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BRIDAL SHOWER
 It is time for the bridal shower and more. The January and February brides can step out in style with Bridal Asia showcasing a merry mix of beauty, attitude and value for money, says
Nirupama Dutt
Stars, not those that glitter on the screen but those that twinkle in the sky, decide the time most auspicious for the mating of man and woman. The most favourable time this winter has shifted from December to
January and springtime in February. This so, because Venus, the planet of love, seems to be too close to the sun various times through the last year of the month. Marriages are made in heaven and suffered on earth. But there are some around this affair, so essential to human existence in society, who only stand to profit. They, of course, belong to the wedding industry that is surely and steadily moving from the unorganised area to the organised.
STYLE STATEMENT: A model wearing Pallavi Jaikishan’s design and (Right) Bridal Asia CEO Divya Gurwara
 Pret goes PARTY
Christmas is still over a week away. New Year Eve even further. Yet garment houses across the city are heralding the party season with ‘Collection P’, says
Saurabh Malik
You blow kisses at one guest before breezing past the crowd. Storming into another group, you shake hands with other revelers before whizzing away from the gathering like a strong gust of wind. Right, for blowing into another bash with the agility of a party breezier!
Stoned
Gayatri Rajwade
For each of these artists, sculpting is ‘belief’ rising from deep within urging the stone to speak of their passion for their art. Each work is deeply illustrative of the four artists’ communication with their environment but not in a frivolous manner. These works are thoughtful and reflective of their convictions.
All this at the recently concluded sculpture workshop at Kalagram, Mani Majra which brought four sculptors (two from Delhi and one each from Orissa and Rajasthan) under a single roof to allow them to create anything they wished to.
 ORIENT EXPRESS
Gayatri Rajwade
Have you eaten yet?’ If not, take this catch-line seriously and sink your teeth into the Oriental Food Festival at Elevens at the Kaptain’s Retreat in Sector 35 where exotic mushrooms mingle freely with long-whiskered lobsters and snow peas rub shoulders with Shark-fin!
What makes this festival so pleasing to the palate is that the sauces (and there are some tongue-twisters here!), the recipes and the ingredients are not run-of-the-mill; some of them are the affable Chef’s own concoctions! So does he not need to know his oriental well we ask?
BON APPETIT
Pizza like a pro
One of our Bombay friends has an ancient old fossil for a ‘bai’ who is practically part of the family. On a hectic day when things were running late, my friend decided to send her out to pick up some paav-bhaaji so that dinner would not be delayed any further. The withered bai announced without preamble that she would do so, but would fetch ‘Peejjaa’ for herself since she didn’t much care for paav-bhaaji! When the standard daal-roti sounds boring, don’t we all gravitate towards the likes of pizzas and burgers, gorging ourselves on them, pretending that fast food is not so un-healthy after all? Are pizzas really so unhealthy? This is indeed a thorny issue, because I believe we can relegate them to a more honourable position with a little bit of effort (effort on YOUR part, that
is!). You could try making pizzas at home to ensure that they are more wholesome.
 Frisky whisky
Angad B. Sodhi
Cocktail
bars are sprouting up round the city. Even the more up-market restaurants are now sporting cocktail menus. But disappointingly, the number of people actually ordering something from these menus is very limited. Chandigarh has always been, and remains, a city of whiskey drinkers. Cocktails, for many, are a tad bit too adventurous a proposition. The only people who tend to order cocktails are the younger crowd, that too predominantly the younger women. For the men the staple drink remains a whiskey. And the only real variation they make in their drinking habits is a change from a Scotch to a Malt whiskey.
Kabab
odyssey
Simran Dhatt
The
true magnificence of the Moghul cuisine is best defined by the kababs. There are dozens of kinds of kababs to choose from-made from chicken, lamb or vegetables-grilled, steamed, skewered or fried. Crunchy and crispy they are a must have at any dinner, banquet or barbecue, especially, during the winters.
Prince of all dhabas
Anuradha Shukla
For
young students, raised as princes and princesses in their homes, food is a big concern when they shift to hostels. For the students of Panjab University good food for less money means eating out at the Prince Dhaba Sector 15. The dhaba actually named Prince Restaurant has been the lifeline of the campus for decades now.
STARRY AFTERNOON
Kyunkii
Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi came to Chandigarh. No small event this, when you look at the cult of the near-perfect bahus this serial has created all over the country! However, representation came in the form of newcomers Krishna Tulsi (Mouni Roy) and Lakshya (Pulkit Samraat) accompanied by funny-man, The Great Indian Laughter Challenge’s Pratap Fauzdar.
 Film & Fashion
Nicole not into drugs
Nicole Richie claims that she was on Vicodin during her recent DUI arrest, only to treat her menstruation cramps.
Richie was arrested on December 11, for driving on the wrong way down a California highway under the influence of pot and
Vicodin.
She says she isn’t addicted to pills, and is insisting to friends that she only “occasionally” takes Vicodin once a month at the start of her menstruation cycle, according to hollywoodrag. “She knows she made a mistake, but overall she’s in a better place, she has come a long way from her heroin days, “a friend said.
SIDELELANES
Memories of Mhow
By Joyshri Lobo
Mhow
is an acronym for Military Headquarters of War. It is a cantonment in Madhya Pradesh, created by the British during World War II. Native troops and Boga officers marched out from here to fight for “King and Country.” (The King was theirs, the country ours.)
Word Play
PAIRS THAT SNARE
PART-II
Like other languages, English too has many levels of usage
Standard usage
Standard usage refers to words, phrases, sentences and expressions accepted by the experts of the English language. Standard is the only level, which is totally acceptable in formal, informal usage, in business reports or personal letters.
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