Material girl
Talk about season change and the first thing that alters with the season is the fabric in your wardrobe. And with monsoons cooling the parched fashion scene, it's the cool linen, easy-to-dry georgettes and chic chiffons that are making heads turn than the cool cottons and rugged denims.

Monsoon magic
The monsoon style is bright, natural and of course that dries pleasingly. Gone are the days of dull and monotonous look on a rainy day. Monsoons mean bright colours to combat the cloudy and gloomy weather.
Dress sense The biggest favour you can do to yourself is to stack away those cigarette jeans for the rains. Bid good buy to tight, full length skirts and pure white outfits. Knee length skirts are in this season. But avoid wearing mini skirts loaded with embellishments. The key to comfortable dressing in rains is the fabric you chose, though some dry faster and some simply don't. It is fabrics like Lycra, tencel and synthetic that dry faster and should be worn in the monsoons. For those who prefer salwar kameez, they can choose crepes and drip-dry fabrics like georgettes etc.

Akshay the healer
Stallone turns to Ayurveda on Akshay's recommendation
Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone has turned to Ayurveda in an effort to end persisting knee pain after Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar told him to do so. Akshay, who was working with the action star in Hindi film Kambakkht Ishq, bonded with him during a chat about on-set injuries and suggested Ayurveda when Stallone started talking about his persisting knee problem, reported contactmusic.com.

Bollywood bound
I'd love to do another Hindi film, says Denise Richards
Denise Richards is going to watch more Hindi films, finds them more passionate than American romantic comedies and would love to do another Bollywood flick after her brief cameo in the big budget Kambakkht Ishq. The Hollywood star reveals all this and more in a conversation with co-star Akshay Kumar, who she admits she finds cute.

Sports star
Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone feels that her sports background has equipped her to balance the highs and lows in the film industry. "I know how to deal with success and failure. Success of Om Shanti Om did not affect me nor did failure of Chandni Chowk to China. I have learnt this as a sportsperson myself and from my father as a child," Deepika, daughter of Badminton ace Prakash Padukone, said.

Star trek

Bollywood actor Dharmendra with Pakistani actors Javed Shaikh (L) and Zara Shaikh, at the launch party of film Honor Killing, in Mumbai. PTI Photo

Going global
Bollywood cinematographer Aseem Bajaj was in Britain last month to shoot an independent British film, and says he accepted The Dreaming Spires because Ajay Devgan delayed the shooting of his next directorial venture.

‘Class’ apart
Some of the city-based students share their foreign experience and spell out the classroom and curriculum differences for us
What they doing Vs ‘How they do it’. 1857 mutiny. Staple standard twenty pages, mug up, cram, verbalise. 1857 mutiny. Explore, research, find out! The education system debate’s never going to expire. It all begins with the harmless of 1,2,3,4 or the apparently risk-free A, B, C, D, moving onto never ending theories and thesis. Likewise, there’s a permutation combination of same subjects, similar streams extending into myriad education systems in multiple countries!

In pink of things

Bollywood actor Celina Jaitley inaugurates a new store in Mumbai. PTI Photo

Love Aajkal
Manchtantra takes centrestage with its latest production Salt n Pepper
Two love-struck hearts, a pinch of salt and a little pepper, add to that a dash of humour and tadka of music. This is the hit recipe of Manchatantra’s latest production Salt n Pepper. The play is a musical romantic comedy highlighting the amalgamation of basic and the hatke ingredients of a healthy relationship with all shades of love, and has a musical score to match with. 

i tone
No lines, now Online 
Panjab University’s latest decision to launch online fee payment system for its students from this academic year is intended to reduce the queues and simplify things for students. Finally, we are going online and it’s almost fee time. We check reactions and awareness among the students.

Designer deals
It was a weighty issue indeed! Five year back, the single factor that was quisessential for a women buying gold was its weight. "Rest everything was secondary. Purchasing gold was the best form of investment or even better, a matter of pride. Style was something unheard of", shares Amber Paridhi Sahai, a veteran in the field of jewellery designing who is witness to the ever-evolving jewellery designing industry in India.  From then, five years down the line to today, design is the best bet and she proves it, "People don't want to spend on a piece of jewellery that doesn't look good on them. Style drives them or we can say, they are aware."  However, people still invest, with only their priorities changed, "They now put money in diamonds and solitaires as the chance of price variation is quite less, and they might get the same return after many years too."