Wednesday, October 7, 1998
Diet gurus add fat to the flame on slimming
Can one `hog' and still be slim? Yes! "Slimming is not starving but enjoying a complete meal,'' is the new revolutionary concept on weight loss being promoted by western health experts, but totally rejected by the doctors.
All shot and nowhere to go
This year, Diwali may fail to lift the pall of gloom that has set over Bollywood. The festival of lights may have brought down the curtain on a bad year that saw such big-budget films as Jeans, Major Saab and Dil Se.. bomb, but it also marks the beginning of worse times. Flop-weary distributors have refused to touch films that are complete or in advanced stages of production.
Art collectors: Aficionados or Shoppers?
The opportunity to view Jehangir Nicholson's collection at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, is a positively gratifying experience. The collection is laudable not only for its size -- the 300-odd works and their historical significance -- but because at heart it is driven by sentiment, not shrewdness and is entirely innocent of any speculative intent.
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