CHANDIGARH INDEX


Hey baby, you rock!
 Purva Grover
WE spoke to women of all kind — Beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful. Slim, slimmer, slimmest. Plump, cute. Sappy, overly romantic, syrupy. Cleanliness fanatic homemakers, obsessive workaholics. Fashionholics, fashion conscious. Healthy, diet freaks. Confident, poised, shaky. Fighters, survivors, winners. And decided to compile a list of all the injustice that they face.

Hello Brother
He is aggressive, yet endearing, rugged yet soft... that’s Arbaaz Khan, uncut 
 Anandita Gupta
WE last ‘encountered’ him in Shootout at Lokhandwala, as the serious policewala, loosing his life in an encounter. Not the Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya ishtyle angry, young hero, who kills 20 gundas in a go, but of course, the man who’s heroic, yet human. The actor has mellowed down, we guessed, for the charater he potrayed (for a change!) was more white, than his previous greys and blacks.And how right were we, except that the man in him has mellowed down as well. In town to be a part of Meena Bazaar’s Women’s Day celebrations, a rugged-looking Arbaaz Khan talked fondly about his wife Malaika, 5-year-old Arhaan and about being Sallu’s bhai. Here’s dishing out a scoop of the Daraar guy from our 5-minute encounter: Photo:Parvesh Chauhan

STEP OUT
Beware of bees!
Winged attackers and reptilian passers-by are hazards of outdoor adventure 
 Yana Banerjee-Bey
DOING an outdoor adventure sport often involves exposure to natural hazards such as insect stings and bites that are far more dangerous than the actual activity. Low-altitude rock climbing, trekking, hiking and camping are activities during which you might come across bees and snakes.

Banking on Archlights
His journey into films has been a memorable one
 S.D. Sharma
“A MAN is known by the company he keeps,” the old adage, applies to the filmy persona Hari Om Jalota, more so, because of his long association with the invincible singer Gurdas Maan. Despite being a senior officer in a bank, Jalota is better known and admired as a film actor. Credited with good roles in 15 Punjabi and 4 Hindi films, Jalota strikes an amicable balance between his passion for acting and the responsible profession of a bank manger.

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Cool Stuff

Yummy Mummies!
 They look like a million bucks, flaunt their babies-in-tow status & have  made mommydom fashionable. A date with the city’s young moms on Women’s Day
Anandita Gupta
THINK riding on a roller coaster. Non-stop and totally out of control, a hapless little bundle of nerves in your arms—crying and crooning 24x7, dizzying sleep deprivation, laundry piling up on the bed (thanks to spitting n’ shitting sessions), hormonal insanity, delivery’s incredible toll on the body, funny smells, and a room resembling a nappy-manufacturing unit. This was how the insane world of mommydom looked like a few years back. Thankfully, not any more, courtesy — new age yummy-mummies, who have turned the concept of messy motherhood upside down.  Photo by Pradeeip Tweari

United We Stand
 Bold strokes remain their purgatory flight into creative nirvana
 Parbina Rashid
WE all are familiar with We– the all women group of artists. After all, they are celebrating their fifth year as a group in the same manner as they always did — by putting up their annual show to coincide with the International Women’s Day celebrations. This time, the nine members have brought their work to exhibit at Government Museum and Art Gallery-10.

Photo by Manoj Mahajan

Beauty Studio
Condition it right!
 Pammy Kaul
THE array of hair products available today is enough to make your head spin. Very few of us know what makes your shampoo and conditioners work for you. There is more to them than consistency, colour and perfume. While shampoos are designed to remove dirt, excess oil and dead skin from the hair and scalp conditioners are made to protect hair from heat, styling damage, moisturise, reduce static and impart shine. Also, it reduces friction between your hair and comb and saves hair from tangling. If your conditioner is left on your hair for longer time it has a better chance of attaching itself to the cuticle. Deep conditioning with heat is extremely effective as it lifts the cuticles and helps the product to coat. Rinsing hair well after deep conditioning is extremely important. Using a leave-in conditioner is always the best bet.

A Beautiful You
A TOKEN of love from a mom-in-law to her daughter-in-law is how Salochna Ahuja describes the opening of another branch of her 28-year-old salon Salochna’s Beauty World. A gift on Women’s Day from her to her daughter-in-law, Sonia Ahuja, this family salon in Sector 18 was inaugurated on Friday. Latest scissors techniques like slicing, notching, tapering, decorative nail art and hair spa are some of the services in store. Taking forward her cause of imparting training in the beauty business to hearing and speech impaired girls, this new venture too will provide professional training to such girls at its specilised beauty academy. Salochna had set up the salon way back in 1979 to support her daughter. — TNS