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Sikhism and yoga have found a new home in Mexico, reports Ajit Jain IF you visit the Shunia Yoga Life centre in the swank Polanco district of Mexico City, don’t let the owner’s name, Jai Hari Singh, mislead you. He is Francois Valuet, a French national who has lived in Mexico City for over 30 years, converted to Sikhism and changed his name.

The play is the thing
Punjabi-speaking writer Swadesh Deepak broke the citadel of Hindi writing with Court Martial. Nirupama Dutt traces the dramatic journey of the award-winning playwright
SWADESH Deepak began his literary journey as a writer of short fiction and then he moved onto novels, but real glory stood awaiting him in his next avtar as a playwright. This playwright of Court Martial fame was presented the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award on the May 13 this year for his overall contribution to Hindi theatre.

Train on the table
Shirish Joshi on the toy food train of the Gwalior Maharaja
WITH the wealth amassed in his state at his disposal, the then king of Gwalior in the 1940s was busy in indulging in his personal hobbies, and at times eccentricities. The Maharaja of Gwalior was very fond of electric trains.

Classic wine in new avatar
Saibal Chatterjee on producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s screen adaptation of Sarat Chandra’s literary masterpiece
THE year: 2002. The creator: that intrepid maverick, Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The inspiration: the timeless Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. The result: a super-successful Devdas. The literary fountain from which Hindi cinema once used to draw most of its substance hasn’t dried up.

‘Casting couch is not a fiction’
Minna Zutshi meets actor Katrina Kaif, who was recently in Jalandhar
SHE’S young and she oozes appeal. Unlike other models who wear a signature scowl on their face, Katrina Kaif loves to flaunt her smile. Her talk about herself is punctuated with a big, bright smile, though the smile stiffens slightly as she talks of the dog-eat-dog world of modelling.

Herr Shah Rukh
DOROTHY Wenner laughs as she tells the story of the time when two young Turkish girls almost beat her up, all for Shah Rukh Khan. As a curator with the Berlin International Film Festival, Wenner has been instrumental in screening old and contemporary Bollywood films in Germany and helping promote them across Europe.