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‘Can I buy you a drink?’
Don’t be startled to find a girl buying a Breezer at a tavern. No hullabaloo about it,
it’s changing mindsets, people.
This is no big deal. She gets out of her car in front of a liquor store and walks up to
the counter. “Sir, two chilled strawberry Bacardis. Could you
please open them?”
 She
collects the bottles, pays the cash and walks back to join her friend in the car.
“See it’s that simple,” the girl flashes a confident smile while passing the chilled bottle to her friend. “Now chill and just enjoy the drink.”
Two to Tango
City students Jashanpreet & Tahira make it to a forthcoming
dance-based reality show
If you can make a statement with your dance moves or croon away to glory, then small screen is where you should be. The young talent from Chandigarh seems to be making most of it.
Decades of neglect
A remarkable collection of works in the storeroom of the museum has become the victim of inadequate facilities
We had heard about the treasure trove of the Museum of Fine Arts that lies guarded
in its storeroom. But then, seeing is believing! So a chance to catch a glimpse of the
 eclectic collection boasting of paintings of the likes of M. F. Hussain, Bhupen Khakar, Arpana Caur, Ram Kumar and Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh would have been a lifetime experience for any art reviewer, had the euphoria not been marred by a concern about the condition of a few paintings here.
Arpana Caur’s So What-4
Geet gaata chal
Playback singing, Bollywood and reality shows are a distant dream for him. In fact, something he isn’t even working towards. Music, to Abdul Hafiz, is ibaadat, an art that he hasn’t learnt to market well.
Creative Zone
Pride of Patiala
The musical environment, upbringing and upright education under the blessed tutelage of worthy parents and gurus had gone a long way in chiselling the aesthetic potential of Bhairavi, the brilliant sitarist pride of Patiala. Born to the noted sitarist couple of Manmohan Sharma and Asha Lata of Patiala, the prodigious Bhairavi grew up listening and imbibing the soulful strains of the sitar as lullabies. Many of her childhood traits foreshowed the coming glory in her life.
A day at the salon
Drab, lifeless beauty parlours are so passé. Salons these days are more than just one stop beauty treatment shops. Comfort, luxury and indulgence are their mantra and more is better.
Not very long ago, nobody had heard of a beauty parlour leave aside a salon. Getting a hair cut or facial was reserved for your own wedding. As you sat there all excited and nervous, you had literally begged your parents to let you go to one and had to even shed a few tears, popular Bollywood numbers blared from hissing speakers. Sure to put you to sleep, the good part was that you were spared the torture of witnessing the damage being done to your hair!
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The namesakes
Neha, Pooja, Priya, Gaurav, Rahul, Amit... You find them left, right and centre. Call out for one at a crowded place and half a dozen heads turn around. The joys of having one of those oh-so-common names!
But wait a minute: You may call their names ordinary but their defence is that the kind of names we just mentioned are so lovable, everyone wants them.
Nicole-Keith have ‘gentle’ relationship
Actress Nicole Kidman says she loves being married to country musician Keith Urban because their relationship is gentler than her previous marriage to Tom Cruise. The 41-year-old
actress had wed the country musician in 2006.
Youth Speak
For God’s sake
The attitude that most rash drivers share is that they are invincible on the road. Stories like half a dozen killed and equal number injured have become staple news in the papers today. The sad part is that the number of speed addicts on road is increasing by the day. Hit and run accidents are direct consequence of rash driving.
Clooney’s got a new girlfriend
The woman with whom George Clooney reportedly started a romantic relationship even before splitting with Sarah Larson has been revealed. The Hollywood hunk started dating 29 year-old model and divorced mother of two, Jennifer Aguero from Miami, even while he was seeing Larson, reports the Daily Telegraph.
 Little Interview
Kunal’s keeping his fingers crossed
Between his successful movies Hum Tum and Fanaa, young
director Kunal Kohli has grown more at ease with the world. He
is ready with his first production, Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic,
backed by Yash Raj Films.
 Sidelanes
A large slice of the fruitcake
The Bishop of Delhi asked St Stephen’s to reserve a quota for Christian students with a 60% cut off point. The dailies exploded, as did the
public. It seemed justifiable anger. However, I wonder why such a
move is unacceptable?
New releases
Will love’s magic work?
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