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  Myths about acne die hard. Old wives’ tales about its causes continue to persist, in spite of scientific condition to the contrary. This article aims to shed light on some common myths about acne and attempts to separate fact from fiction. Myth 1: People who have acne are unclean and maintain poor hygiene There is absolutely no truth to this statement. Acne is caused by a hormonal imbalance in the body. When the oil glands responsible for keeping our skin waterproof and moist, over react to produce excessive quantities of sebum, they block the associated hair follicle, causing clogged pores, which develops into acne. So hygiene has absolutely nothing to do with it. In fact unnecessary scrubbing of the skin can exacerbate the problem. Do take care of your skin though – wash your face gently and pat dry. Myth 2: Eating the wrong foods will lead to acne The fact is that there is no co-relation between what you eat and acne. The chocolates, the French fries, the cheese pizza, and all...

  If you’re a tea drinker, it’s likely that you’ve tried jasmine tea. Jasmine tea is the most popular blend of Chinese tea, and has been produced for more than 700 years. It was first produced during the Sung dynasty, by plucking the jasmine leaves as soon as they begin to bloom. The freshly plucked jasmine leaves were stored in a cool place until nightfall, when the blossoms began to release their fragrance. Then the jasmine petals were added to dry heaps of tea leaves, to allow the dry tea leaves to absorb the fragrance. Ordinary grades were scented two or three times; the special grades even more. Today, the process is much the same, though it may not be carried out by hand these days. The best jasmine tea is said to come from the Fujian province in China. This is because this area of China produces the largest and heaviest scented jasmine leaves and some of the loosest tea leaves, which can absorb the jasmine fragrance better. Like with most other teas, the first pluckings in t...

 “WHAT EVER YOU DO IN LIFE LET GOD DIRECT YOUR PATH, FUTURE AND YOUR DESTINY.” The Word of God cannot work without Faith. You cannot understand without Faith. Speak the word of Healing and you will be healed. Faith is certain of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. God’s word is living and active. It penetrates to driving our Body, Mind and Soul. Praise the Lord in the mist of the Problem. Ask God for his Help. Listen to the Lord. Pray for deliverance. Always think Positive. Raising the bar is getting closer to God. Every Season in your Life has a Purpose. Our Lives are determined by the Season’s. Go from Pain to Power. God cannot Heal a thing by saying it is not there. You must admit your Present Condition. Your true Beauty is in your Inner Self. Life and Death are in the Power of the Tongue. Your Mind plays an important role in your Victory. Nothing is to Hard for God. Life is Lived from the Inside Out. All we have is Today The Future is the Past that has not happe...

  There are museums that feature miniatures located all over the country. While many are larger museums that choose to display miniature amongst their other exhibits, there are a few that exclusively have miniature houses, miniature dolls and miniature furniture. The Miniature Museum of Greater St. Louis is one such place. Created in 1989, the museum provides a hosting site for educational events of cultural relevance. In addition to its displays, The Miniature Museum of Greater St. Louis conducts workshops for hobbyists of all skill levels and abilities. Builders of miniature houses may also be interested in the “miniatures only” garage sale hosted here every year. Located for many years within the Knott’s Berry Farm complex, Motts Miniatures is now located nearby in Fullerton, California. This historic company, founded by the Mott Family in 1911, features an extensive collection of miniature houses and miniature dolls. Allegra Mitchell’s fascination with miniature dolls began wit...

When a vehicle in front of you is moving slowly, you would rather want to pass that vehicle and get on your way quickly. However, there are still some conditions or situations that you would have to consider first before you do such a thing. You see, you could get into accidents or collisions if you just keep on passing other vehicles without much precaution. Passing is also known as overtaking. The lane used for this activity is almost always on the inside lane which is somewhere towards the center of the road and away from the road shoulder. On a road with two lanes, the passing lane is oftentimes in the direction of oncoming traffic. However, it is only allowed on long straightways with plenty of visibility. On the other hand, on a multi-lane highway, any lane can be considered as a passing lane. If you are a new driver, you may think that passing is easy. However, think again for it could really get quite tricky. You should not pass if there is a solid yellow line on your side. Als...

 If on-line trend reportage is to be believed – forever a fairly huge if, avowedly – generation Z isn't big on observation movies, succumbing instead to the shorter, smaller-screen attract of TikTok and YouTube for his or her viewing pleasure. maybe that’s one reason why there doesn’t appear to be a definitive canon of teenybopper films for the post-millennial generation – however then, Hollywood has typically struggled with capturing up to date youth once films tend to be created by their elders. That inequality isn’t entirely fastened by 2 info Z-themed films out on VOD last week, although each – to the current craggy recent millennial’s mind, a minimum of – have chiseler teeth than several of their ungainly peers. Halina Reijn’s temptingly slick Bodies Bodies Bodies smartly weaves a critique of zoomers’ fast-evolving identity politics through the sillier, historically teen-targeted genre prism of the slasher movie. Lena River Dunham’s Sharp Stick takes a scruffier, less business...

