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Beyond boundaries
In the city for a play on Kashmiri ethos, Meeta Vashisht talks of theatre, TV and tinsel town…
 Lal
Ded, a poetess, symbolised Kashmiriyat. She bridged the various communities of Kashmir. Her teachings still find ample mention in daily conversation of the people of Kashmir. Lal Ded and her philosophies, after 700 years, are of more significance since the meaning of Kashmiriyat is evolving for the worse. And now Lal Ded and her teachings are being taken beyond the boundaries of Kashmir to people in other parts of India and Pakistan through theatre. "The real essence of Kashmiriyat lies in the poems of Lal Ded , which defines it as a common culture being shared by people from different religions, where religion is secondary and culture readily takes over it," informs Meeta
Vasisht, who is in the city to stage the 75-minute-long solo play on Lal Ded at Tagore Theatre.
Tale of an actor
'When I looked at you, I could see George Khan coming. It was like starting from where you left.' Nandita Puri is eager to share with her husband, observations from the morning shoot, lest he busies himself with something else. Which, he already has. No creases on his forehead that would tell the story of struggle in his life, no mellowed-down expressions, Om Puri's face represents a perfect state-focused. The soft-spoken Nandita resumes with her work. Meanwhile, their son Eshaan pushes whatever information he can pass on, to his busy dad -We are leaving tomorrow, homework's to be done, I read a weird book, the saag that we had at your friends house was yum.
Triple treat
In the city to stage a play, the versatile Salim Arif, actors Kiran Karamakar and Lubna Salim talk about the stage and more...
 "Any genre of art, especially drama, articulates and reflects the gamut of elemental life, its realities and experiences for expression and communication on stage, not to the isolated individuals alone but the entire humanity, " opine the versatile trio of celebrated director Salim
Arif, actors Kiran Karamakar and Lubna Salim. An alumnus of the National School of Drama, Salim Arif and acclaimed film production designer Salim has many hits to his credit like
Maachis, Hu Tu Tu, Fiza, Guru, Takshak and television serials Mirza Ghalib, Chankya to name a few. Besides directing serials Daaman and Saath
Saath, Salim has produced, directed and staged over dozen plays in India and abroad. In the city to stage a play Hamsafar at the ongoing National Theatre Festival, we interacted with director Salim Arif and the actors who also offered their views.
Showstopper
Thousands gather to catch a glimpse of Kangana
Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut is in lucknow to shoot for her upcoming film Tanu Weds Manu much to the delight of the locals who are thronging in thousands to catch a glimpse of the actor.Kangana is shooting with co-stars R Madhavan and Jimi Shergill for the past 15 days in the city and has been a centre of attraction for the eager fans.The enthusiastic crowd reportedly went overboard and there were commplaints of disruption on the sets of the film at the Kaiserbagh locality. However, the police has denied of any untoward incident and said that the cast and crew have been provided with
adeqaute security.
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Actor Salman Khan at a road show in Sumerpur on Monday. PTI Photo |
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Fun begins here
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Actor Akshay Kumar plays with a girl during a promotional event for his movie Blue at a multiplex in Mumbai on Sunday.
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One helluva job
Comedy is undervalued in Bollywood: David Dhawan
At a time when comedies are raking in the moolah for filmmakers, comedy king David Dhawan's lighthearted movie Do Knot Disturb wasn't received well at the box office. He laments that the genre is very much undervalued. “Comedy is very much undervalued in
Bollywood. This is because every person today stands up and makes a comedy. People feel it is the easiest to make so everyone is making it. But that's just a perception,” told
Dhawan.
Gift of honour
National Awards to be held on
Wednesday in New Delhi
From singer Manna Dey to veteran director Adoor Gopalakrishnan, the biggest names in Indian cinema will gather here for the 55th National Film Awards to be presented by President Pratibha Patil on October 21. While eminent play back singer Manna Dey would be conferred the prestegious Dada Saheb Phalke Award, auteurs like Adoor and actor Uma
Shree, National Award winners for 2007, will collect their coveted trophies.
Frame by frame
Indian Panorama section to include mainstream Bollywood
The 'Indian Panorama' section of the International Film Festival of India, 2009 will include mainstream Bollywood fare like Anurag Kashyap's Dev D and Vishal Bharadwaj's
Kaminey. The festival to be held in Panjim, Goa, from November 23, will showcase six movies from Bengal, three from Karnataka, three from Maharashtra and two each from Kerala and Tamil
Nadu, in the Panaroma section.
Sculpting success
Do you know Lawrence School, Sanawar has the oldest hobby centre in the country? Or, that it was started to engage the British students occupied after the Sepoy Mutiny broke out in 1857? Or, that the art gallery of the school has one of the largest original M. F. Husain works (18 feet by 4 feet), which he created there while demonstrating the students and now worth crores of rupees? Or, even that Sukhbir Badal won many laurels for the school as a sculptor at many a national competitions. As did N. P. S. Randhawa, director of our government museum?These are the trivia we picked up as we interacted with 30 students and three accompanying teachers — D. C. Jhangra, Ina Mehta and Avneet Chopra — at the Government Museum and Art Gallery-10.
Visual treat
Nanika Singh’s painting exhibition showcases a wide spectrum of emotions and colours
 As her profile says she is a psychologist by profession and artist and sculptor by hobby, one would naturally expect to see intricacies of human mind on her canvas. But instead, the debut solo exhibition of Nanika Singh at the Government Museum and Art Gallery-10 draws the viewer away from the complicacies of human nature and takes you to the world, where things are simple and nice.
Rock ‘n’ raaga
City boy, Asim Halwarvi, is all set to release his instrumental album, Anthemia
How does it feel to be 15 and have an album to one’s credit? “Out of the world,” comes the expected reaction. And why not — from the drummer boy of the Vivek High orchestra to the keyboard, piano and now an instrumental album called Anthemia — it has been quite a journey for a young boy. But, he’s loving it!
Queen Bee
Reetu Kapoor, director of Kashmir Apiaries Pvt Ltd., Doraha, Ludhiana (Punjab) won the Apimondia Honey Queen Title in recently held Apimondia International Beekeeping conference in Montpellier, France. Apimondia is an International Federation of Beekeeper’s Association and world body of 61 member countries. This organisation organises international conference in every alternate year and in this year, more than 10,000 delegates, 1500 scientists, 200 exhibitors from more than 100 countries participated.
Sky is the limit
Sky events bring an all-new dining experience to the city
The first ten minutes you hear people jittering, coming to terms with the fact that they are some 50-feet high from the ground. Next five minutes, they take to normalise and calm down. Then comes the time to make phone calls to friends and family members and tell them, “You wouldn’t believe where I am right now? I am going to dine at such a height with 23 other people.” And then, after spending good 25-minutes, the dinner finally begins.
Hip, hip, hurray
Oh c’mon, you know, an institute’s worth talking about when a layman on the road gives directions keeping it as landmark. Government Home Science College—10 conveniently falls in this category. About time we included the institute in our string of ‘Campus Connect’ series. It’s actually quite a walk away from the main gate, pleasant departure from the present educational instates battling space constraints…Let’s walk the talk!
Girls Just wanna have
fun:Students caught in various moods at the campus grounds.
Knight in shining armours
They curse the statistics, certainly if they read like. There are about 40,000 children living on the streets of Chandigarh leading a miserably life with no money, no fod and no education. Many of these children are alone; many turn to the murky world of drugs and alcohol to cope with their situation. All of them live from day to day concerned with survival, food and shelter.AIESEC, the international student exchange body’s initiative Balakalakaar aims at making a difference and reaching to the right people.
Your car or mine…
My my, are you blushing too! Last one was about love, this one’s about love too, the unofficial sorts. Hey you, itsy bitsy babes…always wanted us to write about this one, so here we are spilling the secrets, the skeletons in the cupboard, the beans on the floor, you get the point.
Understanding India…
Students at Kansas State University are looking forward to a deeper understanding of India and experiencing its culture, say two leaders who are working to give students more opportunities to learn about and experience South Asia.
Negatively speaking
A new study, conducted by Wake Forest University researchers, has shown that when parents expect their teenage kids to conform to negative stereotypes, those teens are in fact more likely to do so.
Now, a digi-library!
Panjab University’s move to digitalise rare collections of AC Joshi Library draws a mixed response from the youngsters
Some great news to begin the post-break session with. Harmonious combination
of tradition with technology. Some rare collections of AC Joshi Library, Panjab
University are being digitized to preserve them for near future and also to make
them available to researchers online. Are we finally headed to state of digi-libraries?
What next would they want to be turned to soft copies? Is it textbooks next?
Stereotypes, side please
Men no longer find blonde hair hot, instead they go for the natural look when it comes to finding a partner, an Australian study has found. The Great Australian Sex Census suggests that the men prefer "average" looking partners to those with fakes and brunettes to blonde hair.
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