Early show
Is the trend of showcasing art through amateur student groups a healthy one? We find out….
Rewind: In 1998, 13 students of the Government College of Art formed a group called Great Artists. It aimed at proving a platform to budding artists by organizing exhibitions. The group survived till 2003, actually till they got scattered for their professional obligations.Fast forward: The year is 2008 and four students, Shiven Tanwar, Akash Gaur, Rakesh Kumar and Praveen Kumar, students of the Government College of Art, formed the group Four and launched themselves with an exhibition at the Government Museum and Art Gallery-10.

Ask Anjolie
This series of arguments and counter-arguments give rise to one more question. If some one finds success even while studying, does it likely to get into one's head, thereby stunting one's growth as an artist? We talk to no other than Anjoilie Ela Menon to bail us out from this one.

Cultural call
Bollywood is one medium that can promote Indian culture around the world, says Rani
Actor Rani Mukherjee, who is here to promote her upcoming movie Dil Bole Hadippa at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), believes that Bollywood can play a key role in promoting Indian culture and heritage around the world. “Besides entertainment, Bollywood can be a powerful medium in educating millions of people of Indian origin and others about Indian culture and heritage and strengthening global connections,” she said. The actor, who is back on silver screen after a gap of one year, set aside the rumours of her marriage and said her mother is a continuous inspiration to do films. “My mother inspired me to go the films, otherwise I would have been now mother of two children,” she said on the eve of the World Premiere of her movie.

Fear factor
Britain-based Indian filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra, who is attempting an action thriller for the first time with Chase, says he is taking a big risk by making such a movie. “It is quite possible that over the years people who have begun to like my films get disappointed since my films are mostly issue-based and there is no issue attached to Chase. On the other hand, those who don’t like my kind of films would think this will also be an issue-based film so why go and watch it.

21 saal baad
Neil Nitin Mukesh was seen as a child actor in the 1988 film Vijay, which also featured Rishi Kapoor and Hema Malini. The trio is now set to come together after 21 long years for Ken Ghosh’s new film.“Now isn’t that a once in a lifetime coincidence?” Ghosh exclaimed. “For me, getting Neil Nitin Mukesh, Rishi Kapoor and Hema Malini to star in the film was good enough and now this fact being highlighted has only proven to be the icing on the cake,” the director said. In Vijay, each of the three actors had a rather strange screen appearance and they hardly shared screen space. While Neil played Hema Malini’s little son, Rishi went on to play his grown up version. This made Hema Malini Rishi Kapoor’s on-screen mom.

Mann ka radio…
With PU all set to have its own radio channel, we tune in to the youngsters’ expectations
Seriously speaking, the news is worth hooting for in a true hoodlum manner. Finally, students will be tuned into Panjab University, only on…whatever the frequency!Skip the technicalities, never mind we’re yet to get frequency allotment or the license consent due by the ministry. The nod from the center is enough green signal to list out what we want and what we wish.

Campus calling
Beyond books
Would it be wise to include a deemed university among city colleges column? Well, leaving PEC out wasn’t an option either. So should one expect to bump into a specy crowd, with large tomes tucked in, probably holding a drawing pencil? Every college has a lingo, a jargon mysterious to outsiders. What’s theirs? No substitute for exploring.

Radio ga ga
Now that Panjab University and its affiliated colleges will have their own radio station, we ask students one thing they wouldn’t wish to hear on it.

Facebook? Yahoo! 
Social networking site Facebook has launched a slimmed-down version of its site for people with slow or poor Internet connections, and it is currently available only in India and the US. Facebook’s Lite site, which will be faster and simpler because it offers fewer services than the main site, had initially been meant to support users in developing countries, where bandwidth constraints make the current version too slow to use. 

Blame it on TV
Background TV in homes takes a toll on the interactions between parents and young children, according to a new study. In the study, researchers at the University of Massachusetts analysed about 50 kids between the age group of 1-3 years, each of whom was with one parent.

Bakwaas Bytes
Speak out!
Heyee…long time, no see? Where were all the honeybees buzzing all this while? I didn’t mean the ones on trees, morons. Fresher’s yes! These ‘silly frillies’, at one such competition no, uff…