Troubleshooting 

Saurabh Malik In India, 10% of over 37 million Internet users are active in social networking, little realising they could be logging on to trouble... She logged on to trouble by double clicking Orkut. New to social networking, a young teacher with a leading city school, Radhika Singh (name changed), simply floated her picture and a flamboyant profile on the site without realising she was exposing herself to more than just virtual bonding. Must-do

Scaling new heights
S. D. Sharma
Only a few days ago our city boy, Somnath Ray, a student of Columbia University, New York, woke up to find himself making headlines in newsmagazines. Not quite unexpected though, considering that his design project ‘Para-City’ had won him the first position in the 2007 eVolo International Skyscraper Design Competition.“It was indeed a prestigious contest with 295 entries received from 57 countries,” says Ray while throwing light on the salient features of the project that heralded in a new perspective in the history of American architectural concepts.

No longer Greek & Latin 
Parbina Rashid
I was neither a child, nor an adult, when I had to learn to speak the language that would eventually become my second language — Hindi. And this exercise was not without making my share of mistakes and attracting peels of laughter from my Hindi-speaking friends. Going by the comments I received even years later, I had written myself off as one of those who simply do not have the aptitude to learn a new language. I found comfort in my own logic, without actually believing it to be a scientific one.

Health peg
When noise kills...
A report from the World Health Organisation has revealed that thousands of Britons are killed due to excessive noise from modern urban life. The specialised agency of the UN has warned that unruly neighbours, the incessant roar of traffic, and booming music from pubs and clubs trigger a number of health problems, including heightened blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes.

youth speak
stay happy
Shilpy
“Where there is a will, there is a way, but sorrows are never away.” Its human nature for more that never makes him satisfied. Most of the people think that sorrows are far from their lives. They let the unhappy events takeover their mind and body and end up ignoring the happy events too. Happiness is just a state of mind, which can be achieved whenever one wants.

New releases

Three bachelors & a baby Director: Sajid Khan Starring: Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Vidya Balan After making his directional debut with one of the horror stories from Darna Zaroori Hai, funny man, TV anchor and Farah Khan’s brother Sajid Khan is now back with his Rs 40 crore light-hearted comedy. The film is about three carefree bachelors whose lives turn topsy-turvy after a baby girls lands up at their doorstep.

Mommie-mates

Anandita Gupta Gen-Y mommies rediscover re-winding by moving around in the mommy-circuit Long night duties, endless diapers, countless visits to the pediatrician’s clinic, teething tantrums, unreasonable demands on time and energy, guaranteed anxiety and heartache — welcome to planet ‘motherhood’. A world for the moms, of the moms and by the moms.                Photo by Malkiat Singh

SIDELANES 
Puff pastries & presidents
Joyshri Lobo
Chatra and Ram Piyari were the proverbial odd couple. He was dark and six something. She was short and four nothing. Both were Purbaiyas from Uttar Pradesh. She kept the home fire burning and was occasionally roughed up by “voh.”  But the customary drubbing came with the marital package, as it does even today. As was the custom, she never spoke Chatra’s name in case of causing disrespect and injuring his very superior male pride.

GREEN REVOLUTION

Purva Grover Buy your veggies & have them, too. Make grocery shopping with your child a fun and interactive learning experience and watch them ask for palak & ghia! The house is in a state of furore each time palak is cooked for dinner. A five-year-old still calls a cauliflower a cabbage. A budding artist is discovering shapes to create an abstract art. A two-year-old is struggling with counting.  Tips to shop

Photo by Vinay Malik

•  E-books with the musty book smell

• Starlet’s rehab stint

Bigger, Brighter, Costlier
Parbina Rashid
The canvas is getting bigger and brighter, and strokes are getting definitely surer. Good news for city’s art lovers who are on the look out for quality work. For, looking at the emerging trend in the art scene, as reflected in this particular exhibition at the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Sector 10, our artists are ripe for the world. But then again, everything in life comes for a price. And the price for good art is escalating.

• Dream World

• Spiritual Journey

• Dancing Diva

• Space & Form

• Shiva Shakti

Divine show
Sotheby’s Sep 21 auction focuses on Buddhist art
The Arts of the Buddha will be the special theme for Sotheby’s sale in September that will present works of the major Far-Eastern cultures in India, China and Cambodia. The September 21 auction will include physical representations of the divine through different media like paintings, drawings and sculptures.

Stone-age
One hundred and eighty seven and still growing! Well, we are counting the number of sculptures erected in the grounds of Kalagram during the past couple of years. Now called the Sculpture Park, it has been the platform for young and old sculptors from all over the country to showcase their talent.Here is another one coming up. A 15-day-camp by four artists will begin on August 1.