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As the moment draws near for Abhi Alvida Kehna to the year, it’s time to replay Album-2006 for moments that brought rang and Dhoom too. Though a year of less adventure in matters of palate and pręt, and more venture into beauty and brands; a year of baby steps rather than a giant leap towards a more vibrant socialscape, it nonetheless saw the tricity keep up its march towards becoming Destination Next, with the spirit of (what else?) Lage Raho.....
Chetna Keer Banerjee presents some winning and not-so-winning performances, remixed, of course.
The
Net Profit
Parbina
Rashid catches up with an intercontinental couple who met on the
net and are now partners for life and for the moment on the India trail
Mario Moreira da Silva Lamaras from Portugal fell flat for a ‘sand dune’ in Nepal. Wait, before you reach out for that copy of atlas to check out if there have been some drastic changes in Nepal’s topography, let us assure you that this ‘sand dune’ is not a ordinary dessert feature. It stands for Shiro Dutt (now Shiro Moktan) who hurriedly coined the name with her initials to get into a chat session on the Internet.
Corporate
Jatti
Anuradha Shukla
Go a step beyond your limits and success is all yours, is the moto apni corporate
Kudhi, Navpreet Mann, lives by. And success has for sure been her mate all along, be it at the Deemed University Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala or entering the revered Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Now this youngest investment banker of the Merges and Acquisitions Advisory of HSBC, London, U. K says having penetrated the traditionally white male dominated sector makes her feel she has made it though there are deals to seal before she rests.
SUCCESS STORY: Navpreet Mann has broken into the white male bastion in the
corporate world. — Photo by Manoj Mahajan |
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Budding artist
Smriti Sharma
What does one expect a nine-year-old to do in his leisure time? Chances are that most kids will be playing around with their latest gizmos or the bay-blades (the latest fad but not Arshdeep Singh, who is mostly seen with his pencils and scrapbook. A student of class IV at the K.B. DAV School, Arshdeep started drawing and making portraits when he was barely four years old.
At the time, when others just start getting aware of their
surroundings, he knew a lot more. “As a four-year-old, he just
wanted to play with colours,” says Jaswinder Singh, his father.
PAINTING THE TOWN RED: Arshdeep Singh.
— Photo by Manoj Mahajan
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Dum Pukht Ke Nazrane
For the New Year celebrations Khyber has come out with a food festival.
Harvinder Khetal savours some delicacies
Khyber, Sector 35, has once again brought the cuisine of the Nawabs of Avadh for the city foodies longing to savour the dishes that exude a unique earth flavour as they are cooked and served in earthen pots. And the secret of the chef is quite simple. As you sample the yummy ravishers, you realise that the seal made of dough to cover the earthenware has a dual purpose.
It not only keeps the stuff warm, but also helps retain the aroma
and flavours of the highly aromatic spices that make the dish
special.
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pleasure: Exotic Avadhi dishes cooked in earthen pots on display at food festival in Khyber, Sector 35 |
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BON APPETIT
Soup splendour
A bowlful of steaming hot soup is a
perfect way to chase away the winter chill. Besides, given the option, I would rather a hot soup was inside me than poor ME in a HOT SOUP! Some thick and hearty soups can almost be a meal in themselves, especially those that have diced vegetables, cooked chicken, noodles etc. added to them.
After attending an endless string of wedding-dinners, a soup and
boiled vegetable meal is my saviour. I agree that powder-sachets of
soup get prepared at the speed of greased lightening but the best
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SIDELANES
The rising SON
Joyshri Lobo
Yesterday Milkha Singh, the Flying Sikh, came for dinner. He has a car, dresses tastefully, very well mannered and can make one laugh!” A complete and concise picture of a man amongst men.’
This is a quote from an 18 year olds diary, dating back 47 years. The place? Government College for Men, Ludhiana. My father, Principal K.N. Dutt, had trouble with a few of the teenagers from wealthy families.
They would steal the green baize from the pool table, wreck a few
chairs in the hostel and intimidate the reticent students.
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Chiranjeev Milkha Singh
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Milkha Singh
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WORD PLAY
Whisky is risky
Harmeet Kaur
For those whose favourite tipple was missing in Santa’s stockings, here is a dose of ` Uisge
beatha’ [water of life] for New Years. It has widely been accepted that whisky has been distilled in Scotland for hundreds of years, the origin being attributed to Irish monks and even the Crusaders who learnt distillation techniques from the Arabs [ delicious irony]. It may well have evolved simply as a means of utilizing barley which would otherwise have been ruined after a wet harvest.!!!
COOL STUFF
Music and masti
Shoppers seeking the perfect gift for Christmas and New Year can look no further than Mitashi This year, Mitashi Edutainment ltd., introduces an array of sleek, contemporary and trendy new MP4 player, ‘the MPL 1003’ just in time for the upcoming gift-giving occasions. Mitashi’s latest innovation, a chic MPL 1003 player, is designed to fit active, “on-the-go” lifestyles.
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FILM & FASHION
Dreamgirl Beyonce
Bootylicious singer Beyonce Knowles has revealed she turns into a make-believe person to help her perform.
The star admitted she has created an alter ego called Sasha who is fearless and seductive onstage.
“I developed my stage persona to protect myself so when I go home I don’t think about what I do. Sasha isn’t me. I wouldn’t like her if I met her offstage. She’s too aggressive, too strong, too sassy, too sexy.
I’m not her in real life. I’m not
flirtatious and super-confident,” she was quoted by the Mirror, as
saying. Beyonce also confessed
she has suffered depression and was so down when her ex-Destiny’s
Child bandmates LeToya Luckett and LaTivia Roberson quit that she
spent days in her bedroom refusing to
eat.
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