Body business
Strange it was! A renowned fashion choreographer, Kaushik Ghosh and a famous model, Sahiba Singh, in the city to hold a seminar organised by IIFT and to announce an image building workshop, which the duo will conduct near Diwali and guess what they stressed upon, “Reality shows in which contestants use foul language should be banned.”Kaushik has a justification, “They are degrading the image of our youth. Imagine, what outsiders would think of Indian youth when they see a bunch of attention-hungry youngsters calling names on national TV.           
                                               Kaushik  Ghosh and Sahiba Singh.

Creative craft
Back from an educational trip to Maharashtra, NIIFT students craft an exhibition of diverse and unique art forms
Finding innovative ways to use the dying art forms is better than cribbing about their near extinction. This is precisely what the annual Craft Documentation of Northern India Institute of Fashion Technology (NIIFT), Mohali aims at.
The group Dagd-ancha-desh display their work.

Hand Crafted
The various crafts covered were:
Sutra Humrooh - Humrooh is an old age weaving art of Aurangabad. The region’s weavers skillfully combined cotton and silk thread to produce extravagant mixture called Humrooh, which means something which has the soul of a fabric called Kumkhab

Oriental express

Foodies take note. Purple Rice-35 starts a Oriental barbeque & sizzler fest along with a beer fest.Lifestyle photo: Parvesh Chauhan

Living on the edge
Walking on a narrow plank between two high-rise buildings, jumping from some 100 feet (harness attached of course) and eating half-cooked wild animals after its poison has been extracted and you term it adventure! So, how would you define this? Sans any food, water or company, one man puts up all by himself for seven days in the uninhabited arctic region and jungles of Central America. He even has to carry 50 pounds of camera gear and batteries along and shoot on his own whatever he does to survive in the adverse conditions. Discovery Channel's new series, Survivorman, featuring filmmaker Les Stroud, is all about real adventure.

Over a cup of coffee
Imagine the things that can happen over a cup of coffee. Discovery of a water-powered gadgets, a new sound track, chance finding of a solution to an issue, thought of getting back with your ex, or saying yes to a marriage proposal! Well, there are numerous possibilities to be explored over a cup of coffee. Not to forget heart-to-heart conversations. To do all these and more step into the newly opened Café Coffee Day (CCD) in Sector 10.

War of the DJs
Another Saturday Nite devoted to some hardcore clubbing! But hey wait, the fun is not the usual music, masti and round of drinks sorts. Here the fun begins with the battle. And the battleground is Zinc Lounge-26, with DJ Piyush and DJ Arcane taking each other head on, playing live synthesis, fusion, electronica and Asian Underground. The Mumbai based duo will perform along with DJ Sameer and DJ Rohit of Chakra:Vu, bringing down the house with their tricks and tunes.

Momo, momo all the way!
This steamed delicacy is the latest to catch the foodies’ fancy
Ok, so they are omnipresent. Every nook, every corner has a rehri parked that sells this dish of Chinese origin in the Indian flavour. Humble looking, cabbage or chicken filled, served with a chilli and sweet sauce - momo is what we call them. And so much is the craze for this dish that we see momowallas mushrooming in every sector. From a single rehriwalla or a group of guys with posters that read— Momo veg, momo non-veg, spring roll available. It seems Punjabis have taken a fancy to these potli-like things, but what amazes us is not the popularity (knowing Punjabis' love for food), but the growing number of these momo-sellers and similarity of their menu.

Bon Appetit
A perfect pear 
It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.
The fragrant aroma, buttery texture, and succulent taste of a ripe pear is an experience in itself. There are grainy ones and really crisp ones to choose from, each going by a different local name. Unripe pears ripen at room temperature after a few days, but they lack the taste of a tree-ripened fruit. Avoid pears with bruises, cuts or a dark brown colour and purchase pears while slightly green because they ripen better and faster off the tree. Look for pears with a smooth unblemished skin. Ripe ones will yield slightly to gentle pressure at the stem end.

Say health!
Aha! Health packet
The health food stalls at Fortis OPD saw a variety of healthy victuals. One could pick breakfast cereals from Aha, probiotic health drink from Yakult, functional food from Saffola, healthy milk, yoghurt etc from Nestle, soya products from Allegro, lite-atta, lite maida, lite sooji etc from Zero G and bakery items like sugarless cookies, multi-grain bread etc from Monica's.

Curry on board
German carrier Lufthansa unveiled a new in-flight menu to give its first and business class passengers on India route a rich gourmet experience with Indian culinary delights especially crafted by two well-known chefs. Prawn curry masala, Tomato pappu (lentils), khade masale ka paneer (cottage cheese), lal mans (lamb) and Alleppey fish curry are some of the creations of Farman Ali and Surender Mohan, both of them master chefs with the Leela group.