Class apart
In town for his school reunion, fashion czar J.J. Valaya gets chatting about causes, couture and classroom days
It was a 'Pim-pom' greetings for ace fashion designer J.J. Valaya, who met his 1983 batchmates of YPS, Mohali, after a gap of almost 25 years. Clad in black-mystical, bewitching, bold, sinfully sexy yet a somber colour, JJ was at his best when it came to greeting his old pals, and well, they reciprocated with the same zest.


Past PErfect: JJ Valaya recalls his YPS days

Carols & cards that sing
There’re musical greeting cards with personalised Hindi songs & much more for Xmas
Bow down to technology. See, hear and even feel your loved ones sitting across the seven seas on a 22 inches screen of your laptop. Feeling strongly for someone? A click and there…your message has been sent. Now, that's called emotions traveling the Ferrari lane. But what of that droplet that settles at the edges of the eye, that warm smile, that throaty laugh? Is an Internet card affective in evoking the same feeling? Maybe not. Nothing can match the warmth of paper-made cards. Archies has rolled out an all-new concept in greeting cards - personalised songs to go with quotations.
CD room: Soak the spirit of Xmas with new music releases

Side Lanes
Simple and sweet
Today, more than ever before, Christ's message to mankind, holds truth and promise. He exalted the poor for they were simple and pure and would achieve and be received in the kingdom of God. To a child, this lesson was very confusing. Surely the poorest of the poor were not the privileged ones? What about me, the one who had a roof over my head, meat on the table, sweets, fruit and beautiful custom-made dresses? How could the grubby children around me be the chosen ones?

Bench mark

Visitors to the Museum and Art Gallery-10 soak the sun and arty-facts in the city on Thursday. Lifestyle photo: Himanshu Mahajan

Brawn ka kinng kaun?
Who is the sexiest of them all: John or Akshay
In what seems to be a case of too much of a good thing two separate publications have declared Akshay Kumar and John Abraham the 'Sexiest Man' of the year 2008.

Winning streak
A.R Rahman bags the best music director award for Slumdog Millionaire, which has bagged 20 awards
British director Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire has picked up 20 more awards this week, including those for Indian music director A.R. Rahman, British Indian actor Dev Patel and child artiste Ayush Mahesh Khedekar.

Art of Adishilp

Tribal craft is displayed at its best with terracotta, cane or shell items from Chhattisgarh at the Lajpat Rai Bhavan-15. Choose your pick from the best of handicrafts and handloom creations in metal, stone pottery, bamboo and paper machie hangings from the states of Rajasthan, Orissa, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Gujarat at Panchayat Bhawan-18

Chupke chupke…
Ghazals fade out of Bollywood
The lilting melodies of Jhuki jhuki si nazar and Chupke chupke raat din never fail to impress music buffs even today, but the popular ghazal genre seems to have taken a backseat in Bollywood.

Bowled over by Stone
Mallika Sherawat awestruck by Oliver Stone
Mallika Sherawat is certainly going places. The actor recently shared the stage with renowned Hollywood director Oliver Stone at the Global Brand Forum 2008 held in Kuala Lumpur.

Pray for sports
Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone offered prayers at world famous Venkateswara swamy here.

Thanksgiving
Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan advocated for equipping the security personnel with better protective gear to help protect them while fighting for the country. At an event, Khan expressed gratitude towards the security personnel who risked their own lives to save hundreds of innocents, during the deadly terror attacks.