Making a home in an apartment Professional planning makes all the difference between an insipid apartment and a tastefully done up home, writes Neera Gulati.
A copper metal vase keeps flowers fresh All floriculturists like to keep their vase of cut flowers looking fresh for as long as possible. More so in the present conditions when people find it difficult to maintain even their small cottage flower garden owing to the high cost of living.
From dilapidation to visual paradise Transforming a sight of ruin into one of sheer beauty and a home to live in, is no mean task. Aruna Chandaraju tells us how Jeffry and Nisha Rebello changed a 125-year-old heritage property that had weeds growing out of the ground, into a virtual paradise.
Let fresh air work its magic on you Human beings need a lot of fresh air to lead a healthy life and we need to make provision for as much of it to enter our houses, writes K Jayaram.
The nations conscience is divided between whether to retain incumbent President Abdul Kalam or anoint a woman president in the form of Pratibha Patil. Will the UPA candidate Ms Patil make a better constitutional head than Mr Kalam? Certainly not, feel a majority of Deccan Herald readers. Since Ms Patil will become a pawn in the hands of her political boss, they want someone with a firm hand to be in the post.
