Mallika on a mission
Aditi Tandon

Her beauty, her IIM degree, her bindaas attitude and the Sarabhai suffix to her name emerge as mere incidentals when you shake hands with Mallika Sarabhai, the theatre artiste and activist who is out to set many social wrongs right. HER dense, long mane is history. So is her once-raging reputation as a sex symbol. Mallika Sarabhai, today, is a woman reinvented, and liberated from the shadows of her past. Crisp, short hair is just part of the makeover for this artiste, who is now centrestage with her activism. Not too long ago, she was seen wooing a handsome Farooque Shaikh in the all-time film Katha. ‘Feminism to me is humanism’

Flying start to your dream car
Man’s elusive dream of flying a car will soon be a reality. A number of auto manufacturers in developed countries are in the advanced stages of putting wings on the automobile and making a hybrid of car and plane, says Gyan Marwah
IN the 1974 James Bond thriller The Man with the Golden Gun, viewers gasped in amazement when the villain’s car changed into an airplane and took off. Film critics said it was author Ian Fleming’s imagination working overtime. A car, they derided, was a vehicle driven on terra firma and a plane was meant to fly. They were as much apart as humans and birds.

Driven with passion
Revathi Roy has launched Forsche, her unique venture of luxury taxis for women driven by women, in Mumbai. She now owns 18 taxis, reports Vimla Patil
IF you had met me just a few years ago, I would have cried on your shoulder to start with," says the sprightly Revathi Roy, "My husband died after his long battle with heart disease. His treatment and hospitalisation took away not only my savings but even my mother’s money. I was desolate and devastated because I had to bring up three children on my own. All around me, everything collapsed and nothing, it seemed, could bring me out of the mess.