Dressed to HEAL
Research finds that a doctor’s attire doesn’t matter to a patient but
not in the city. Here, doctors and patients both think it does...
Ask anyone to describe a doctor and the most likely answer would be —
the man in a white coat with the trademark stethoscope hanging carelessly
from his neck. That’s where the imagination stops, unless you were fed
on Doogie Houser MD during your growing up days, which taught us to
look beneath the white coat and see doctors as human beings. For the rest
of us, he is the man who will always be there to absorb our miseries and
sends us back home brand new. We are too busy to notice what he wears or
what he likes or dislikes. Is it really so? Looks like.
Small &
beautiful
Smriti Sharma
The Bakshis have proved that small space is no deterrent to an
award-winning garden
Theirs is perhaps the most easy to locate house in the sector. Mention a
sprawling lawn with neatly carved flowerbeds and unique garden accessories
in the corners and we know the Bakshis in Sector 21 are being referred to.
Whoever thought that gardening requires huge space was proved wrong by a
dedicated Navijit whose garden in the small house category is on a winning
spree in the Rose Festival over the past few years, barring last year when
she didn’t participate.
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BIG PICTURE |
RISING FROM THE ASHES: This shot of Bhuj from an IAF aircraft is in heartening contrast to the destruction
caused by the devastating earthquake of January 2001. — Photo by Vinay Malik |
New
Releases
Will Hattrick do
the trick?
Director: Milan
Luthria
Cast: Nana Patekar, Paresh Rawal, Danny Denzongpa,
Kunal Kapoor, and Rimmi Sen
After comic flick Khosla Ka Ghosla, it’s time for
a magical story of triumph and Hattrick is the one that is all out
to woo the viewers with its subject. Hattrick is a crazy tale
inspired by the madness of cricket. The film deals with five protagonists
across different slices of life, each of them needs to pull out a magic
trick from the hat, something that they have never done before.
Youth
speak
Those extra 10
minutes
Board exams have started and both students and their
parents are gripped by the exam fever. The stakes are high and so are the
expectations. Stress as well as anxiety is growing up fast among students
as board exams progress. So, what could be a better relief booster for
them than extra 10 minutes?
Beauty on
her fingertips
Give her a free hand and she leaves you with nails that
can pin down hearts in a jiffy!
Burgundy streaks camouflaged behind razor-sharp tresses
targeting the fragile shoulders oppose the blooming smile that compliments
tiny white flowers blossoming on her enameled nails. For a moment, you
think she is a pop star or a ramp model with exquisiteness on her
manicured fingertips.
Sunny days
are here again
This one is supposed to be the perfect weekend. What is
more, even the weather gods have promised to hold onto their overflowing
streams and give the city some cloudless days to frolic in (or so the
forecasters say!) Why the build-up to spring, one may ask? Simple, Vanity Fair 2007 at Whispering Willows, Zirakpur
is here and this annual mela is the harbinger of all things summer stands
for!
Crafty
Paradise
It’s a spread of a different kind. One doesn’t mind
moving through the slush-filled patches left after Tuesday’s heavy
downpour in the open ground of Bal Bhavan, looking for the crafts that
have found their way to the city. Artisans, craftsmen from all over the country are
exhibiting knick-knacks here under one roof. The wooden furniture along
with carefully crafted wooden artefacts, garden furniture from Saharanpur
lay open outside the main exhibiting area.
FILM & FASHION
Shilpa
Shetty ‘heels’ before the Queen!
Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty may have sashayed
triumphantly out of the Celebrity Big Brother house, but she found it
difficult to retain her balance in high heels in front of the Queen.
Art beyond
the years
The annual exhibition of
the Government College of Art is an event that every art lover of the city
looks forward to. And not without reason — this is one platform where
potential buyers meet potential artists, with old and established ones
hovering around to give you important tips on art and artists.
A
Partition of land, music
An Indian filmmaker traces the unusual transition
It is one of those projects that take you back in time, to
days when musical traditions were also partitioned along with the
partition of lands. Between Pakistan and India, several cultural influences
were exchanged; music was one of them. However, not all such influences
were allowed to survive in the shape they were exchanged. Many ragas were
actually rechristened when they “crossed over” to Pakistan, as if
music, like institutions, needed to be “nationalised”.
World’s
smallest museum…
... is located in central Arizona, USA. A roadside
attraction, it is just 134 square feet under a roof. It is divided into 10
glass enclosed display booths, five on each side of the tiny building. A
walkway down the middle through the length of the museum leaves only 80
square feet to display artifacts.
Indian
influence on French art
Showing at the Alliance Française de Chandigarh Sector
36, The Dream of an Inhabitant of Mogul is a special exhibition of
miniature paintings by Imam Bakhsh Lahori, illustrating the Fables of Jean
de la Fontaine, one of the most widely read French poets from the 17th
century, which are now housed in the Musée Jean de la Fontaine, Château-Thierry,
France.
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