Live wire
Good music is an integral part of fine dining. And when the music comes from a live band, there is nothing like it!
Something about live! Matches to music to meals, what you see is what you get. Just as a performer is better than the speaker. Just as a guitar being strummed right in front is way better than the recorded disc rotating on its own, playing through the speakers. Live band concept remains, though the reasons somewhat change. A quick round up of who's playing what in the city circles.

Jasleen. Photo: Pradeep Tewari

You can work it out!
Have a little fun as you workout," is the message that city girl Meghna Virk Bains wants to give though her latest book Fitness Programme for Urbanites.

Chronicles of City Beautiful
Chandigarh has evinced interest of authors from the world over. This duo, however, wants to account not the origin but the future of the city
India is so rich, not only in terms of heritage but also resources — natural and human. Coming from West, I want to share my perspective of the worth of this country that its inhabitants are largely unaware of,” says Patsy Craig, an artiste with keen interest in music, painting and architecture.

Play ground
An artiste with a deep aesthetic sense and dedication, theatre actor director Gaurav Sharma is fast maturing as a young theatre exponent. Credited with over 80 plays as an actor and 50 as director, including light sound spectacles and street theatre, this 24-old-year city lad has carved a niche for himself in theatre. Besides, Gaurav has played important roles in serials like Hostel ek Zindagi, Nai Museebat, Meharbaan Kaise Kaise for Doordarshan and a Punjabi film titled Sardari. But Gaurav now plans to showcase his potential in the UK.

Bon Appetit
Mazedaar mango
The searing summer heat has departed for good, making place for floods and communication crisis! If you were planning to travel out of the city, don't even think about it unless you want to walk all the way there in Wellingtons and a raincoat! Torrential showers bring relief, bringing with it the assurance of water in our taps! When the clouds lift and drift away, a sultry humidity envelopes us like an enforced sauna! So, what brings happiness in such steamy mausam? The mauj of the delectable mango! When I spot the elongated, orange-fleshed 'dussehri' in the market, I actually see RED!

Green warrior
Dolly Dhillon Gujral believes in involving masses in her tree plantation drive
Monsoon ki masti lo, choo na sake patjhar aisa lo ashirwad…are the lines out of a poem that, as a blessing, Dolly Dhillon Gujral ties to each sapling she plants. This dedicated environmentalist recently got an appreciation award for planting as many as 1,800 trees during the last monsoon. "We use trees from the beginning of our life till our last rites. Each human being in a lifespan consumes close to 100 trees, be it for the purpose of fruits, medicines or wood. Isn't it our duty to give back to nature?" she questions. As for her, she is giving back for sure.
Photo: Pradeep Tewari