Happy go unlucky
What Mehak does not have that others in Bollywood have? Luck and right contacts...
Ten years is a long time! When born with a glamourous look and blessed with the perfect height, vital statistics and still it takes a decade to make a mark in Bollwyood, you got to realise something's amiss. Something that's more crucial to be successful in the industry, something that helps one to sustain in the competition, something that trivialises even factors like skills and looks, "And that 'very important something' is right contacts and I wasn't lucky to have them," reasons Mehak Chahal as to what makes her go off screen every now and then.

Wanted stylist
When you are just being 'human', you ought to be jealous. Being jealous is a human tendency. Those from the fashion fraternity or Bollywood who criticised Salman Khan's fashion show and collection of clothes, 'Being Human', were actually just being human. Ashley Rebello, Fashion stylist for films like Wanted, Main or Mrs. Khanna, puts it right, "They were jealous of the success of the fashion show. It's not easy to make eight super stars show stoppers of a single show." But Salman Khan did it for the cause of his sister Alvira Khan's collection, "The aim behind which was to get everybody talking about the collection. And I can hear people doing that." It took Ashley and his team two-month time to conceptualise the entire line.

Patta, portraits & palettes
A meeting with some award-winning artists from across the country gives insights into various traditions…
The sky-dining experience, craftsmen from all over the country, apna Surajkund… as all roads are leading to Kalagram these days, one cannot help but make a visit in search of something 'rare'. And, our search at the First Chandigarh National Mela yields a meeting with a few Tanjore artists, the family from Madhubani, Bihar, who had done the Madhubani paintings on the walls of those makeshift huts and a rare patta chitra artists from Orissa.

An affair to remember
In the tricity, students from Germany and Taiwan share their incredible Indian experience
The criticising Joneses can keep finger on their lips. Whoever thought India was just about bullock carts, broken roads, powerless villages, slums, fractured infrastructure; these eight don’t. In the tricity, under the youth exchange programme of Rotary International, the young ambassadors from Germany share their affair with incredible indelible India.

In tune
Sony India expands its Walkman® Video MP3 player family with the new NWZ-S540 and the NWZ-E440 series – promising superior audio and visual entertainment on-the-go with enhanced Sony audio technologies.

Spade work
Damage control
You did it right. You brought the fruit plans from a reliable source and planted it in pre-dug and filled pits. The plant was planted following all the recommended practices. Can you relax now? No, now is the time when you will have to do work. In fact, there is a new introduction in your family and the ‘child’ has to be treated with the same tender care.

Myth of the week
Turning a leaf

Scrap me not!
From information on relationships to office news and reality show results, we wonder how much is too much on social networking sites 
Hey guys, I am on an extravagant holiday, the blinds of my cabin have gone for a wash, laughter challenge is a crying deal, guessed right the tall hunk is the Dadagiri winner, I thought Shah Rukh Khan was making a special appearance in Wanted, Guess Anu’s back with her ex ex……. there is space for just about any kind of information on the Tiwtter and Facebook. Ex flames, office gossip, malicious inside news, happening and non-happening parties, rock bands… there are coded scraps and tweets for every occasion. 

Twitter with care 
Gul Panag advises caution to celebrities using Twitter 
Bollywood actor Gul Panag, an avid user of the microblogging website Twitter, is of the opinion that celebrities should be cautious while using such social interfaces. The actress who is blogging live for Twitter from the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week which kicked off in New Delhi on Sunday, said that actors should avoid unwittingly revealing secret details about their films.

Geek SPEAK
Track record
Bunking school and sneaking out to parties wouldn’t be easy, for your folks at home might have arranged for a GPS to track your moves
With the help of the new solar powered angels, which fly above us as space parents, one can now accurately track where your child is with the help of the Global Positioning systems. GPS, is becoming an increasingly popular tool that parents use to track their children at any given moment. Utilising a number of satellites, GPS is known world over to help you get places, track-stolen cars, and many more things.

Haute pick
Hard to beat

GizmOH!
Where to draw the line 
What is the kind of information that you wouldn’t want people to share on social networking sites?
I wouldn’t want anyone share information about what is happening at there workplace. This is not right ethically as well as professionally. Besides, it can land a colleague or your boss into trouble. Yes, it is okay to express about how you feel at your office, whether you like it or not. But, there should be no scraps or tweets about your colleagues, boss and their behaviour.

Bard bard dekho u u u u u With a smile on his face and melody in his voice, this folk artiste plays his instrument at the Chandigarh National Craft Mela. Lifestyle Photo: Pradeep Tewari