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Curvy figure

Curves are always in

30 December 2006

Here's something that everyone knows except those in the fashion industry and the ardent adherents of their myths: men like curves, and thin is not really in. Fully 80 per cent of men aged 18-50 want a voluptuous woman, according to former model Nancy Hayssen, who has written a book every woman could love based on the title alone: 101 Sexy Secrets: How to Be Hot, Sexy & Beautiful at ANY Size! Another 15 per cent men prefer a woman of average size, while just 5 per cent opt for a super skinny...

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Jane Goodall

From the archives: Jane Goodall to visit India

7 January 2003

For the little girl who grew up in war-ravaged England in the 1940s, the stories of Tarzan and Dr Dolittle, who lived in the jungles of Africa with their wild companions, were to change her life forever. Determined to share a forest home with African animals, she grew up to be Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost authority on chimpanzees today.Goodall’s observations and discoveries are now intemationally heralded. Her research and writing have made, and are making, revolutionary inroads into...

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Report | Northeast Vigil

Northeast marginalised at conference on human rights of marginalised and tribal communities

16 October 1999

DEHRA DUN: Issues of the Northeast were eclipsed at a much-hyped workshop deemed to focus on the human rights of marginalised and tribal communities held here in the first week of October. The Northeast could not have fared worse. Activists of the Naga People's Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR), the only rights activists from the Northeast, had to return without even uttering a single word at the workshop. A journalist who tried to raise the issue of how difficult it is for both human rights...

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Human rights and the media

16 October 1999

It was heartening to see mediapersons being the panelists at a forum on the role of the media. In a random survey of various seminars held on the issue in New Delhi in recent times, one found that among the speakers jurists accounted for 35 per cent, bureaucrats accounted for 35 per cent, politicians were 20 per cent, and mediapersons only 10 per cent. The mediapersons who usually speak at such fora usually belong to the management cadre in media establishments. The hackneyed "role of the media"...

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Report | Northeast Vigil

Mungro Planned to Assassinate Swu and Muivah, Says NSCN

29 August 1999

The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) has finally come out with the reasons that "necessitated the awarding of capital punishment" to Dally Mungro and two of his associates on 18 August 1999 at Jotsoma village near Kohima in Nagaland. An official statement made available to "Northeast Vigil" said many people from Khaplang's group had approached the NSCN leadership for talks and the latter responded positively. But late Dally and SC Jamir had stopped them and torpedoed the entire...

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Niortheast forests

Does Northeast Merit Its Own Forest Policy?

8 August 1999

WHAT EXPERTS/ENVIRONMENTALISTS SAY THE QUESTIONS: (1) Does the Northeast really need a separate "forest policy"? What can be so special about the Northeast that would merit a separate "forest policy"? (2) If such a policy comes into being, will it actually augur well for the Northeast? what should be the key features of such a policy? (3) The rich biodiversity of the Northeast is well-known. But can a separate forest policy make much of a difference in a situation where the prospects of a...

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Naga insurgency

Kaushal's Exit Should Not Harm Peace Process: Muivah

1 August 1999

The moment Swaraj Kaushal's resignation drama came out in the open, political circles have been full of rumours about how much it would harm the ongoing peace talks between the Indian government and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN). After all, Kaushal had been in constant touch with the NSCN leaders Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah over the past one year and more. Just because no political breakthrough has yet been achieved does not necessarily mean Kaushal had made no...

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Adolf Hitler

What's in a name?

20 January 1993

With the stage set for the February 15 Assembly polls in the Northeast, a surfeit of names crop up that extend from the ordinary to the bizarre. There are namesakes and names for names' sake. Adolf Hitler, for once, is not a member of the German National Socialist Party. He is not a protagonist of Nazism either for anybody to be alarmed of but just the Congress(I) nominee for the Rangsakona (ST) seat in Meghalaya. Adolf Hitler R Marak is his full name. The Great Dictator of the Third Reich is...

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