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AS the news of the demise of Habib Tanvir on June 8 stirred the memory of my few meetings with him, oddly enough, I found one image haunting me — his constant fiddling with his all-too-familiar pipe. In the course of the interview, he would keep poking into it, emptying it, cleaning it, turning it up and down, right and left, filling it, puffing at it, and even when he seemed to enjoy the puff, he would smack it and start tinkering again, and yet again, all with keen concentration.

White magic
Having over 300 days of sunshine, 396 inches of annual snowfall, 18 world-class ski and snowboarding resorts, golf courses and a host of activities to suit every season, Akanksha Bhalla Ahluwalia finds Lake Tahoe an ideal holiday destination
OFTEN called the vacationers’ paradise, the beautiful, bright blue, Lake Tahoe is an ideal holiday destination in any season whether summer or winter. Although the area’s scenery and facilities draw visitors year-round, it is as a skiing and snowboarding destination that Lake Tahoe really thrives on.

Botox for boys
Whether you are 18, 65 or somewhere in between, you can take botox treatment. Many of our Bollywood actors owe their boyish good looks to this, says Hector Choksi
WELL! Botox is fast getting the name of boytox, as more and more men take to it as their cosmetic change, and are increasingly giving women a run for their money when it comes to extending their youth. Growing numbers of middle-aged men are resorting to botox to smooth away the ravages of time.

I sugarcoat bitter pill for kids: Alka Yagnik
Back to judge L’il Champs 2009 on Zee TV, the versatile singer talks to
Sreya Basu about why she loves judging reality shows
YOU are back to judge L’il Champs 2009 ...
Yes ... and you can expect more fun because this time it’s boys versus girls as our tagline says ‘Jeetenge yeh World, Boys ya Girls ...?’

Brawny beauties
A bevy of women actors is playing the fast 'n' furious femme fatale
with a vengeance, writes Derek Bose
HER name was Mary Evans, a sassy blue-eyed blonde from Australia, born to an English father and Greek mother. She was, however, known as ‘Fearless Nadia’, the first action queen of Indian cinema.

Getting waxed was a torture: Shreyas
Robin Bansal
Talented actor Shreyas Talpade, who plays a woman in debutant director Paritosh Painter’s Paying Guests, vows not to play a woman in near future. For him, getting his hair waxed for the role was extremely painful.