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Jokes apart
 Trust political parties of Punjab to hire standing comedians to keep their audience in splits till the leaders arrive to take the centrestage
Politics is a funny game. Funny as in peculiar, and very often funny as in 'ha-ha'. When elections roll around it ceases to be a funny game and becomes an absurd one. You might as well laugh at it; there is little else you can do. Now, you may have many words to describe politicians but they are rarely
humourless. They love nothing better than demolishing their opponent with a wisecrack and every once in a while, a politician even manages a self-deprecating joke at his own expense.
Calculated moves
 Padamshree Shovana Narayan handles arithmetic with as much expertise as she does Kathak
A demanding bureaucrat, prolific author, Kathak guru and performer of international repute - is what Shovana Narayan for you. Maintaining a judicious balance with her professional commitments of a director general (Audit), she had been reigning supreme on the Indian classical dance scene for over four decades.
Shovana, the pride of Bihar, is married to Dr Herbert von Traxl, a former Austrian Ambassador to India. In the city for a performance at Pracheen Kala Kendra's Sangeet
Sammelan, she shares her views on the contemporary classical dance scenario.
Time for trim
Designers say they are opting for lesser known models against Bollywood stars and are using economically effective material
Sales of luxury clothes have gone down as people have started feeling the pinch of global economic downturn, but designers at the ongoing Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, sounded optimistic. Designers are refusing to rein in their creativity; they are using less expensive materials to construct this year's must-haves.
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Best foot forward |
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Varun Dance Studio & Club Salsa
celebrated their first anniversary on Thursday with club members playing fun games like Jack 'n' Jill, Blindfold and Rock
your Floor.
Lifestyle Photos: Parvesh Chauhan |
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Designs on other
India
With wide smiles, immense confidence and effortless twirls, Rubina Ali Qureshi and Azharuddin Mohammed
Ismail, the child stars of Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire, Thursday walked the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week
(WIFW) ramp and performed a jig on the film's hit song Jai ho.
Light and Shade
Swarovski-studded eight and squares sunglasses continue to make style statements. But choose a pair that provides UV protection
The weather is already getting hot with the sun puffing and snorting fireballs. Well, it’s the perfect time to think about eye care and eye wear. But, when the
protection comes laced with style quotient, who minds the heat?
The fall
‘Everything short’ is the punch-line for this season’s fashion scene
Its fall in springtime, folks! That’s right. The pretty young things in the city are celebrating the seasons in the sun, and the ‘springtide of their lives’, by shedding those bulky garbs. Nay, it’s not just concise corduroy and denim jackets that are going off the fragile shoulders of the damsels, the ones out of distress of covering themselves up to the neck for protection against the dull hard bitterness of winters!
Bon Appetit
Yeh kya cheese hai?
Once upon a time there was this standard round tin of processed cheese available in our stores, and we were grateful it was there at all! Now, we seriously need to pick up and examine a pack sitting huddled amongst several other sorts, and ask, “Yeh kya cheese hai bhai?” You cant just plonk a wedge of cheese in your trolley without a planned agenda. If its pizza on your mind you’ll select a ball of Mozzarella.
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