Fluid forms
Jasleen has much going for her. For one, her passion for art overrides all things, even monetary gains and for another, her works are diverse, vibrant and serene, all at once.

Gardens: recipes and values for compost
No garden has the perfect soil. It is up to you to achieve perfection to whatever degree. Sometimes there is too much sand, clay or salinity. The ideal soil has to be created. Here too we come up with a single, bankable asset—compost. Whether the soil is hard, compacted, heavy or waterlogged, the one component that improves its texture, fertility and water holding capacity is compost.

COOL STUFF
Home décor discounts from Godrej
Godrej Interio, a division of Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing Company, a 109-year-old company, has come out with attractive discounts for the festival season with assured discount of 10 per cent on home storage, as well as 15 per cent discount on Home furniture. Any purchase bill from Godrej exceeding Rs 50,000 will entitle the customer to 20 per cent discount in home furniture products.

Baking up a storm

Describe delicious. How about Nik’s bakery? Makes no sense? Well, think large moist muffins sprinkled with blueberries, swirls of chocolate ‘eddying’ around in crusty tartlets and cheesecakes with splashes of bright toppings. All this at the new kid in town—Nik Baker’s European Bakery in Sector 9D—run by 26 year old Nikhil alias Nik. Don’t be taken back by his ‘pocket-sized’ age, for if the cakes and bakes, breads and pies on offer are anything to go by, Nik is up to his ears in thick creamy experience! A sight for sore eyes: Nik wants to create a niche for quality cakes and bakes. — Photo by Pradeep Tewari

BINDING FAITH He visits the mosque religiously. Every year in the holy month of Ramzan, engineer Pradeep Nanda and his son Prateek leave behind their daily chores and mundane issues to cross the borders of caste and creed to reach the mosque in Sector 20 at the time of “ Iftar ” or breaking the fast. Faithful to secularism and impartiality, they sit down on the mats along with so many Muslim brethrens offering “ Magrib ki namaaz ” before savouring the taste of religion in the form of sliced apples, bananas, rice and even biscuits. Fasting in piety: Prayers before breaking the fast at Ramzan. — Photo by Parvesh Chauhan

DOSTI SADA
Sada-e-aman is the story of hope, of nurturing friendship and of building bridges across uncertainties and fears between peoples and nations.

Puran Singh’s Dhaba For a change, it doesn’t matter at all that you are a complete failure when it comes to writing on food. For a change, an assignment can be interesting, no, make that tasty. As the man stationed outside the famous Puran Singh da Dhaba bang on the GT Road in Ambala Cantonment whistles and exhorts you to treat yourself to some of the best non-vegetarian you’ve had in your 26 years of existence, it’s hard not to listen to the proverbial call of the stomach juices. Puran Singh’s dhaba has been giving its patrons many a non-veg treat to remember. — Photo by Parvesh Chauhan

Fusion Yoga
The age-old Indian art of yoga, compounded with the virtues of science, is now helping people not just in reducing weight, but also in achieving economic development and spiritual evolution, says Saurabh Malik

Swami Dharmanishtananda blends yoga with science

Different strokes
Playing cricket as a child to talking cricket in the ‘Gully’ with Mandira Bedi, is our very own city-boy Gunjan Utreja. All of 24, he is already a master of ceremonies and is all set to bowl the audience over with his sense of humour on Gully Cricket on SET MAX.

Continental delight If you think the city is starved of continental delicacies, you just have not been eating around. For, more and more restaurants across the city are now tickling the taste buds of the residents with an array of continental dishes. The whiff is unmistakable. As you cross the joints offering continental delights, the aroma of grilled steaks of cottage cheese mingle with the tang of garlic to lure you indoors. It blends with a hint of creamy tomato sauce to give you continental flavour right here in Chandigarh. Continental’s the way to whet a gourmet’s appetite. — Photo by Vinay Malik

BON APPETIT
Bean There, Done That!
A sprinter from New Orleans, Lives entirely on fresh greens. He moves with great speed And stays in the lead, Because he’s stuffed with runner-beans!

• Health tip of the day