Swear by sari Just as the sari got reinvented so did the reasons and the occasions for wearing it Aishwarya Rai Bachchan walks in an elegant red chiffon sari. Bollywood's new hottie Deepika Paudkone wears an exclusive pink sari to an award ceremony. Item girl Rakhi Sawant sizzles in a metallic brown sari. Kareena Kapoor sparkles in heavy bordered white sari. Sassy Soha Ali Khan is adorning a dark blue sari and glamorous Rekha just can't do without traditional kanjeevarams, and off late, chiffons. Want more? Victoria Beckham donned more than a wig for her Vogue India cover. She wore a sari. And then the Pussycat Dolls thrilled in designer saris by Rocky S. This is it.

Like women, like men
Botox, liposuction, facelifts…men are busy catching up with women like never before
God made earth and man made google to find everything about it. So, when a doctor from the city mentioned to us, "Most of the voyages men undertook in the history were for two reasons, either wealth or youth." We resorted to google and found, hundreds of journeys were undertaken to Florida in search of fountain of youth and Tibet, to find Shangri La.

Notes on a Netbook
Netbooks, laptops, and desktops all make great choice for use, depending on the purpose you need it for. One difficult decision the users face while looking to buy a new computer is whether to go for PC or a laptop. When Netbooks were first introduced last year, they took the world by storm and now the decision what computer to buy becomes even more difficult.

Identity crisis
Some whacky, some philanthropic while others just funny. A whole range of email Id's and passwords add spice to cyberspace.
Manju@skyislimit.com, pradeepfilmi@yahoo.com, manishak3456@yahoo.co.in, godsavetheworld@hotmail.com, neerajcoolstar@45979…did these sound weird, interesting, funny, strange. Well, they are. The kind of email addresses floating on line is certainly a figment of creative and whacky minds. But, what gets people to create such addresses, is the noticeablity or it is the heavy traffic that is forcing them to go in for such attention addresses.

STAR SIGNS Finding Friends "At one point, the whole boom in technology sounds scary to me," says actor of Nauheed Cyrusi of Lakeer fame. "I read on the Internet that pretty soon we would have human-like robots to give us company. Now, this is horrifying. However, if everything is used in limits then it is fine," adds the pretty-faced actor, who feels that time has taught her to handle her profession smartly.

Mechanically perfect When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. But, when the machine gets tough, it is the mechanic who has to get going. The Castrol Golden Spanner Awards competition laid a challenge for the best mechanics of India. Babulal, All India Winner of Castrol Golden Spanner awards strikes a victory pose with Anuradha Bambawale, marketing manager, Castrol India Ltd.

MOCK TALES
Teen wrapsody
Bored of the usual Indian rona dhona? Well, switch over to spicy and sexy English teen dramas
Locker rooms, high-school proms, detension episodes; The OC, 90210, The Gossip Girl, Dawson’s Creek, in short Zee Café and Star World! In short, English soaps. By now, you essentially fall on either side of the fence; one that know exactly what we’re talking about, those who are as clueless as the lost Bo-Peep. Yes, English channels too have their own phenomenon!

Rustic charm
After a zillion ‘face-changing’ operations on Indian TV, here comes the real facelift
So, do you smell something? The rustic village roads, whiff of rural air filling your senses, the bhaujis and jijis in full traditional display. The concrete giving way to grand old havelis, the Ammajis, dadisas and daddajis replacing well-suited dads and moms with subtle hints of grey in their otherwise perfect strands. Well, if you still don’t smell the change on the television then consult an ENT specialist.

SPADE WORK Of Pots and water The importance of water is realised only when it becomes a rare commodity. And it has become so now in the absence of rains. Otherwise too, what a rain can do much irrigation cannot. When people are struggling to meet their daily compulsory watering needs, the plants become last priority. But ask the true gardener, who would not like to loose even the leftover water in a glass and use it in a pot or basket. The ways have to be found.

Have Mercy, Madge Madonna’s adopted daughter Mercy’s grandmother claims that the little girl was to be returned to her family from the orphanage she was living in. Lucy Chekechiwa, the maternal grandmother of the Malawian child, claims that the family never agreed to put the four-year-old up for adoption on a permanent basis. ‘The’ funeral for Jackson Late King of Pop Michael Jackson’s funeral is expected to be even bigger than Elvis Presley’s in 1977, when 75,000 fans lined the streets of Memphis. If that happens, Jackson’s funeral will become the biggest, the entertainment world has seen.

Doctorate? My pleasure!
The University of Bedfordshire will honour Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan with an honorary doctorate in the field of arts and culture on July 10. The actor was nominated by NGO Routes to Roots, which has people like Anuradha Mahindra, Juhi Chawla and Mahesh Bhatt among its patrons.

Beauty and the beast

A young foreign lady passes in front of a life- size photograph of lions fighting in the hot afternoon. Photo: Vinay Malik

Song of the angel

Singer Beyonce performs “Ave Maria” at the BET Awards ‘09 in Los Angeles on Sunday — Reuters

Island escape
Johnny Depp splashed out on the 45-acre tropical paradise in the Caribbean after discovering it by chance on a family holiday. “Like everything else in my life, it wasn’t planned, it just kind of happened. After I had done the first Pirates movie I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl and someone said there was an island down the road for sale.

Teen queen in trouble
After Miley Cyrus’ provocative pictures were posted on Twitter by her film producer, her status as the teen queen of US has been seriously threatened. In fact, Miley’s Hannah Montana show has slipped below 2.5million viewers while iCarly star Miranda Cosgrove now leads the “tween market” with 2.7million. “Miley can only damage her career by allowing -risqué photographs to be taken,” a publication quoted a Los Angeles-based psychologist Fran Patterson as saying.