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Love me, love my dog
The city is certainly not beautiful when it comes to the medical care of darling pets, dog-lovers
tell Aruti Nayar
CITY Beautiful has come a long way as a happening destination for corporates and the hip and happening crowd. Each day a new eatery, club, bar or health/beauty clinic come up. There are outlets for dog grooming and training but the medical care for pets in sadly lacking.
Gardens: Old is gold
Joyshri Lobo
SOIL should look dark, crumbly and moist. Caked and cracked soil is too clayey, cannot breathe and the plants in it look sad and under nourished. The same holds true for sandy soil. It does not retain water, dries fast and raises weak plants.
COOL STUFF
Radiation safe mobile
WORRIED about the electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones, your prayers are answered. Cogent EMR solutions now offers products meant for checking harmful radiations coming from mobile handsets with a micro chip attached to the top of the mobile phone. The chip produced by Cogent Solutions diminishes the harmful radiations when the phone is in use.
BON APPETIT
The biscuit barrel
Kandla Nijhowne
 THE Japanese may be known for their tea-drinking ceremony but it’s we Indians who will put the kettle on at the drop of a hat. On a killer day, when everything’s askew, give me a book, and I’ll curl up like a prawn and switch off from civilization. “Pour” in a shot of my caffeine fix, and life’s already looking up. ”Fold in” a platter of home-baked cookies, and I’m on Mount Everest! I’m infected by this dehaati streak of dunking my biscuit in the steaming chai. The challenge of retrieving it whole, before it disintegrates, is an adventure in itself, requiring practice, skill and concentration.
Mera
Yaar Meri Zindagi…
Nirupama Dutt
MEET
QAXI NADEEB IQBAL, a journalist from Lahore, who is in India the sixth time in the past five years, and the song that comes to one’s lips is of vintage 70s. Yes, it is Yaari Hai Imaan Mera Yaar Meri Zindagi filmed on Pran in Zanjeer. The yaar, of course, was Big B, who became a super star with the film.
Freshers’ day out
SWIRLS of fabric, reverberating dhol music, waves created by psychedelic lights causing ripples and glittery dresses twinkling like stars…. You just cannot ask for more. And that also from young scholars treading the path of professionalism during Freshers party “Pristine – 2006” organised Friday afternoon at Chandigarh Group of Colleges in Landran, near Mohali.
FILM & FASHION
Lucky Paris
THE director of socialite Paris Hilton’s new direct-to-video comedy has defended the star against claims that she was late on the set and failed to learn her lines.
Actress Simona Fusco who co-stars in the film Bottoms Up had accused the heiress of almost ruining the movie with her diva antics. She said that Paris would turn up late, usually coming straight from a party and would never know any of her lines.
However, director Erik Macarthur confesses he had an affair with Fusco and claims she is angry because he only gave her one line.
Listening for talent
YOU love to chirp in sync with the music flowing out of the bathroom tap. But you just have not been able to display your flair before the microphone. In the very first place, opportunity never knocked at your door. Or even if it did, you never heard its thump because you were too busy listening to the din of daily existence with plugs in your ears.
TALENT HUNT: Looking for the voice of Punjab. —Photo
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Pollywood in the making
Smriti Sharma
SHOOTING in Chandigarh seems to be the latest fad among the filmmakers. Going by the number of films being shot in and around and with the proposed film city coming up soon, the city would soon be a hub of filmi people.
Mughlai Dum Pukht
Smriti Sharma
MUCH to the delight of the food lovers in Chandigarh, Copper Chimney in Sector-26 is beaming with activities these days; courtesy a food festival based on the Mughal era. Yes, the ongoing Dum Phukt Food Festival here is doing all the magic.
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