May 1, 2003

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The future of fashion When Susie (name changed), a 30-year-old American married to a Pakistani, moved to Pakistan six years ago, she found it very difficult to find a trendy, comfortable shalwar kameez. Most of what the tailors were making were badly stitched....		Against their will Five years ago 19-year-old Rukhsana Naz was strangled to death by her brother while her mother held her down by her feet. This happened in Britain, the country Naz’s parents had migrated to from Pakistan and where she had been born and bred....
Mantras of success Why did you not tell me that he is your relative? I would have looked after his need and given him the concession (admission, license, appointment etc.). You did not have to take the trouble to come all this way to see this khidmatgar.” The official is swooning over...		Colourful therapy What’s life without colour? What does colour mean to you? Isn’t colour life in itself? Colour is how you live your life. It’s your mood and its quality; it’s variety and feeling. Without sensation and intensity, how could we live life fully? For colour has power, and science...
An evening with the brains He epitomized everything they were there to celebrate. Short, somewhat skinny, with a complexion and hair any eastern girl would feel proud of. He wasn’t exactly the ebony clad roue from that Calvin Klein billboard, but he walked on to the stage, somehow...		Can you give it up ? Operation Iraqi Freedom has by no means concluded with the fall of Baghdad. If anything, it has just begun. The allied forces may have successfully managed to ‘liberate’ the Iraqis from Saddam Hussein’s regime, but what has this...
Yeast infections need medical attention Q :I have had a vaginal infection and discharge for three months. I have tried many remedies for a yeast infection, but none works. What does? Would a change of diet...		This’ll hurt me more than you A fortnight ago, for the first time in my lengthy-ish career as girlfriend to assorted people, I ended a relationship. Until that moment, I had an unbroken record as either a graceless, bitter, ranting dumpee, or a major contributing factor to a blameless...
Eight days A week I know it isn’t really fashionable to say it anymore but I love Charles Dickens. Sure, his characters are usually either black or white with hardly any shades of gray but what characters they are! Sure, coincidences abound in densely plotted...		Snack munchies Almond and orange jelly Ingredients: 1 tbsp gelatin 300 ml water 300 ml milk 3 tbsp sugar...