The Indian Express -- Leisure

Monday, November 17 1997

TODAY'S CROSSWORD TODAY'S ZODIAC

Indian mehndi has colourful designs on trendy Hollywood stars

Hollywood hipsters are embracing mehndi, used by millions of Indian brides every year to decorate their hands and feet. Celebrities including actress Mira Sorvino, Demi Moore and No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani have made mehndi trendy in a continent thousands of kilometres away from India.

Record price for Begum's Bath

Mingled with CK2, Opium and Eternity was the smell of something really BIG; and on Saturday night at Nehru Centre it took a relatively obscure art lover, Parmanand Patel, five minutes to change the pricing of Indian art. He snapped up Raja Ravi Verma's oil-on-canvas,The Begum's Bath for Rs 32 lakh at an auction of Modern and Contemporary Indian Art.

Francophone meet, a strategy to checkmate English

With the close of the Francophone summit in Hanoi on Sunday after three days of fanfare, other countries still question the relevance of "La Francophonie" for the rest of the world.

Indian mehndi has colourful designs on trendy Hollywood stars

Francophone meet, a strategy to checkmate English

Record price for Begum's Bath

The Othello of the backwaters

World Vignettes -- All-animal aliances