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Papas don't teach
Indian dads’ report cards don’t read all that well. Only 4 pc are actively involved in their children’s studies, points out a
research
 There has been an increasing global focus on role of parents, both father and mother, in bringing up kids. But sadly, the scenario in India still remains bleak. According to a recent survey -Plight of Modern Father towards their Children - carried out by ASSOCHAM Social Foundation, just four per cent working fathers take active part in their kids' upbringing and studies. The survey involved 4,700 working parents in all metros and other places, including Lucknow, Chandigarh, Pune, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Udaipur, Shimla, Dehradun, Indore, Patna and Cochin.
Tricity fathers’ scores improve
A recent father-child relationship study conducted in Chandigarh revealed that dads are increasingly participating in kids' upbringing but they are still way behind their female counterparts. The study included men with children less than the age of 15 selected through stratified random sampling out of a pool of doctors in the PGI and General Hospital-16 and lawyers from the Punjab and Haryana High Court and lower courts.
 Exam time:
Don’t do a Munnabhai
Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt Monday asked students not to cheat in examinations - like his character in Munnabhai M.B.B.S - as he donned the role of a
teacher during a visit to a local college in Lucknow. Taking a "class" at the National College, Dutt called on the students not to use unfair means in examinations as Munnabhai resorted to in the film.
He also highlighted the role of teachers in society. "Teachers play a very important role in nation-building. We should always remain grateful to our teachers, who guide us at every step to see us successful," he told the students.
Sanjay Dutt
 Post-Slumdog, India wanted
The international success of feel-good drama Slumdog Millionaire has inspired many British filmmakers to explore India and Bollywood as the new "exotic" location for their films.
With the Bollywood-inspired story winning eight Oscars, the British film industry seems to have fallen head over heels in love with India, said a British newspaper.
A still from Slumdog Millionaire
 Parsis' comic side
Bollywood provided a hilarious take on Parsis with the 1978 film Khatta Meetha that starred Ashok Kumar and Pearl Padamsee. Thirty years later Sooni Taraporewala's Little Zizou is another humorous insight into the community, taking digs at their stereotypical oddities.
Khaata Meetha highlighted the biggest dilemma among Parsis - their problem with inter-caste marriage. An offspring from such a union is considered to be a
non-Parsi, resulting in their fast dwindling numbers, which is pegged at about 100,000 now in India.
But Little Zizou talks about religious fundamentalism and reform, while putting the spotlight on traits unique to the community.
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These girls just wanna have fun as they practice on the eve of the cultural fest Soch that gets going on the PU campus from Wednesday.
Lifestyle photo: Parvesh Chauhan |
Layman treatment
The courts are treating Britney Spears like a Soviet labour camp victim as depicted in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, claims a Los Angeles lawyer. Gulag Archipelago, the three-volume book, is based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system.
Clooney's cameo
The brief return of George Clooney to ER has given the long-running medical drama its best rating in two years, as the series draws to a close. Clooney's comeback episode, also featuring former regulars Noah Wyle and Eriq La Salle, saw a 23 percent increase in viewers, reports the BBC.
Madonna's moves
Madonna's new boyfriend Jesus Luz has moved in with her in New York - just three months after their first meeting. Apparently, the hunky model has ditched his modelling agency in Rio de Janeiro and signed with elite agency Ford Models in the Big Apple. And he's set up home with the star in her Upper West Side apartment.
Much ado about something
The cultural nite scene on the campus is going from ugly to uglier. It’s time for the authorities to wake up and take some corrective measures
So, what is the solution? To cultural and star nite problems we mean. But then, is there a problem in the first place? With the recent Amrinder Gill nite getting ugly to the ‘very recent’ Mika nite getting uglier, it’s about time somebody did some serious reconsidering; at least reorganising the problem. Without waiting for one more event to go off-beam and hog the limelight for all the wrong reasons, making damage control irreversible, we march ahead and ask the ‘key questions’.
Memories of mountains
The Lavasa couple believes in going wild in the wilderness. And they believe in sharing their memorable moments too
 As a theme, it’s nothing new. We have had seen enough of mountains, Leh-Ladakh to be precise, through the lenses of Sanjay Khumbhkarni to Diwan Manna to Ashok Dilwali. Not to forget amateur photographers sharing their experience about those high snow-clapped mountain peaks, rugged terrains and interesting faces with viewers from time to time. But, somehow, the end result is never boring. So, when the invitation came for this one called Stand & Stare by Novel and Ashok Lavasa at the Government Museum and Art Gallery-10, we felt the familiar enthusiasm creeping up.
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Pleasure, post-exams
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