What’s in a name?
Everything
Parbina Rashid
According to a new finding, people do not tend to take girls with feminine names seriously. But in a region where many names are unisex, do we have to worry?
Shakespeare has been proved wrong. Everything depends on a name. Especially a girl’s future!David
Figlio, a professor of economic at the University of Florida, has discovered that the ‘femininity’ of a girl’s name plays a huge role in determining her future. He reached this conclusion — girls named ‘Isabella’ or ‘Anna’ are not likely to study science, because their more feminine first names means that they are not encouraged to do so — after studying the names of 55,000 kids.
But for a community like ours in which unisex names like Amarjeets and
Puneets dominate, the findings just confirmed that our parents had been
wise in naming their girls. After all, in Figlio’s own words
—“People do not tend to take girls with feminine names very
seriously and they are often typecast.”
Figlio’s hypothesis is yet to meet the approval or criticism from various scientific quarters (even if it has, we know nothing about it), so we conduct our own research to find out who is right – Shakespeare or
Figlio? We randomly single out people with unisex names. |
Amit Raina
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Flicker of hope
Jagte Raho dwells on awareness and precaution to fight AIDS
The movie promises to push you out of slumber and make you wake up to the threat of drugs and AIDS. No wonder, the 58-minute flick on the menace of drug abuse and its perils is christened Jagte
Raho.
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Treasure Trove
Remnants from the past
Smriti Sharma
Some are born collectors, while others just happen to be. Amarjeet Singh Batth belongs to the latter. For him, the hobby of collecting fossils started about ten years back when he served in the Indian Army.
Posted at Leh, Amarjeet saw a foreigner with an assortment of fossils,
which he had discovered while trekking in the area. Though, he was
fascinated by the collection, nevertheless he was not inspired to look
out for ‘old chunks’ (as, he called them then) in the isolated
place.
Luckily, his next posting took him to the land of sand dunes, and he
decided to utilise the weekends by searching for fossils in that area.
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 Little Interview
City’s pride
A freelance journalist, Ashwini Choudhary began his career from here. He reviewed films and theatre while working with
Jansatta, Chandigarh. Ashwini made his debut with a widely acclaimed film
Laado; and this director’s debut venture was screened in a number of national and international film festivals. His second movie, Dhoop was the opening film at Kara Film Festival in Karachi in 2004.
 youth speak
Kudos to kangaroos
‘Awesome’, is the word that best describes the performance of the champions. The Aussie victory becomes all the more admirable, in the light of pressure the team was subjected to before the start of World Cup. They deserved the title, and it was their hard work, will power, and teamwork that led them victorious at World Cup 2007. Pointing and his men deserve wholesome praise for their spectacular victory. Australia has played 29 matches without a defeat in World Cup.
Amandeep Singh
New releases
Something for everyone this weekend
Life in a .... Metro
Director: Anurag Basu
Cast: Shilpa Shetty, Shiney Ahuja, Irfan Khan, Kay Kay Menon, Sharman Joshi, Konkana Sen Sharma, Kangna Ranaut
After the success of movies like Murder and Gangster, director Anurag Basu is back with his new venture Life in a ... Metro. Metro as the name suggests revolves around the life of people living in a metropolitan. Basu zooms in on the life of people in the city.
 Barbara disappoints
Barbara Streisand has left her British fans disappointed after declaring that the tickets for her concert would cost up to a whopping 500 pounds per person. The cheapest seats for Streisand’s gig at the O2 Arena will cost 100 pounds.
Kids are kings
Shopping for children is no longer child’s play, writes Purva Grover
Be it a birthday party, picnic or annual day; as kids we all craved for a new outfit each time. And, while we would be away to school; our mommy would fetch us a nice pair of jeans or a frock; and we would happily don it the next day. This was the situation till some time back, but not any more.
SIDELANES
Phees-phat & modernisation
Joyshri Lobo
Summer was great fun in our childhood. We spent the hottest months of our vacation with the grandparents at Jalandhar. All the aunts, uncles and cousins homed in, too, and every day was a celebration.
Kaleidoscope of summer fashion
Gleaming crystals cascading down glamorously glittering asymmetrical dresses, knick-knacks that are more than just fashion accessories, purses and handbags with loads of attitude and stalls offering a complete range of body-care products for a new look — that’s Summer Fashion Kaleidoscope for you.
Heady styles
Saurabh Malik
Bobs, fringes and choppy styles… that’s the long and short of summer hair-dos. Can’t decide on how to wear your hair? Listen to international hair-stylist Barney Martin, in town for an upgradation and staff-training workshop at Tress Lounge, Sector 8. Also L’Oreal’s brand ambassador, Martin says short cropped and big fringes are in like never before.
Our heroes
Parbina Rashid
The stage is all set. The walls are decorated with prints and paintings depicting war scenes, the shelf is full of rare books like History of Indian Mutiny by Charles Ball. Reminiscents from battles - soldier’s armour, battle-axes and swords and loads of medals worn by known and unknown
sepoys, complete the mood. And that’s not all. For these two
collectors of rare photos and antiques, Delhi-based Rajesh, aka Bobby
Kohli, and Mohali-based Navjot P.S. Randhawa do not let you remain a
detached onlooker. They serve you water and cold drinks in antique
glasses so that while learning the history of the First War of
Independence, you actually get transported to that period.
Soulful
melodies
Surinder Kaur lives on in people’s heart. A tribute...
The popular couplet from poet Allama Iqbal — Hazaaron saal Nargis apni benoori pe roti
hai, badi mushkil se hota hai chaman mein deedawer paida definitely describes Surinder Kaur, the nightingale of Punjab.
Bengal captured
The exhibition at Art Folio is an indicator of
the emerging trends in Bengal art
It’s Bengal art once again at Art Folio. It’s no news considering the fact that the gallery has been patronising artists from the cultural hub of the nation, but owner Vandya Bagodia has a point —“The state is full of promising artists; in fact art is there in the air.” And, looking at buyers booking paintings on the very first day of the show, it makes all the more sense. But, then who is complaining, for Bengal art never fails to impress.
 Rising Star
Stage is home
S. D. Sharma
Every time theatre lovers complimented Bhavna Atri for the portrayal of ‘Husan Bano’ during the staging of a historical play Singh Soorme in Houston, Texas, New Jersey, Mississippi, Livingston (California) and other venues in America, the upcoming actor found absolute contentment in her chosen profession. This was by no means a small achievement for
city-based actor Bhavna, coming from a modest family background but set to conquer to stage.
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