CHANDIGARH INDEX


Finding her way
Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu, who loves to travel alone, shares her European experiences in her maiden book Adrift
In Amsterdam I had my bottom felt by a woman." This is one of the many anecdotes that pepper Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu's eminently readable travel book Adrift. Her maiden step in the literary world, it recounts her journey across Europe. Lest you make the Amsterdam experience a benchmark for more mirch masala let it be known that Puneetinder resisted all persuasion to spice up her first book. Of course, when she approached publishers with her manuscript she was asked to sex it up and fictionalise it.

Jumbo theory
"Our music draws inspiration from films, video games, contemporary composers, Roma music and original scores. Every performance is accompanied by video installations. The idea is to refresh the playlist for every show."
Music can be invented, re-invented, revived…and still there is more to explore. There can be infinite inspirations to make music and still there can be no reason to create a symphony. Okay, lets stop being over the top and come to the point.

Absolutely fit
Like there is a woman behind every man’s success, there is a fitness trainer behind those well-toned bodies in Bollywood

Shah Rukh Khan's six pack abs would have almost made it into some record book had our Ghajini boy not startled everyone with his eight ka punch! Just when we were thinking about macho Saif, John Abraham or Sanjay Dutt coming with a higher numerical configuration in the 'ab race', the dark horse of the industry Ajay Devgun flashed his pictures of a fabulous, well-toned body, sans the abs.

Shake a leg
Choreographer Fatima Khanam is set to open her dance academy in the city
Dance has never been a classroom subject. In fact, it has never been a subject. It has always been a way of life, a cultural activity, a passion and, well, a medium for entertainment, but never a subject. But Fatima Khanam is here to make that happen. Lets us introduce her as a choreographer for the past 10 years, who has taught corporates to shake a leg, made leggy models walk in rhythm at international fashion weeks, groomed beauty queens (Miss Punjanban on ETC) and judged reality shows, 'Nachle Yaara' on ETC as well). Oh and did we mention, assisted Farah Khan in Main Hoon Naa (that should have been the first on list).

Run for a cause
The invite has already been dispatched to students of Panjab University. Various engineering college students have been requested to join in.

Infosys team is all set to run at Sukhna on Sunday.

Watch out!
Akshaya Tritiya' (on May 16) is a day on which buying and wearing gold is considered auspicious. And if women can chose from the plenty of options available, Titan offers some stylish solutions for men. Their recently launched Nebula limited edition Calligraphy watches, crafted in solid 18K gold, are inspired from Devnagiri and have beautiful dials. You can pick from bare-gold bracelets, staid leather straps or diamond-studded ones as well.

Watt’s the matter?
Hollywood actor Naomi Watts is struggling to juggle her duties as a mother-of-two with her career and feels she is 'failing' at both the jobs. The King Kong star returned to work just weeks after giving birth to her second child, son Samuel, in December 2008, and shot new drama Mother and Child but fears she is coming up short on both aspects of her life. "Every single day, I second-guess myself as a mother. I chose to be a mum.

The last fang
The last of the Twilight saga will be out in 2011 as Hollywood studio behind the hit teen vampire series on Wednesday set a November 18, 2011, release date for the film version of the last of the four novels. But no one knows if Breaking Dawn will be made into one film or two. The Twilight movies from independent studio Summit Entertainment are based on the hugely popular books of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. The books and movies tell of a teenager named Bella Swan who falls in love with the immortal vampire, Edward Cullen. The last film, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, made nearly $710 million at worldwide box offices after its November 2009 release.

Battle over
Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen has surrendered legal custody of his two children with ex-wife Denise Richards. The Two and A Half Men star has been embroiled in a bitter custody battle over daughters — six-year-old Sam and four-year-old Lola Rose — since divorcing Richards in 2006. The pair called a truce by celebrating New Year's Eve together with an intimate family gathering at the actress' home in Los Angeles.