At last: a shake-up, a crack within the wall, a challenge to the canon, a modification to an equivalent previous list-making business of shuffle the same old names during a slightly completely different order at the top. Sight associate degreed Sound magazine has proclaimed the results of its latest decennial Greatest Film of All Time critics’ poll and Chantal Akerman’s radically austere, heavy and sensible 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, twenty three Quai du Commerce, 1080 national capital is in with a bullet at No 1. this can be the spookily unsettling and spellbinding three-hour-plus account of one mother’s apparently banal life in period long takes, that increasingly disclose an awful secret. With a fierce, cold, sustained blaze, the flick speaks to up to date problems and questions: housekeeping as work, sex work as work, the burden of kinship and caregiving, the theatre of bourgeois respectability, the terrible loneliness of domestic life and feminine marginalisation, the disregarded o...

The brawl fits into the timeline of the Seattle Mariners' sudden turnaround from afterthought to wild-card contender, a surge that includes the team's current 14-game win streak -- the longest ever for a team heading into the All-Star break and one short of the franchise record set in 2001. The Mariners' bench-clearing brawl with the Los Angeles Angels took place on June 26, and calling it epic might be a bit of hyperbole, but it certainly was one of the more contentious baseball fights in recent years, eventually resulting in 12 suspensions, including 10 games for Angels manager Phil Nevin. The Mariners actually lost that day, however, falling to 34-40, seven games out of the final wild-card spot. They lost the next day as well, as the Baltimore Orioles hammered them 9-2 in Seattle. Things were bleak. The team was struggling, injuries had decimated the lineup, and Seattle was about to lose Jesse Winker, J.P. Crawford and even Julio Rodriguez for one game each due to brawl ...

Early on in Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, one of the trio of lead characters gives a fictional interview to a very real video games publication. The troubled but passionate Samson Mazur tells the interviewer, “There is no more intimate act than play, even sex.” This is an explosive statement, but a perfect one in the context of a novel that treasures the act of play and holds it sacred. In some ways, this is a thesis statement for Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow itself: the novel opening its heart, and showing you what it is truly about. Video games are seldom treated in literature as a site of emotion, but in Zevin’s work they are the very landscape that the full spectrum of relationships, grief, and love play out in. The world of video games is a surprisingly uncommon location for the modern commercial or literary novel, despite the fact that they have long since evolved from children’s toy or tech curio into a form of entertainment that is so mainstrea...

It’s too early to say for sure but, judging by the reaction to the recently released Minions: The Rise of Gru, it’s definitely the latter. In fact, so many young people are attending Minions screenings in formalwear in order to honk full-volume gibberish at the screen that cinemas have started to turn people away. This might require some explanation. This weekend, as the movie hit cinemas, a few select TikTok users started filming themselves watching the film in their smartest outfits. These brave pioneers – Gentleminions, they call themselves – quickly sparked a rush of imitators. One user filmed a group of well-dressed Gentleminions applauding each other like wedding attendees as they left a screening. Another asked her entire family to dress up, on the pretence that she was taking them out for the night of their lives, only to then show them all sullenly sitting through the sequel to a spinoff of the Despicable Me films. You would think that this sort of behaviour would be like nect...

Most lovers of 70s Hindi cinema would instantly recognise ‘uncle’ David, the endearing old man who was a constant fixture in every Hrishikesh Mukherjee film. But he was also an avid sports enthusiast, and he might have had something to do with Steven Spielberg’s 2005 film, Munich. Nobody talks about the sporting life of Indian film folk. In the checkered history of Indian cinema, many a singer, lyricist or actor has won medals and been in the Olympics. Manna Dey was a wrestler. Janki Das broke a few world records in cycling and was a member of the International Olympic Committee at the Berlin Olympics of 1936. Actor David Abraham Cheulkar, known widely for playing the endearing “uncle”, was president of the Maharashtra Weightlifting Federation and vice president of the Indian Weightlifting Federation and served on the Olympic Committee, representing India. David took interest in theatre since his days at St. Joseph’s School and Wilson College. Curiously, he was doing plays in French. A...

Helmed by Nagesh Kukunoor, the show delivers plenty of screwball comedy and sentimentality, though not always with the desired level of conviction or consistency. Two months ago, we had the Mumbai edition of Modern Love that while working within the parameters of warm, feel-good stories around love and coming-of-age made a few unorthodox choices in its themes. Modern Love Hyderabad, on the other hand, seems relatively far more relaxed and limited in its aspirations - which turns out to be both its strength and undoing, depending on the segment we are seeing unfold. The good thing about Modern Love Hyderabad, written by Nagesh Kukunoor, Bahaish Kapoor, and Shashi Sudigala, is how not all of it necessarily conforms to our traditional ideas of ‘love stories,’ and attempts to explore other forms of relationships as well. The sad part is how very little of it seems integral to Hyderabad - the writers, besides keeping the lingo culturally rooted, make very little attempt to locate their narr...

