String Sutra
Basant bahaar. The season of spring has brought a bouquet of melody from afar, with the sounds of Scotland blending with the sarod at Samaagam,

writes Chetna Keer Banerjee. Tunes after terror. Melody beyond Mumbai. That Samaagam, a unique confluence of sarod recital and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, should have begun its six-city India tour from post-26/11 Mumbai, is perhaps symbolic of power of music in uniting humanity, especially in the face of modern-day scourges like terror and violence. n Mere sur aur teri beat… n Violin vistas n Beyond bagpipes n Highlands to Himalayas

Photo: Kamal Kishore

22 is the catch
When it comes to bonding with parents, watch out for 22, says a study
What parents do for kids is phenomenal, right from bringing them into the world to waking up late nights, changing nappies, getting them into school, making them learn how to walk and talk, the skills needed to survive in this mad, bad world and plenty more. But do you know when children really start valuing their parents?

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Conned on Facebook
Married man travels 400 miles for romp with a hoax lover
A married Manchester United fan drove 400 miles for a romp with a girl he had met on Facebook, only to discover that it was a hoax set up by two rival Liverpool supporters. Stuart Slann, 39, is said to have made a nine-hour trip from his home in Sheffield to a remote farm in Scotland last month to meet the woman he had been messaging with on Facebook.

Good parenting
Apart from providing good living, education and support, parents need to provide kids moral grooming too
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation,” said celebrated pediatrician and US surgeon general C. Everett Koop. But while bringing up kids, our mind is so pre-occupied with thoughts of arranging their admission into a posh school, planning a Disneyland holiday and saving for the future expenses that we forget the very premise of parenting: Making our children good human beings.

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Artist in peril
lifestyletribune@gmail.com or Life Style, The Tribune, Sector 29, Chd.
I am a 32-year-old struggling artist who has lived the life of an idealist throughout.  While I am painting and drawing, I come alive but this is short lived because of the harsh realities of life.

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Seven wonders
This photography exhibition at PU captures the extraordinary in ordinary
Metaphorically speaking, it's a VIBGYOR. Not because of harsh blinding psychedelic electric colours, but due to the play with number seven. Seven names, seven photographs and forty-nine prints.

Through Rajinder Bhandari’s lens (left);     ‘The Tribune’ by Kuldip Dhiman (below right).     Photos: Parvesh Chauhan