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Luxe Loot
Can’t find a Gucci or Goyard?
Fret not. City stores may not stock up on these, but there are several stylish options for the flamboyant woman traveller
Luxury seems to have found a new pin code — the hearts of ladies in town. Never mind the extra bucks that have to be shelled out. For, all this league of super-spending women wants is to inject some style in whatever they do. Be it holidaying at luxe resorts or flying to exotic locales, city women are vouching for everything
luxe. Travel too, is getting wrapped in trendy trimmings, thanks to these upscale women’s penchant for high-end, classy and chic luggage!
 Filmmaker with focus
Meghna on meaningful cinema & being a Gulzar
She is in every sense
her father’s daughter - sensitive, insightful and non-conformist. But
Meghna Gulzar is quite her own person too — clear-headed and focused.
So, it doesn’t come as a surprise when the daughter of celebrated
poet-filmmaker, Meghna speaks of associating herself with meaningful
cinema. In town for the shooting of Sanjay Gupta’s film Dus Kahaniyan
directed by Meghna, she shares notes on her career and being a ‘Gulzar’.
Pals with papa
Dads today are not like Hitler. Just like friends, they share more than their experiences through anecdotes and stories
In high spirits after clearing his business management entrance exams, Rajiv Sharma had his first swing of beer with him. Huddled together on a comfy sofa in a city restaurant with intoxicating music pouring out of the overhead speakers at a deafening pitch, they had watched the bubble of delight burst at the brim before raising a toast to his success.
Write to Renee
I’m a 30-year-old single woman with a very good career situation and not really looking for marriage. Just a few months ago when I was in Pune for an official party, I met this very interesting man and cultivated him. He seemed smart, intelligent and a complete charmer. I dated him for a few days in Pune and then came back. We kept up a regular communication, besides meeting once again in Delhi. I shared many confidential things with him. Recently, I have heard that he has been boasting of his conquest of me. I was shattered. I called him up and exchanged hot words. Advise.
 First Day First Show
Jhoom...
Song-&-dance menagerie
They say Preity Zinta is a chatterbox. And when she and Abhishek Bachchan work together in a film, there is no stopping them on the sets. Director Shaad Ali Sehgal might have been witness to one such session. So, the next best thing he does is cast them together and create Jhoom Barabar
Jhoom. He envisions an ambience in which two strangers, Rikki Thukral, a Bathinda-born NRI, and Alvira Khan from Lahore (settled in the UK), who are waiting for their “fiancés”, Anaida (Lara Dutta) and Steve (Bobby Deol), at London’s Waterloo Station, are forced to share a coffee table in a restaurant and talk non-stop about their maiden encounters with their respective fiancés. They end up falling in love with each other.
Barbie wronged
Poor versions of Barbie dolls in strikingly bright apparels and dyed blonde tresses have infiltrated city streets, literally, says
Saurabh Malik
Razor-sharp peroxide blonde tresses targeting the vulnerable shoulders; brighter than the white-heat apparels with loads of pink, yellow and orange; pale lippers complimenting metallic nail-polishes; and beige platform boots taking the wearer all the way to style — the Barbie-gone-wrong look is “oh-so-hot” in the summers of 2007.
Matka chowk
Our man Fridays
A lady in Chandigarh once told me that the only reason for living in India is that she has her parents there and her servants. She, however, forgot another very important element in the equation – the repairman - or rather, as in the US he is called a ‘handyman,’ someone who fixes the leaky faucet, the throbbing garage light and the unyielding gate-latch. Many of the ladies, I know in the city would be simply inconsolable and would just not be able to manage if we took the Ramsamirs and the Dil Bahadurs out of their lives.
 Haywire
Give the kiddies a break
If the discerning Indian backpacker is busy glamping this season, can the brat pack be far behind?
With summer camps going glam, sending trend spotters into spasms of linguistic overdrive to coin the new term, vacation time has got better, and also busier, than ever before for adults. Ditto for tiny tots.
Health Peg
Sugar hastens wrinkles
The cake baking in the oven may have a gorgeous golden crust, but inside each delicious crumb is a time bomb of ageing. Sweet treats till now might have been the culprit behind weight gain, but now a dermatologist has revealed that they can cause wrinkles.
This rice prevents cholera
Japanese scientists have developed a strain of rice that contains an edible vaccine for cholera. Researchers believe that the vaccine may be used for large-scale and cost-efficient immunisation programmes. Bound within the rice, the cholera vaccine can be stored at room temperature over long periods and is immune to digestion, say researchers. The researchers feel that in future, rice vaccines may provide protection against a wide range of infectious diseases.
Health TIP OF THE DAY
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