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Friends of Punjab
In the city for a promotional event, we catch up the star cast of Kisaan
While visiting your relatives or friends in Punjab, how many times have you looked out of the car window and admired the lush green fields that sway in bliss. How many times did you think about the hands, which have relentlessly worked under the sweltering sun, in the foggy mornings? How often? But, a modest looking actor from Bollywood did.
L to R: Diya Mirza, Nauheed Cyrusi, Akanksha and Sohail Khan.
Photo by Pradeep Tewari
High on fashion
 Indian fashion is a rare combination of creativity and commercial viability; say designer Anuj Sharma and Rahul
Mishra. In the city,
they offer a variety of designer deals
Rebellion. The word redefined. It doesn't necessarily encompass accomplishing the most difficult or complicated tasks; just as the present implication is an absolute paradox to many preconceived notions. "The challenge today is to come up with simpler concepts, banal ideas that has the potential to be accepted worldwide," comes the newfound definition from fashion designers, Anuj Sharma and Rahul
Mishra.
From the heart of Haryana
Art doesn’t know boundaries, it has no end,” believes Harvinder Malik, a man who practices what he preaches, a painter, a producer-director and an underlying cultural activist. Malik, a passout from Indian theatre department, PU, comes with a complete package and profile. A rather successful stint in Bollywood, working with Mahesh Bhatt as an assistant director on films like Junoon, Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke, Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Ayi and Sir, his struggle stared where other’s ended.
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Summer splash |
This girl enjoys a hot summer spatter near a fountain at the Herbal Garden in Panjab
University. Lifestyle Photo: Pradeep Tewari
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Tryst with melody
Classical vocal maestro Bholanath Mishra, talks about reality shows and classical music in today’s time
Coming from a musical family of Harihar Pur near Azamgarh (UP) and holding allegiance to Benaras
gharana, the youthful dynamic maestro, Bholanath Mishra has all the credentials for being popular among the proponents of pristine purity in music, light classical genres and semi like
Thumri, Kajri and Chaiti. Now settled in Delhi and working with AIR as a senior staff artist since 1993 Bholanath
Mishra, was in the city on the invitation of his foremost disciple, Piyusha
Mitra. On his way back from Shimla after a concert, he shares his views with the Lifestyle on certain issues.
 Ladies first
Playing judge to an all women comedy show, yesteryear actor Tabbassum gets candid
Manipulative home wreckers with heavy makeup and garish contact lenses, sobbing or weeping damsels, battling saas-bahus and husband snatchers. The best the small screen has done to womenhood is to slap it with villany or call them ‘virtues’. Women have ruled the entertainment business for quite some time now, and taking forward the domination is a new show with women in a never-seen-before avtar. Stand up comics.
 Phone for thought!
Who says mobile phone is a piece of technology, which is used for limited purpose—making and receiving calls, clicking pictures at the hostel canteen or sending long and short messages. At present the market is flooded with different brands of hi-end phones, and companies rolling out many more. Mobile phones are no longer a utilitarian thing, they are an experience. And with the Launch of Nokia N86 8MP, the experience has raised one step higher. At least, this is what the new brand promises.
Combined with an eight-mega pixel camera and a wide angle Carl Zeiss Tessar optics, N86 ensures that impromptu photo opportunities are never missed.
Photo by Pradeep Tewari
 Just do it!
Make sentences with the following words; can, should, must. You can be dot on time for the nine o' clock lecture. A student should take notes and be regular all year around. As for must? Well, you must bunk! Not that you needed encouragement, but this transportation back to the Wren and Martin grammar classes was to help set your 'priorities' right. Bringing you all the 'have to do' things while you're a student on campus. Read further at your own risk.
Event full
 The AIESEC June National conference would play host to 400 delegates from across the country
It's not 'just another student initiative.' Don't bracket it either as 'only local' or 'truly international.' It's both and more. We're talking of AIESEC and for the uninitiated the student organisation already boasts of reach of 100 plus
Countries and 1100 universities.
AIESEC Chandigarh Chapter members.
Photo: Vinay Malik
Incredible India
Montreal to Hoshiarpur! Post the exclamations, the explanations…Florence Jumeaux, business administration student from Canada will be undertaking the atypical journey…Lifestyle catches her at Mountview and she makes it a point to mention her excitement before anything else.
Ten, take part!
Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone did more to IIT's than even the engineers themselves! Result? It might be a dreadfully difficult to get in one, but we're interested. The life of an
IIT, the hostels, the festivals. Talking of which, Techniche 2009, the annual techno management fest of IIT
Guwahati, having completed ten years, rolls out this year starting 3rd September.
Not another
teen tale!
A teenage girl who alleged she fell asleep while getting her face tattooed has confessed she lied and was up the whole time. Kimberley Vlaminck had claimed she asked for only three stars to be tattooed near her left eye but was shocked to find 56 stars on her face after she woke up.
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Mixed singles
Finally, some cheer on the sporting circuit. Saina Nehwal, lifts not just the Indonesian Open 2009 but the nations spirit. Will she do to badminton, what Sania Mirza did to tennis?
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