Beauty and the
Brains - Miss World 2000 - (Apr. 30,
2000)
The matter was finally decided not by which girl has
the beauty, but which girl has the brains. The judges asked all the five similar and very
ordinary looking questions and I was really amused to hear some of the dumb answers.
Rumtek Monastery - September
1999 - (Apr. 23, 2000)
The Rumtek Monastery is also very famous for its 'Cham
Festival'. The Cham is held in all the Buddhist monasteries, normally in the month of
December and in the Rumtek Monastery on the fifth month of the Tibetan Calendar.
Democracy at grass root level - (Apr. 16,
2000)
Normally a Pipon could also influence the voting
pattern in the village. Till recently people used to vote as advised by the Pipon, though
recently there has been some change.
Kashmiri Panda in Haridwar -
(Apr. 09, 2000)
In all fifty two Pindas are given. Wheat is not used in
Pinda Dhana because rice is supposed to be the original food.
Remembering My Father -
(Apr. 02, 2000)
I started crying to see my father, a champion wrestler,
reduced to a little parcel hung on the rain tree in the garden of his house in Madras.
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