Neck-deep in fashion whirlpool
We go to do a sneak preview of Anukama and come out absolutely bedazzled!
Food, beauty and fashion — a lethal combo that sends the head spinning! This is what happened at Mountview on Friday afternoon, where a team from Northern India Institute of Fashion Technology introduced us journos over a sumptuous lunch to their budding designers and about 15 sexy sirens and handsome hunks who will take part at their annual show Anukama-08 on Saturday at Shivalik Public School, Mohali. And the fact that we did not know most of these models first thing from Adam or Eve, added to our confusion.

What’s your true colour?
Our colour choice says a lot about the image we are trying to portray & how we feel about ourselves
Of late our fashion idiom’s started looking brighter, happier. Winters were far from gloomy, with bursts of tecnicolour brilliance splashed all around. And summers seem giving ‘opulence’ an altogether new meaning. As fashionistas rejoice, romancing canary yellows, bubblegum pinks and ripe purples, it’s time to review, “How about the age-old colour-wisdom of grannies?

Style up with Sameer
AN investment banker with one of the big bracket firms on Wall Street in New York, Sameer Soni gave up his job and headed back to Mumbai to follow his dreams. A graduate in Economics, model, actor and now an anchor, he smiles as he recalls those days, “Academics was very important in my family and then my parents secretly hoped that someday I would give up on being an actor and concentrate on my career.”

Little Interview
Twinkling Star
She first came into limelight when she gave Debojit, the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge-2005 winner, a tough fight. She finished eighth but that did not deter her from taking part in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Ek Main Aur Ek Tu, a duet singing competition, and here, she and her singing partner Vishwas won the Judges Choice Award. But little did she realised that a whole new world was opening up — the world of acting.

Spice up
Beauty in thin air
FLYING has become such an inseparable part of our lives that we often overlook the effects it can have on our bodies. Of course, we are familiar with the jetlag phenomenon. Travelling at high speed and across time zones can play havoc on the body’s normal cycle. Apart from other effects, the skin also suffers. In fact, even during short flights, the airconditioned cabin and air pressure changes can cause dehydration of the body and the skin. Airport lounges, hotels and even the car you drive are all airconditioned.

Telly Tales
Forget tuning in, start flipping!
Catch Sarabhai v/s Sarabhai, Naya Office Office & Prithviraj Chauhan in comic format
THEY enjoy cult status on Indian television and are virtually part of your family. You have giggled, laughed and guffawed with them one evening after the other, sometimes even delaying dinner-time so as not to miss them (waiting for dinner betters self-control, you tell the unsuspecting kiddos as hubby dear sees through your designs but doesn’t dare to protest!).

Musically yours
Raj Ranjodh on his passion for music & medicine dreams
MUSIC runs in his genes, so not surprisingly his family happened to be his first school for training. Raj Ranjodh started learning classical music from his mom Gurmeet Kaur, a music teacher with a school in Amritsar, when he was just eight. As for tabla he learnt the niceties from his brother.

Annu ka Junoon
An overdose of energy, instant connect with the audience & masti unlimited… Annu Kapoor is back!
HE is the man who taught the nation to sing and dance with the no-frill good ol’ antakshri. And, such was the charm of Zee’s Antakshari and its host Annu Kapoor that it ruled over audiences’ hearts from 1994 to 2006, till it returned in its new avatar on Star One last year.

Glittering Tale
SETTING the city’s glamour quotient high is yet another jewellery outlet Charvi Diamonds-19 that opened on Friday. This exclusive diamond outlet gets its Hallmark certified diamonds from Mumbai and to help you deal with mind-boggling details of cut, carat, colour and clarity is owner and designer Ranjana.

Bald Step
Cameron Diaz shocked onlookers when she stepped out with a bald head in Santa Monica. However, fans can breathe a sigh of relief, for unlike Demi Moore and Natalie Portman, the perky actress has not shaved her head, but was only wearing a bald cap.

Health-Peg
Juicy news!
A new study by researchers at the Louisiana State University and Baylor College of Medicine has found that fruit juices don’t make kids overweight. During the review, the researchers evaluated 21 studies about a relationship between consumption of 100 per cent fruit juice by children and adolescents and weight.

Health Tip
GYM related injuries are not entirely preventable.A proper training regimen helps in injury prevention. Shoulder/elbow injuries happen when heavy weights ara lifted with a jerk or when there is an increase in the load. Knee/shin pain occurs when there is an increase in the time/ intensity while on the treadmill.