May 22, 2003

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Picture perfect Beauty, they say, is skin deep. But in a world that has become increasingly conscious of appearance, skin is now of paramount importance. More and more people are beginning to spend, time, energy and money on maintaining...		Shhh...there’s an ambitious woman in the room My first encounter with the word ambition took place a year ago when I was invited to a dull and dreary dinner party (the type your parents had when you were a kid which you swore you would never attend once you grew up). I’d just joined TR and a man asked me....
A cruel sport They used to tie us with a cord to a camel’s back, and make them run over a track covered in sand and boarded with large pointed iron posts and barbed wire,” reported eight-year-old Sher Ali, a camel jockey trafficked from Pakistan....		Talking about it When a person first finds out that he or she has cancer, however positive the diagnosis might be, the person can experience very strong feelings of shock and disbelief. There are many aspects to this feeling of shock — the common...
Daring the darkness, braving the silence Every morning, he wakes up to the sound of birds chirping on the tree outside his window, but he has never seen a sparrow take off from it’s perch, or a butterfly flutter it’s coloured wings. Are roses really red and pretty pink, even...		Mind the gap When our second son was born, my wife and I received a mixed bag of congratulations. While friends and family were delighted for us, fully aware how long it had taken us to conceive, there were a few who pitied the boys’ five-year age gap....
‘Rightfully’ wrong The Hindu Right wing in pre-Partition India came up with the two-nation theory, not Jinnah,” said Manisha Gupte, a leading Indian activist at a talk in Chicago, focusing on the threat to civil liberties in India. Along with her husband and...		How to cook nothing Any decent recipe will tell you things like the ingredients you will require, the temperature the oven should be set to, and the preparation and cooking time required for the dish. But the one thing they never tell you in cookbooks is the amount of recovery time you’ll need after you’ve finished your grand oeuvre....
Aching back Q :I have been told I need surgery for something I have never heard of — spinal stenosis. I have low back pain, but I am able to get...		Eight days A week The trouble with Leela, a decently made and acted minglish production, is that too much of it is a little too derivative. Tell me if any of this sounds familiar — the South Asian immigrant experience in the West; the...
Post Mark: Scared to scream THE article Scared to scream (TR May 8) was really horrifying. The various rape incidents mentioned in the report are saddening, but the saddest part is that 70 per cent of...		Cheesy treat Tomatoes stuffed with cheese and mushrooms Ingredients: 4 large tomatoes 125g cheddar cheese...