Do the Shimla beat
With the plains simmering under the full wrath of summer, the annual temporary exodus in search of cool respite is well under way.

A rose called Abhimanyu
As a mother, I'll admit I'm a bit of an oddball. I am distinctly unmaternal in my responses to the son. I can thump him on his back and race him to the fridge for that last bit of chocolate.

Green is healthy
I have just finished reading Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain (Thistledown Press) by Jeffrey Moore, which got the Commonwealth Best First Book Award and which I had discussed briefly earlier.


  Get heady on wine in Tokyo
  Keep fit
  New chemotherapy with fewer side-effects
  Imagination takes her to the Olympics
  Skin remedies for the 21st century male
  First cancer detecting PET system at Tata Memorial Hospital