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Want to know who won the National Bridge Championship? Interested in the results of the women8217;s World Cup Cricket 8217;97 ? Or who are the legends who shaped sports last year? The answers to these are available in the Sportsnet8217;s Sports Year book 1998, a quick reference book on sports events, both national and international, and a compilation of a range of sports events.
The book, specially designed with the golden jubilee of the Indian Independence in mind, encompasses a range of sports events in a chronological order and includes information on sports personalities like Vijay Hazare, B S Chandrashekhar, Vishwanath Anand, Khashaba Yadav who have passed into the national hall of fame. Edited by Pune-based sports journalist Hemant Jogdeo, the book has contributions from Nandu Natekar and Nandan Bal among others.
Here8217;s to ethnicity
Tribal motifs like white Warli stick figures on eye-catching blue ceramic plates and bowls and geometric designs on ceramic pots are some of the unusual designs at Devyani8217;s Creations, an exhibition-cum-sale of ceramic pottery and oil paintings on display at the Rabindra Kala Kunj, above the Nehru Memorial Hall.
The three-day exhibition, which started on May 31, is Aruna Pinge8217;s first solo one. A senior scientific officer at the State Public Health Laboratory, Pinge started working with cold ceramics in her spare time a year ago. 8220;I want to concentrate on tribal art for tableware like cup and saucer sets, dry fruit bowls and plates,8221; she says. The exhibition includes fine landscape and still-life oil paintings of her daughter Devyani, after whom the creations are named. The exhibition, which is open from 10 am to 8.30 pm, is worth a dekko.
Sleeping beauty
There is sleep and then there is catching up with sleep and then there is something actress Seema Kapoor does. In Pune for a shoot for an ad film, the controversial telestar, who put up in a hotel in Deccan whilst in the city, had obviously decided that this is where she wanted to catch some 40,000 winks. So you could call her up early morning, mid-morning, early afternoon, late afternoon, evening, night and even close to midnight and the star with a capital S was always, but always sleeping, with stern Do not disturb8217; instructions given to the hotel authorities that they meekly passed on to the callers. We had heard the Pune climate does wonders for relaxing Mumbaites8217; mind, but to this extent?
Outa-site!
Now there is really no escape from the world of Osho. Osho Times International, the glossy dedicated to Osho8217;s vision, has launched itself on the worldwide web. It now offers an online edition as part of the osho.org website, plus a special preview section where browsers can look at articles that will appear shortly in the latest print edition. However, on the down side, the magazine itself has become a quarterly from a monthly.
8220;This move was critical in terms of freeing the staff; and it also gave us time to create the new web edition of Osho Times International,8221; clarifies Swami Chaitanya Keerti, editor of the magazine, adding, 8220;Our presence on the web will alert more people around the world to the quality and availability of the publication, and we expect our international circulation to rise accordingly.8221;
The online version of the magazine offers articles, cooking recipes, tarot readings, editorial comments and 8220;zen sticks8221; directed at various social and political targets. In the forthcoming July issue, one such target seems to be actor Richard Gere, who is the butt of the Commune8217;s criticism, according to the preview section. So, net surfers with a desire to key into Osho8217;s stream of thought, check out the site.