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Politics Business Expressions General Sports Leisure States 09 February 1998   Ayurveda aids fight against AIDS, says US doctor For the first time in history, Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) deaths fell to 44% nationwide in the US in the past two years according to Dr Scott Gerson from the United States. Gerson, is in the city for the 10th International Seminar on Holistic Management of Cancer.   Cameron's Titanic lays anchor at Russian birthplace Director James Cameron brought his mega hit film Titanic to the Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad -- the place where he said the idea for the film was born, for its Russian premiere. Reel-life crisis grips film industry The sounds of clapboards at Mumbai's studios are growing fainter and fainter. An industry which has the reputation of kicking off films at the drop of a green buck has seen the launch of only five to six films (including Mehul Kumar's Kohram, Sanjay Gupta's Jung and Subhash Ghai's untitled project) this year. Killing disunity with Lata's songs Noted playback singer Lata Mangeshkar strongly criticised the political forces for the bad blood between the proponents of Marathi and Konkani. Lata pointed out that the feud would send bad signals to the patronisers of the English language.   Politics, Politics... Either Mr.I.K.Gujral believes that this is a television election or else he wants as much TV coverage as possible before the polls because he's not sure how much he might get after them. Last week the Prime Minister inaugurates the STAR News Channel (SNC) and sounds so honoured to be there, you'd have thought they'd done him a favour, not the other way round. Elephanta festival enthralls The tenth Elephanta Festival of dance and music that concluded at the islands late in the night will be remembered for the virtuoso performance by Ileana Citaristi, the Italian-born Odissi danseuse. Ileana enthralled the audience with performances like Pallavi and ashtapadi on Friday, the first day of the two-day festival, organised by the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC).     "Brecht's works distorted"