Trends for
A Perfect Bride

After a slowdown last season, as this year’s bridal bazaar seems poised for a bounceback, couturiers spell out the trends and the tastes of the Punjabi bride, writes Chetna Keer Banerjee
Style guru Manish Malhotra unveiled for the first time in the capital of Punjab a lavishly-mounted wedding wardrobe conceptualised around a car brand that spells sheer luxury: Skoda Superb. With economy showing signs of improvement can it be a drive away from downturn?
Return of opulence. Miss India Universe-2008 flies down to City Beautiful to showcase a Rs 7.5-lakh wedding lehenga and other bridal wear amid a media blitzkrieg.

‘I have to prove myself’
Sagarika Ghatge aka Preeti Sabarwal of Chak De! India is back with her second film Fox. Ritesh Sharma chats up the actor
Two years is a long gap and everyone had been waiting to see Preeti Sabarwal.
I know, I know, I have kept everyone waiting. This is something everyone has been asking me for a while now. I really appreciate this`85the love everyone has given me and now the wait is over.

WORDSMITH
Writing a lipogram
Deepti
Language gives interesting hobbies to people; think of a person who decides to write a particular work without using a certain alphabet. Gyles Brandreth rewrote Hamlet without using any ‘I’. Such a text is called a lipogram and here is an example of a nursery rhyme written without using ‘e’: