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Not just birthdays
Yikes! The friendly, neighbourhood birthday party just changed into a show-off match
Homemade
chole-bhature, a nice round cake, glassfuls of rasna and
refrigerator chilled dahi-bhalle. A thermocol cutout of Mickey and
Minnie, streamers, balloons and a game of passing the parcel is
the closest I remember how my birthdays were celebrated. Mom would
just inform the aunty in the neighbourhood and a bunch of friends
would land in my drawing room at sharp four in the evening.
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Treasure
Trove
Stamp of passion
He swears by his stamps and claims they are his most prized possession. Meet Vivek Gohil who possesses 18,000
unique stamps. Vivek
Gohil is more than a 30-year-old city bachelor with a great
smile. He is also extremely dedicated and passionate about stamp
collecting. For Vivek, a financial analyst, this is no ordinary
hobby.It is his passion, a huge part of his life. He boasts a
collection of 18,000 unique, colourful, modern, and antique stamps
from 170 different countries, which he has accumulated since the
age of 12.
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Vivek Gohil
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Youthspeak
Shun
superstition
Pankhuri Sood
Since
time immemorial, man has placed his conviction in superstitions. This belief has
gripped us that many a time we follow them unconsciously.
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VISUAL TREAT: The amaltas- lined road makes the perfect backdrop for a pretty picture on a sultry
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New releases
Sizzling with style & attitude
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Bollywood flick goes abroad
Ashish Balram Nagpal’s
film Kindle, starring – Sushant Singh and Dipanita Sharma, has been nominated for the Indian Short Film Award at the Bollywood and beyond (Indian Film Festival) in Stuttgart Germany.Ashish
Balram Nagpal’s film it has been directed by Nitin Shingal. The director zooms
in on the story of a couple torn between joys of parenthood at the birth of
their child and the grief of innumerable questions within their unfathomable
subconscious mind.
For the wild child in you
Sensuous and sinous, fiery animal prints continue to roar aloud in the city’s fashion jungle. Sling on one of these tempting
eye-catchers and set the town on fire!
Ever
wondered what gives your ego an instant boost? Luxe couture, lazy
samplings at the vineyard, cruising or collecting cult watches?
Well, each of these may give you a high but there’s no bigger ego
trip than being dressed up like a lion. Or a leopard, tiger or snake
if you so please. For, the desire to conquer is the closest man
comes to after immortality.
Photo by Pardeep
Tewari
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Summer fiesta
Fashionistas
with a fetish for the traditional can now rejoice. For, here’s your chance to date all those embroideries that have dazzled you for long — Lucknawi work, cut work, shadow work, muri work and tapchi work. Walk into this exhibition at Aroma organised by Nari SEWA, from Lucknow and get ready to pamper your senses with the whiff of summer.
Photo by Parvesh
Chauhan
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THE EMBRACE: This life-size silicon and fibreglass artwork by artist Patricia Piccinini is on display at Art 38 in Basel.
— Reuters
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Jacko has the most loyal fans
Former King of Pop Michael Jackson has topped a poll of artists whose fans will purchase all the new albums they release. PopScores, a monthly quantitative measurement of the emotional connection between artists and consumers, shows that 82 per cent of Jackson’s fans are ready to buy the new material he releases.
— ANI
SIDELANES
I’m proud of you, my son
Joyshri Lobo
The
ninety-six kg load seemed far too heavy but that is how much the Maharaja allowed its students flying abroad, and that is what he insisted on taking. Every faded shirt, photograph, stubby pencil, crayon, torn shoe, ripped sock, CD and Potter memorabilia had to go in those three, red and black suitcases.
Bundle of talent
A bright student, theatre artist, TV actor and a propagator of theatre among children, Manish Gandhi does it all with ease
Coming
events cast their shadows before seems to be true of the myriad minded
Manish Gandhi, a brilliant student and a theatre artist par
excellence.
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Rediscovering Sufism
A new stream of thought discovers interesting links between Sufi mysticism and Sahaj Yoga
Though
the litterateurs are regarded as omniscient persons, the essence of
this couplet by Dr Naresh, acclaimed as the prolific literary genius
of the region, reflects the inquisitive poet’s yearning to know
everything transcending the intellectual concept.
“Honth seekhenge kab zubaan chupp ki, bandh kab hoga bolna maula/Haq shanasi ki ibtida maula , kaun hun mein mujhe btaa
maula”
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Dr Naresh
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Hockey then & now...
’An
author’s real business is to write books but his real merit lies in the magnitude of the intuitive wisdom, thematic expertise and rationalism employed to illustrate his viewpoint through his writings,’ said Hazlitt. And proving it right is the acclaimed sports journalist and Punjabi writer Sukhwinder Singh Manauli. The ace athlete has emerged as an authority on the chosen subject with his very maiden offering Vishav Hockey De Heere (Gems of World Hockey).
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Sukhwinder Singh Manauli
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