Yoga: GenNow’s power pill
YOGA is all the rage. With more and more people, especially the young, taking to it in droves, yoga is the new lifestyle trend. It is as much a must-do as the malls and multiplexes, says Aradhika Sekhon YOGA has done for the global lifestyle what the Kamasutra did for global sex. Like Vatsayana’s famed treatise, it has survived through centuries and grown beyond its Indian origins to become a worldwide mantra. Madonna does it, so does Hema Malini.

Chill out with salsa
This Latino dance form is sweeping both the young and not-so-young off their feet

IT’S hot and happening, sizzling and pulsating, young and vibrating and now it’s taking even the laid-back Chandigarhians by storm. Five years after it happened in Delhi, Mumbai and Goa, the Latino dance salsa is the latest on the fad scene in the city. In the more cosmopolitan cities, however, it has already reached its zenith of popularity and is being practised with gay abandon in discotheques and bars and even in the more upmarket weddings. Salsa is a fun way to keep fit for many youngsters

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Splash with style
Aren’t fashion and the monsoon contradictory? Think again. Rashmi Kushwaha gives a lowdown on an emerging sector — dressing up in style for arguably one of India's favourite seasons.