The hues in the canvas of life are due to emotions. A lazy Sunday afternoon treat of an old eighties’ classic Naya Din Nai Raat is the prelude to this thought. This movie was based on the nine emotions-as per the Indian ethos — where Sanjeev Kumar plays characters based on each of these. When one reviews the entire gamut of communication that is effective and meant to trigger your heart strings, all of them evolve from one such emotion.

Fifty years have gone by since our infamous defeat at the hands of the Chinese in 1962, but no firm answer has come from any quarter why it happened.

One cannot but lament at how a state so rich in its heritage of culture, sports and arts is held to ransom by a deadly combination of lack of development and progress; armed groups which began as classic insurgencies but converted to terrorism, extortion, murder, and even treachery; corruption; vote-bank based politics; foot-dragging bureaucracy; poorly trained and led police force etc.

We have one common laptop between us. I take it to my office in the morning and once I returned home she monopolises it for the rest of the evening checking mails networking in the Facebook appreciating hundreds of friends/semi friends on their original stolen, plagiarised posts clicking likes on their never ending changed profiles.

Some of the greatest of fictional works tell a story and also have in their core a compelling idea. Though the two are inseparable yet catchy titles attract reader’s attention more, says Anupam Srivastava, a former journalist who has recently penned his debut novel.

Raddi Bazaar was staged by students under the direction of Santanu Bose. The show is based on three of Badal Sircar’s best-known and most often staged plays, Evam Indrajit, Pagla Ghoda and Baaki Itihaas. Evam Indrajit is a play about the idealist in confrontation with the ordinary. The three ordinary Amal, Kamal and Vimal against Indrajit.

He was made controversy’s favourite child by a certain authoritative institution who claimed to be the staunch custodians of the bard’s pristine poetry and music.

On March 22, 2013, Chinese PLA’s Deputy Chief of General Staff, Lt. Gen. Qi Jianguo, heading an eight-member delegation, met defence minister A.K. Antony, defence secretary Shashi Kant and had talks agreeing, according to the DPR Defence press release, “to finalise the plan of bilateral exchanges between the Armed Forces of India and China. It was agreed that the strengthening of exchanges between the Armed Forces should be carried out as a way of building mutual trust and confidence and consistent with the overall bilateral relationship between both countries. The implementation of measures to ensure continued ‘peace and tranquillity’ along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) was also discussed.”

If it is A.R. Rahman in music, then it is Rahman brothers in the Nilgiris hills for home-made chocolates as these brothers have opened a new chapter in the annals of home-made chocolates by setting up their chocolate museum — M&N Chocolate Museum — on Mysore Road. The brothers claim it’s a first-of-its-kind in the country and gives an insight into the history of chocolate-making, especially the home-made chocolate.

The recently-launched 2013 Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific of Escap is forecasting a subdued growth of six per cent for the region in 2013 — up from 5.6 per cent in 2012. Although highest among regional growth rates, this is considerably lower than the pre-crisis level and the level achieved immediately after the crisis in 2010.