Jugjugg Jeeyo’s apologetic feminism aims to cater to both feminists and conservatives. As a consequence, it is neither here nor there and may as well be nowhere. In some ways, the new Hindi film Jugjugg Jeeyo (Live Long and Prosper) reminds me of the recent Malayalam release Jo and Jo. The latter was about a daughter facing discrimination from her mother who dumps household chores on the girl while leaving her son free to lounge around. Jo and Jo was so fearful of antagonising the audience beyond their threshold of tolerance for liberalism, that each time it showed the daughter rightly protesting against an injustice within the family, it also swiftly softened the blow by trivialising her and her concerns. Raj Mehta’s Jugjugg Jeeyo – written by Anurag Singh, Rishhabh Sharrma, Sumit Batheja and Neeraj Udhwani – is more committed to its ideals than Jo and Jo, but it too is at pains to soften the blow of its explicit feminism by balancing out every criticism of a husband’s infidelity and ...

Anup Jalota said, “Solah Baras Ki Baali Umar and Aisi Laagi Lagan were from two very different genres, but they established me as a singer.” It was a regular work day at Mehboob Studios. It was the early 80s and Bollywood’s famous composers Laxmikant-Pyarelal, lyricist Anand Bakshi and SwarKokila Lata Mangeshkar were busy working on the song Solah Baras Ki Baali Umar (from the then yet-to-released super hit film 'Ek Duuje Ke Liye', 1981). At that time, music director Madan Mohan Kohli’s daughter brought along a young man in his 20s to the studio saying that he wanted to witness a song recording. That man was the son of respected bhajan singer Purshottam Das Jalota, Anup Jalota. “I knew that Lata Mangeshkar was recording a song there and I went over to see her. Once she was done with her recording, she left and I too prepared to leave. Then, Laxmikant-Pyarelal stopped me saying, ‘Arre rukiye, chai peeke jaiyega (wait, you must have tea with us)’. And then they asked if I would s...

Miriam Toews’s novels are often described as tragicomedies, populated by war survivors, and set in or around Mennonite communities where Toews, too, grew up. In works such as All My Puny Sorrows, following the relationship of two sisters, and the spectacular Women Talking, about cloistered women who gather in secret after a series of sexual assaults, Toews grapples with the humiliations of motherhood, the burdens of sisterhood, abuse, grief and suicide: a wound from her own life that she nurses throughout her work. Her novels are heart-wrenching and raw; they’re all, in some way, about the drudging ordinariness of female pain, everyday indignities from which she extracts big tearful belly laughs. “To be alive,” Toews writes, “means full body contact with the absurd.” Toews’s primary theme is the battles of women in a world of cruel men, and intergenerational misfires as mothers try to protect and warn their daughters. Her eighth novel, Fight Night, is an ode to grandmotherly defiance, ...

Nawazuddin Siddiqui speaks about the importance and relevance of film festivals in a world where box office is considered to be the end game, representing India on a global scale, treading foreign waters and more. After delivering a slew of critically acclaimed performances and winning big at film festivals over the years, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui added yet another feather to his cap last month when he was honoured with the Excellence in Cinema award at the French Riviera Film Festival, 2022. And seems like there’s no stopping him as the upcoming months will see him having a chock-o-block schedule along with many releases lined up. Later in the year, he will be jetting off to New York to shoot for an American project titled Laxman Lopez. In a chat with us, Siddiqui speaks about the importance and relevance of film festivals in a world where box office is considered to be the end game, representing India on a global scale, treading foreign waters and more. Excerpts from the interview: ...

In an exclusive conversation with Firstpost, Prakash Jha talks about Aashram 3, flexibility on OTT and the growing debate on Hindi Vs South Indian languages. Season 3 of Bobby Deol's 'Aashram' is all set to release on MX Player on June 3 and the makers are ready to re-create the success story that the first two chapters have created. Titled ‘Ek Badnaam… Aashram 3’, the story of chapter three revolves around the meteoric rise of godmen in India and how the masses blindly follow them in the name of religion. During the launch of the third season of the show in the capital, producer-director Prakash Jha spoke about the creative independence that the OTT platform gives to a maker. “For me, whether it is a web –series or a film, I work similarly. I don’t see any difference in doing films or OTT shows but yes Creative liberty must be done with responsibility and I do that with both the medium,” he said. "I think OTT has little flexibility because you have the option of watch...

Does singing exert pressure on the heart? Do live concerts take their own toll in the context of energy consumed and physical pressures? Should a singer with heart ailment avoid singing in the interest of longevity? Krishnakumar Kunnath aka KK, passed away doing what he loved – singing on stage. His going away suddenly and at a young age left thousands of fans grieving and questioning the circumstances under which he collapsed. While there is a melancholic comfort in knowing that a musician died doing what he loved but the tragic circumstances – the fact it played out in front of a live audience – makes it even more unfortunate. Also, there have been several instances of musicians dying while performing. Playback singer KK, was singing at a live concert at Ultadanga Gurudas Mahavidyalaya at the Nazrul Mancha stage when he fell ill during a performance on stage. Known to be a non-smoker, teetotaller and generally fit; what killed KK? That is the big question. KK was repeatedly saying on...