Flavours of the land Despite the burgers, pizzas and pastas, Punjabi cuisine is still the most preferred. Ashima Sehajpal finds out how it keeps up with competition Let as many pizza houses, burger queens enter the Punjabi domain…the cuisine of the land will remain as popular as ever. There’s no debating this, just a fact about Chicken Tikka Masala proves it.    Virsa at Mohali — Photo: Vicky Gharu

Behind the glitz
Suicides by high profile models continue to shock the fashion industry
Remember the sole reason behind Madhur Bhandarkar making Fashion? No it wasn’t to give Priyanka Chopra’s dwindling career a big boost or to promote his obsession with finding dark corners of high society, but to prove once again - all that glitters is not gold.

That first impression Student parties at the Punjab University are on with the ‘wooing’ exercise much before the session has actually begun Come June, come admission chaos and there are documents to be attached, forms to be filled and formalities to be fulfilled. Perfect platform for political homework!             — Photo: Vinay Malik

Poet by chance
For Aayush Gopal, poetry was always on cards. A book wasn't
An urge to doodle impromptu emotions on the back of a notebook took the shape of a book. Again, that was impromptu. "Playing Flipside wasn't meant to be a book. It was just a collection of poems written over a period of time," Aayush Gopal Dawra, class XIIth engineering student, S. D. Public School, speaks of his book.

Bugatti or Beetle?
The stylish and affordable Volkswagen Beetle is the most wanted car among women, while men prefer a brawny GM truck or a Bugatti, according to a study of 13 million U.S. vehicle registrations over the past two years. The study was carried out by Truecar.com, the California-based auto pricing information company.

Diminishing marginal utility
A new study has revealed that although older adults watch more TV than children or teenagers, it doesn't do them much good either. Researchers at the Stein Institute for Research on Aging and Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine asked participants how they spent their time and describe their experience of everyday activities.

Just text, don’t talk
Children should text rather than talk on their mobile phones, Australia's radiation safety watchdog has said, noting that a child's skull is thinner and could absorb more radiation.

Art for the world
For world peace and against global warming, these are the only two things that we need to work for right now, we've decorated our drawing rooms enough, worked for the money too," Barinder, painting teacher at Navodaya Vidalaya, Muktsar, minces no words.

Breaking stereotypes For an actor, irrespective of the medium, the biggest challenge is to break the stereotypes and give the audience something different with every shot. Sachin Shroff, television actor who is starring in a new show on Imagine Rakta Sambhandha, faces the same challenge, but does he also have a solution? (L) Sachin Shroff with the cast and crew of Rakta Sambhandha

Remembering the poet
The city of Panipat is not just known for the three battles, but also for three Sufi and literary scholars — Bu Ali Qalanader, Hali Panipati and Sayed Ashoor Kazmi," says litterateur KL Zakir at a tribute-seminar on Kazmi on Tuesday. The gathering mourned Kazmi's sudden demise in Birmingham recently.

You've got mail! Just when we thought mini-laptops with their one-stop solutions are an answer to all our problems, Nokia comes up with easy solutions for e-mailing, turning the mobile into a handy PC wherein you can easily create an icon and enter the world of mailing. Raju Sastry, Head Messaging Services and Chandan Dang, General Manager, North Nokia

Denim dazzler Levi's unveiled its autumn-winter collection 2010 at Tagore theatre on Monday evening where fashion buffs from city converged on to grab the latest in store that the brand had to offer. The event was supported My Dare Club - tricity's first complete, family entertainment club, which is slated to be launched soon by ace cricketer Harbhajan Singh. The much-awaited Levi's autumn winter collection showcasing started off with the heritage '501' Denim from the theme 'Live Unbuttoned', and proceeded through autumn to heavy winter wear.

— Photo: Manoj Mahajan

Cost cutting
Mi-Fone (BVI) Ltd announces the launch of Mi-Q - a new range of low cost QWERTY mobile phones, which are affordable, stylish and a quality competitive mobile to the Blackberry. "They have often been hampered by the lack of cost-effective yet quality and technologically advanced handsets that enable them to stay easily connected considering the many challenges in ensuring decent connectivity", said Alpesh Patel, CEO Mi-Fone.

Old vs Bold Yesteryears actresses were gold, today's are just bold, says Jackie Shroff For Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff, old is gold! The actor believes that today's actresses pale in comparison and "lack the elegance, beauty and sensuality" of yesteryears stars. "The new brigade of actresses lack elegance, beauty and sensuality that was instilled in yesteryears stars like Nanda or Sadhana.

Role call
She laments the lack of women-centric roles in Indian cinema these days and actress Kirron Kher says she envies her husband, actor Anupam Kher who gets the chance to play pivotal roles in many a serious film.

Regional bounty
Big B in Ooty to shoot for Malayalam film on Kandahar episode
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, back after a refreshing holiday with family in London, will be facing the camera to shoot for a Malayalam film based on the 1999 Kandahar Air India flight hijack episode with Mohan Lal in Ooty.

Safe with Saif British director wants to make film with Saif British director Jon Harris, who had edited critically acclaimed Hindi film Being Cyrus, is keen to make a movie with Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan. His The Decent 2 is releasing here July 2 and while he was promoting the film, he was asked a question about one actor with whom he would like to work with and why, said a press statement.

Pick & choose She may have had only two releases in her two-and-half-year-long career, but actress Sonam Kapoor is not perturbed about being left behind in the Bollywood rat race. The 25-year-old daughter of veteran actor Anil Kapoor says that even though her third film I hate Luv Storys opposite Imran Khan, is an important film for her, she is not nervous or tense about it's box office performance. Her debut film Saawariya (2007) and Delhi-6 (2009) did not do well at the box office.