Page 13 - Indulekha Aravind

Riding the wave

Chennai's first surfing school is teaching people how to read the currents and catch the tide

'We danced till dawn'

Bangalore¿s suburb of Whitefield is a boom town, drawing new development and businesses. But the original Anglo-Indian residents miss their ¿pretty little village¿

Promise land

These days, much of the manual work in Kerala is done by migrant labour from poorer states

Troubled waters

Do the attacks on Sri Lankan pilgrims in Tamil Nadu stem from a lingering sympathy for Eelam? Or was it just fringe elements encouraged by political posturing by DMK and AIADMK?

Exposed the granite scam

View from the top

We identify some of the most exciting and luxurious penthouses up for grabs in Bangalore

Ali Baba's cave

Three generations of a business family in Kerala have built up a unique collection of crystal, ivory and ceramics - and a museum to house it

God's own oarsmen

Three days that shook Bangalore

Not just SMSes & posts on social networking sites, panic happened due to concrete instances

Blow a lament

The St John's cemetery in Kalpally is the last resting place for many colonials, and a draw for their descendants

The pill pushers

There are 20,000 pharma cos in India scrambling to get doctors to prescribe their drugs

On a musical mission

Neecia Majolly is a performer and teacher of Western classical music. She is organising India's first choral competition, and trying to assure fellow musicians an income

A river runs through it

Starring: A backpack

Twenty-five directors, 13 countries, one movie. How did they manage to pull it off?

Situation in hand

Four years ago Bangalore's traffic police got mobile devices to record traffic violations electronically. The system works - and now it is spreading

Man on a mission

With 17 launches in the last 30 months and another 26 coming up in the next two years, ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan seems to have finally put last year's ugly spat over Devas behind him

Double roles

A schoolteacher turns himself into Mahatma Gandhi. A lover of old films decides to take on MGR¿s identity. And a policeman becomes a photographer to capture their lives

On a mission to create workforce

Manipal Global Education plans more corporate education institutes to churn out industry-ready graduates

The answer to his prayers

Father Michael helps keep his Benedictine monastery solvent by making mozzarella, ricotta, pecorino, caciotta, bocconcini...

In his father's shoes?