Brig Bewli’s collected 400 species in 13 yrs flat!
Vishal Gulati
He loves thorny beauties. His passion to collect rare and exotic cacti makes him a “botanist”. Though he is a mechanical engineer by profession, his knowledge about plants, especially cacti, is noteworthy. Brig C.S. Bewli’s tryst with thorns is not too old. It was in 1994 when he first purchased Gasteria, a cactus species.

Imagine this! An entertainment channel that promises to bring happiness to your living room Purva Grover We had more than an hour to imagine what this new channel would be all about as we waited last Wednesday morning for the big launch of NDTV’s Hindi general entertainment channel, NDTV Imagine. Stars at the channel’s launch party in Mumbai.

Laughing all the way Parbina Rashid It’s always refreshing to see students come up with fresh ideas and implement them on screen. More so, if you happen to watch a comedy like Filmi Thug on a four feet by six feet screen along with comedy king Aurangzeb Eshai and Jaspal Bhatti at Bhatti’s state-of the-art institute Mad Arts-Mohali. The Pak comedy king on the serious business of comedy — Photo by Vicky Gharu

Little Interview Play for the party Rajiv Bhatia DJ Sanj, renowned disc jockey from UK, is performing in the city at Disc X-over. Just in case you are not so familiar with his name, he has hit numbers like Kehre pind di tu ni and Block party to his credit. Known for his remixes in Bollywood and Bhangra music, he has more than 10 CDs to his name. His upcoming albums are Apna Punjab and American Desi. — Photo by Manoj Mahajan

For the love of theatre
Bollywood is entertaining but often not thought provoking, it was this notion that got a few city people thinking and they formed a group called META — Meaningful, Entertaining, Thought-provoking and Artistic cinema. With the idea to give the city a chance to open their hearts to meaningful art, the open for all club screens movies across all genres.

Matka Chowk
Flavours of Festivity
Sreedhara Bhasin
Diwali is over, but the season is still festive. The city has still not slowed down from the shopping fever and dry fruit excesses. What I enjoy most are not the fancy diyas or the glittering crystal ware – but the unfettered joy that seems to pervade the air.

First Day First Show Cooking up a great tale Rajiv Kaplish No Reservations WATCHABLE GOODBYE grandeur, welcome simplicity. As the cacophony of squeaks and rattles over Saawariya and Om Shanti Om subsides, there is a gentle breeze in the form of No Reservations, which starts blowing in from nowhere and soothes your ruffled feelings.

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