Fashion fiesta
The campus is abuzz with fashion that is simple yet stylish
THIS is the time of the season when the campus gets a new lease of life. Thanks to fashion divas frolicking up and down the departments, Student center, library. Trendy clothes, latest accessories and hairstyle, Punjab University is nothing short of a Lakme Fashion Week. The only difference being that the ‘parade’ on campus can be witnessed throught the year. Well, presently, the campus is abuzz with ravishing beauties, chiselled hotties sporting new trends. Let’s take a dekho at what’s hot and what’s not on the campus.

                                                                            Photos by Pradeep Tewari

Our own Malory Towers
Get a whiff of Enid Blyton's school series in city girl Tishaa Khosla's debut book
Her voice is in sync with her character. Cheerful and bubbling with ideas Tishaa Khosla is the new face of teenagers who want to make it big in the literary field. Following the likes of Chetan Bhagat, our lady is in for some serious thought process and has come out with a book — Pink or Black. Out of the publication house, ready to face the readers, the book will be in bookstores on August 30 across North India.

Panting for an extra pound
We’ve heard the woes of people constantly trying to lose weight. Now lend an ear to those trying exactly the opposite!
IT’S fashionable to be slim. And many celebrate slimness over diet Pepsi and sugarless cakes. But, there are a few who would do anything to put on those extra kilos. Running from pillar to post, these guys have one question: “We all talk about losing weight. Almost all articles published in any magazine or a newspaper deal with weight loose, clothes that make people look thinner and mirrors that make one appear so.
                                                                          Photos by Pradeep Tewari

Height of Style
Fashion comes to three-quarters of a circle
MEN’S fashion has taken a step further than sporting feminine colours and visiting the spa. They are aiming high now, as they get ready to show off their legs in knee-length pants! Three-fourths, as they are called, are the new trend on the city’s fashion circuit.

School rocks!
STILL under the High School Musical hangover? If you are among the chosen ones who are bitten by the musical keeda and swear by the likes of Rockford, the Beetles and worship Rolling Stones as gods, then we have good news for you. There is a crop of budding young musicians in the city, waiting to rock the world.

Matka Chowk
Holy COW!
I HAVE never been too fond of cows. It is a very un-Indian thing to say, I assume. But, I am much more comfortable grazing past a St. Bernard than a big and unfettered cow. Freud might have proclaimed that this is all because of the time I visited the holy temple of Kashivishwanath in Varanasi when I was merely five. The priest fondly put a rather large garland of marigold around my neck. However, the sacred bull that lounged around the narrow lane, found it irresistible and pounced on me for a ready snack!

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n I am married with kids. I’m a responsible man, looking after my family well. But I am in love with a married woman with a child for the past three-and-half years. She is an extrovert and enjoys being with people. I am possessive about her and don’t want anyone else to come into her life. I fear someone will snatch her away from me. Now she has cut me out from her life. She says she is suffering because of me. I’m upset.

Little Interview
Smita simply loves paani-puri
YOU first saw her in Itihaas, a daily soap on DD, before she took up Sony’s Challenge, a serial based on youngsters and their campus life. Meet Smita Bansal, the chirpy and effervescent girl who is back on television with some good roles in her kitty. Currently, Smita plays a responsible mother-in-law in Balikavadhu on Colors but she is pretty excited about Paani Puri, a comedy serial on Star One. We get talking to the girl, who believes in living every moment to the hilt.

Timeless beauties
In today’s time when contemporary jewellery rules the roost, this designer prefers to stick to classic designs. Annu Chadha, a jewellery designer from Mumbai is all excited about her second jewellery exhibition to be held in the city. The exhibition would showcase jewellery that can be teamed up with bridal, cocktail and daily wear.

Bride after ballot
SCARLETT Johansson has reportedly delayed her wedding, because her brother is busy working for Barack Obama. The actress, who has publicly backed Barack Obama, is due to marry Ryan Reynolds this year. But Johansson has put the nuptials on hold because her twin brother, Hunter, is busy working on Obama’s campaign.

First day first show
Serious topic, clumsy treatment
WHAT happens when a director yells ‘camera, action’ and goes on psychedelics? Celluloid turns into nautanki. An incredible version of Mughal-e-Azam is staged by a theatre group. It gets involved with spies and bhais. The country’s external intelligence agency, RAW, undertakes a covert operation to foil terrorists’ designs to create mayhem.