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 Mime
artists from across India gathered at Delhi's LTG auditorium and Triveni
Kala Sangam for the National Mime Festival in a valorous bid to ensure
the art form's longevity. Says Moinul Haque from Mime Academy, Guwahati:
"I am trying out innovations and teaching mime to the hearing impaired."
There's no choice now: action has to speak louder than words.
What do cricketers do when they are spurned
by national selectors and are too young to retire? Play other games ...
or better still inaugurate championships. Out-of-work batsman Vinod Kambli
cut the ribbon of the opening round of the ColorPlus National Bowling
Championships held in Mumbai last week. The event is being held in 16
cities over the next two months and the winner represent India at the
AMF World Cup in Thailand in November. Prize money for the men's section
is a cool Rs 1,00,000. Kambli might want to seriously take up bowling.
 #What
should the "Carbon" woman be like? It was hard to tell from
the three women Carbon, the lifestyle and fashion accessories company,
picked during its launch in Kolkata recently. Designer Kiran Uttam Ghosh,
industrialist Harsh Neotia's wife Madhu and actress Konkona Sen Sharma
seemed to have nothing in common. Except that all three are young achievers.
But not everyone seemed happy with the choice. "Maybe Carbon should
have picked a model as well, someone with a long neck who'd look good
with the pendant," a lensman cruelly rued. He should clean his lens.
#He didn't have to compete with the live mannequins.
Graviera Mr India and brand ambassador for the evening Aryan Vaid looked
relieved as he casually hung around rather than walked the ramp at Cambridge
Apparel's 40th anniversary bash. The party held last week at the Liquid
Lounge also celebrated the launch of a new range of shirts and ties "Coordinates"
in steel blue, orange, lilacs and beige. The show stopper, though, was
Gladrags Look of the Year, Koyna, in sheer black and silver. Yes, we saw
the mannequins move.
 AIRING
THEIR FEELINGS: India's first direct-to-home digital (DTH) satellite
audio receiver, Celeste was launched in Bangalore by Washington-based
WorldSpace Corporation in in a tie-up with electronics major BPL. "It's
a strategic alliance that will help us bring the radio of tomorrow to
the listeners of today in India, the Asian region and the world,"
said WorldSpace founder-chairman Noah Samara, born in Ethiopia, raised
in Tanzania and educated at California and now based in Washington DC.
The company plans to increase its bouquet of channels to 35 from the existing
25 by March 2002 and also assist BPL in marketing the Rs 7,000 receiver.
Could revive the India's waning interest in radio, at least till DTH TV
flashes in.
—Stephen David
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