Cookers
Meet city’s kitchen-savvy men, who love to cook, and better still, cook for themselves!
Parbina Rashid
FLIP through the pages of Bachelor’s Cook Book, and it reinforces our belief how lost a man is in the kitchen. The recipes are meant for a child that involve no more than three steps — pick up an egg, break it on a heated pan and serve hot. Well, what else do you expect from the species that seldom ventures into the kitchen? But no, there’s an off-beat genus in the same species that isn’t totally lost when it comes to differentiating cardamom from cinnamon or tamarind from turmeric.

• Royal challenge

• Liquor guy

• Art of cooking

• Art of cooking

Abc for UT
Saurabh Malik
“English still’s a hundicap for the powers that be in Chandigarh,” affirms Sunidhi publicly before passing on a bowl of noodles. “They really need to do something about it.” “They? I think you need to do something about it,” Priyanka cuts in. “Dear, it’s handicap not hundicap. You sound so raw, they way you assert it. It’s just like rehri-market vendors painting with black colour ‘tamato soup Rs 5’ on their kiosk walls.”  Photo by Pradeep Tewari

For the girl’s sake
A new blog launched to break the silence on the unfairness 
towards the fair sex
Saurabh Malik
THE online, wired generation is logging on to more than just pleasure on the Internet. Opening a new file on the protection of the girl child on the International Women’s Day, it has launched a blog to generate opinion against deadly issues like female foeticide. Ask the members of the Rajdulari Foundation, the organisation behind the blog, and they say it’s in all fairness to the fair sex.

Making Lives Saral
Parbina Rashid
Immaculate in their gray and white uniform, they exuberate confidence as they march into the principal’s office. The talk revolves around their own ambition (they all want to be doctors) but they have another important issue to discuss today – how to prepare their siblings and neighbourhood kids, who are soon going to join the junior classes at Saral Ehsas, the special wing of KB DAV Senior Secondary School-7, meant for underprivileged children of the Bapu Dham colony.

First Day First Show
It’s different
Black and White
watchable
Rajiv Kaplish
SUBHASH Ghai believes in the innate goodness of human beings. His belief leads him to explore the psyche of a potential suicide bomber who, though a ruthless terrorist, is nevertheless, not beyond redemption. His parents having been killed in the Gujarat riots, his world is now torn between good and bad, right and wrong and evil and divine.

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Little Interview
Chak De Roshni!
Parbina Rashid
Variety, for Roshni Chopra, is not just the spice of life, but life itself. So, while she was riding high on popularity as Pia of Kasam Se, came along Jhoom India, that gave her own fan club . The latest in her kitty is Chak De Bachche, a talent hunt for kids. And Roshni is ecstatic to co-host the show, for the show is different. Well, to see that, we ‘ll have to wait till 9X brings it on air. Till then we learn a little about it from her.

Kya Family Hai
The telly screen will now sizzle with dadi’s jhatkas, mummy’s thumkas, papa’s moves & kiddies’ boogie! 
Anandita Gupta
ATTENTION dadi-dada, mummy-papa and the forever-hyper bachcha brigade! If you’re in the middle of a TV watching session then stop fidgeting with that remote, stop spilling biryani on the bedsheet and stop quarrelling over soaps and cricket matches. Instead, get your act together to groove on Friday-Saturday evenings. For, Airtel Rock ‘N’ Roll Family is about to hit your soapboxes soon.

Shilpa’s going places
BOLLYWOOD diva Shilpa Shetty shared ramp space with filmmaker Sofia Coppola, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and American burlesque star Dita Von Teese in Paris as she represented Louis Vuitton for a show put up by American designer Mark Jacobs.

Cool Kitty
Oh la la… our lovely ladies love to chat endlessly and that’s no news. So what else could be a befitting Women’s Day celebration than an opportunity to talk non-stop? And so it was a breezy chat-session called ‘meet & greet session’ was organised by BIG 92.7 FM on Women’s Day. Called the Big City Kitty, the party had our fabulous femmes chatting up their favourite RJ’s, performing and bagging some interesting prizes like the best talented female, best dressed female and beautiful hair! RJs of BIG 92.7 FM played games like Talent Hunt and Tambola with the women of city beautiful. Surely a slice of some life banao experience! —TNS

Quilt & more
You may have already aired your quilts and put them aside for the next year. But if you want the next year winter to be colourful then there is an opportunity to own an American country patch-work quilts. Kamal Grewal, maker of such quilts are offering a wide range of patchwork quiltsking, queen and twin sizes. Her one-day exhibition on Monday also offers a select number of table and bath linens.The price starts from Rs 2,700 and goes up to Rs 10,000. On at house no: 87, Sec 8 , Ph: 9872808490 —TNS

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