Kapila Chandran is dreamy; bites her nails and loves her friends. She believes she’s always surrounded by fairies; has even named her dog Magic. And she hastens to add that Kapila means ‘the wise one’ in Sanskrit, though people around her think she’s a ‘dumb blonde’ (mother’s Irish, father’s Indian) and don’t take her seriously…
Go Goa and don’t forget to check in at the Radisson White Sands Beach Resort to be pampered their way, with air conditioned deluxe suites, a mini bar, banana boat rides, jet skiing, parasailing, go carting, Mediterranean food and ambience… the list is endless. It’s better you check it out yourself DAY ONE – March…
In terms of summer popcorn, it’s a far chunkier offering than Jurassic Park 2, I said last week when I wrote about the Suchitra international film fest. Now that I have seen some of its cinematic offerings, I can also add the word refined. And by that, I don’t only mean the classics. Some of…
Once upon a time, Sadia Sayeed, then 17, got married to businessman Sayeed Hashim who owned Toyzone on MG Road and was also modelling on the side for such biggies as Binny’s and IBM. Today, Sayeed, 33, is the mother of two children, but her husband is no more. And she is no unemployed mother….
I respect women and consider them superior to the male species, says master lensman Prabuddha Das Gupta (45), when you ask him how he gets women to shed their inhibitions (remember his best-selling book on nudes in 1996?). “Women are more rooted and therefore more able to deal with the hardcore reality of things. And…
