned 30 shows-a-week-couldn't agree more. "This is better
than the Encarta," enthused Sounak Acharya and Shantanu Saha, two
tech-savvy students of Birla High School. For those who have difficulty
latching onto actor-narrator Morgan Freeman's midwestern drawl, a short
summary in Hindi and Bengali will precede every show. The film will cost
SC $100,000 (Rs 46 lakh) a year. Guess when you've got it, flaunt it.
-Labonita
Ghosh
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