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1. Eight men meet. Each man shakes hands with each of theothers.
How many handshakes in all?
2. Prepare your answer as you read on. Retracing your stepsis
not allowed:
A bus starts with no passengers aboard. At the firststop, ten
passengers get in. When the bus stopped next,five got out and
twelve got in. At the third stop, three gotin and five got out.
When it stopped again, nine got in andseven got out. At the next
stop, nine more got in and onegot out.
Ready with your fig-ures? The question is:How many times did
the bus stop?3. There are three boxes,
all covered up. Onecontains gold coins,another silver coins,and
the third both goldand silver coins. Thereare three labels
too,Gold, Silver and
Mixed. The catch is, each of these labels is stuck on thewrong
box.
Now, you are allowed to pick up, eyes shut, just onecoin from
any of the boxes. From the coin you have thuspicked up, you must
tell which box contains what. Howcan you do this?
4. When does year indicate distance?5. Is it legal for a man to
marry his widows sister?6. What occurs once in a year, twice in a
week and never in
an hour?7. It comes once every summer, twice every autumn,
never
in spring or winter. What is it?8. Hasan, staying in a hotel,
paid Rs 15 for a coffee. When
the cashier discovered that he had overcharged by Rs 5,he sent
the room-boy to Hasans room with five one-rupeenotes. The dishonest
room-boy gave three to Hasan,keeping two for himself. Hasan has now
paid Rs 12. Theroom-boy has acquired Rs 2. This accounts for Rs
14.Where is the missing rupee?
9. What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your
left?10. How many birthdays does a typical woman have?
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FEBRUARY 9, 20118
Shreya Ghoshal has a reputation for re-cording songs in a
jiffyeven in an unfamiliarlanguage. But it could take months of
waitingto get the busy Bollywood playback singer toa recording
studio down south.
And it would be worth the wait: Shreya isnot only a captivating
singer but near-perfectin diction whether the song is in Tamil,
Teluguor Malayalam.
This singing sensation is well on her wayto achieving something
her illustrious prede-cessors failed to doreign the charts
acrossregions and languages.
A huge hit in Tamil where she sang underthe baton of maestro A R
Rahman in the filmSillinnoru Kadhal, Shreya is currently therage in
Kerala with her latest songs in An-war scored by Gopi Sundar.
Though she was introduced by Alphonsein the film Big B and won
State Award forBenares Chantu thottille...), it is Qalbi-lethee. of
Anwar that has taken her to thetop of the charts.
Rarely do talent, fame and recognition sittogether. But in
Shreyas case they seem in-separable. In a dream career, she has
alreadybagged four National Awards and three StateAwards. Her fame
has also crossed the shoreswith the US State of Ohio even declaring
June26 as Shreya Ghoshal Day to honour hercontributions to the
music industry.
In an ecstatic response Shreya tweeted:Its an honour which has
been given topersonalities, artists n litterateurs since manyyears.
I was informed that Tagore, SwamiVivekananda were the
recipients...My namewent into the same archives. Unimaginable!!
A Bengali brought up in Rajasthan, Shreya
FIRST TAKE>Jyothi Varma
Did you know that Ohio State in the US observesJune 26 as Shreya
Ghoshal Day?
ShreyaGho
shal
moved to Mumbai to try her luck as a singer.It was filmmaker
Sanjay Leela Bhansali who
first noticed her talent on a show and prompt-ly commissioned
her for his Devadas projectas the voice of Paro in the tragic love
story.Shreya later remarked that to bring pain,pathos and innocence
into her modulation sheimagined herself to be Paro.
Shreya attaches great importance to voicemodulationto suit not
the actor but thecharacter. This is best illustrated by the
au-thentic feel she imparts to the characters inDevadas and
Guru.
Malayalam music director Veetrag, who hasassigned Shreya for a
song in the upcomingKamal film Gaddama, finds her quick onthe
uptake: Shreya deals out a near-perfectMalayalam diction and a
magical feel. Hergrasping power is unbelievable and her sing-ing
style unique.
Shreya can not only adapt to situations onthe screen but is
highly receptive to audi-ences during stage shows. One recalls a
stageshow hosted in Chennai a couple of years agoin honour of music
maestro Ilayaraja whereShreya, who was yet become established,sang
along with the likes of Hariharan, S PBalasubrahmaniam and
Ilayaraja himself.
As she rendered the song Naan thedumjamanthi poovithu she
quickly realised fromthe audience reactions that she had made
aminor mistake and immediately sang the cor-rect version.
Later, Ilayaraja came up to the microphoneand complimented her:
She realised hermistake and was quick to correct it the nexttime.
The quality any singer should have.
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TEASERS>
Where did that rupee go?
Answers
1. Twenty-eight times.2. Five.3. Pick up a coin from the box
marked Mixed, which,being wrongly labelled, is
sure to contain either gold(only) or silver (only) coins.If you
picked a gold coin,then of course it is the realGold box. If so,
the boxlabelled Silver is actuallythe Mixed one, and the onemarked
Gold is all silver. Incase you picked silver, youcan work out the
boxes simi-larly.
4. When preceded by lightinlight year.
5. A dead man cannot marry!6. The letter e.7. The letter u.
8. To add the room-boys Rs 2 tothe Rs 12 Hasan paid for hisroom
is meaningless. Hasanhas spent Rs 12, (of whichthe cashier has Rs
10 and theroom-boy Rs 2). Hasan gotback Rs 3 that accounts forthe
full amount of Rs 15.
9. The left elbow.10. One birthday, of course.l
ightyearmeasuresdistance
