The Indian Express -- Leisure

Saturday, June 7 1997

TODAY'S CROSSWORD TODAY'S ZODIAC

Britain beyond Buckingham Palace

London may swing, but Britain is also a dump filled with grim and ugly buildings and unwashed, hobby-obsessed people. This is the verdict of a new travel guide published this week.

Hollywood invades Tibet

Long ago, in a land far, far away, a gentle people who believed in the spiritual force that joins us with everything else in the universe was overrun by an evil empire that believed in nothing beyond the material and tried to crush all dissent.

The Konkan is kokum

The waves of the Arabian Sea lash western beaches of the Konkan and create inlets and creeks that are sites of many ports of Maharashtra. The narrow silvery ribbon-like coastal land strip called the Konkan gets heavy rainfall during the monsoons.

Russia's newest Rasputin

Let's get physical