"I will not allow anyone to dictate terms to me"

FROM the early ‘70s, when the petite Guddi made us realise that the girl next door could also make it big in tinsel town, Jaya (Bhaduri) Bachchan has been a household name in the country. Highly talented, she left us spell-bound with the natural ease with which she emoted in movies like Uphaar, Sholay, Mili, Abhimaan, Koshish, Shor Parichay and Zanjeer.

Building prefabricated houses by Nirmal Sandhu

A mini Switzerland in HP by Balkrishan Prashar

He was a titan, not a postscript. Satyindra Singh on Minoo Masani

Politicians and the cartoonists by Darshan Singh Maini

Our regular features include:

• Modern Classics: Ashok Chopra concludes his profile of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
• Time off: TheSavile Row jaunt, by Manohar Malgonkar.
• Fitness: Ballet and body conditioning by Anup Deb Nath
• Garden Life: A clipped hedge gives you the hedge, says Satish Narula
• Your option Taru Bahl on a career in the farm sector.
• Bollywood Bhelpuri: by Madhur Mittal.
  A review of Wag the Dog by Ervell E. Menezes.
• Film and TV. Recalling the Raj, by Mukesh Khosla.
• Travel: Meditating over the shared secret of maya, by Arun Gaur