| Diana gowns get $1.2M | | Ten dresses worn by the late
Princess Diana, including a velvet, midnight blue gown she danced in with John Travolta at the White House in 1985, fetched more than £800,000 ($1.2 million) at a London auction on Tuesday. | | Ageing harder for American women | | Ageing is a concern for many Americans, particularly its impact on health, but men seem to have an easier time dealing with the hallmarks of passing years than women, according to a new survey. | | Purple Haze | | Jeet Thayil explores the narcotic-laced margins of Bombay’s underbelly in his much-lauded
debut novel Narcopolis | | Standing the test of time | | IT’S A MARK of how dicey a subject beauty really is, that people will — nine times on ten — go for the tried and tested route rather than experiment. | | Top 10 stopover stays | | Experience lavish pools, great cuisines, go souk shopping, relax in splendid spas, and even learn a martial art form or two, at these pick of places | | Murder, she wrote | | Criminal profiler Pat Brown believes Cleopatra didn’t choose to make a quick exit with a snake bite, but that she met a crueller fate | | Silent Expressions | | Three artists come together to display their works that make a statement — loud and clear — without making a sound | | Stretch the
celebrations! | | ‘Fitness parties’ are the new rage as revellers mark milestones by working up a sweat, instead of knocking a few back | | Keeping the spark alive | | John O’Farrell’s The Man Who Forgot His Wife — about a man who did just that — is poignant, yet deliriously funny, and offers solid marital advice
you won’t forget in a hurry | |
