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Getting bitten by the wanderbug is one thing and penning down one's traveling experiences is quite another. We find out what it takes to be a good travel writer
V.S. Naipaul's An Area of Darkness sums it up. Perhaps, he had to pen down the travelogue detailing his acute sense of disillusionment that the author experienced on his first visit to his native land. Perhaps, the same for Alexander Frater, when he crosses through India during the monsoon and bares it all in the classic Chasing the Monsoon. Mark Twain too couldn't keep all to himself while writing Life on the Mississippi.

Confessions
In the entertainment industry, success is usually defined as what sells the most. So, we have dozens of Punjabi songs being released by the day with random faces dancing on tracks sung by unknown faces. Identity crisis, piracy, plagiarism, exploitation by Bollywood, the problems are plenty, solutions nowhere to be seen.

Classic example
The city witnesses more and more youngsters taking interest in classical music and dance
The record audience participation witnessed in the three-day 40th Bhaskar Rao Nritya and Sangeet Sammelan and the recent classical music concerts like “ Aei Basant Bahar, Rituraj Mehfil , Triveni Sabha or Baithak is certainly a tribute to the grandeur of Indian classical music. This genre, once eclipsed by the lighter folk and pop, is making strides to recapture its lost glory.

Chemical fun
Post Soch, Patchwork, Goonj, Jhankaar, Archo, it’s Cyanide! Yet another three-day fiesta from the stable of Panjab University, University Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, to be precise. Enter day two, it’s early in the afternoon and the mood’s yet to pick up. There’s a huge pavilion, stage, with microphones in place, a couple of stalls are empty and action and events spread over.

A Twit face
Wills Lifestyle, ITC's premium fashion brand, has announced that renowned jewellery designer and one of the most active celebrities on Twitter, Farah Khan Ali, is the 'Wills Twitter Face' at the forthcoming Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, India's foremost fashion and trade event.Wills Lifestyle has initiated this association with @FarahKhanAli to explore the platform of new-age media to engage with the patrons of WIFW in an interesting fashion. It is an effort taken towards striking an instant connect with its patrons and followers of the fashion week.

Spade work
Fruitful talk
There is age-old saying ‘boya perh babool ka, aam kahan se khaye’ means how you can expect mango when you had sown thorny babool’. We all know about it but make the same mistake repeatedly. There is this dire need to educate gardeners about the uselessness of planting the fruit plants obtained from any and every source.

On the FAST lane
For most youngsters, keeping Navaratra fasts means double bonanza — pleasing the Almighty and keeping in shape
Nine days of fasting are back and so does the opportunity to make amends with your religious self. Prayers, observing fast, enjoying the selective platter, performing kanjacks and well, the status of being the ones who are doing so! For some, the Navratras may be a religious celebration and a ritual that our moms have been following with full dedication and devotion, but for most youngsters, the motivation changes from being religious to being diet conscious.