Designed to please Some designer studios in the city promise exclusivity at an affordable price So you want the exact look featured in the recent Vogue, Harper Bazaar, Femina or the other universally acknowledged fashion bibles of the world? Huh! No big deal, just need investment of a few lakhs on that one dress to make you a fashionista. What? Like it’s a newsflash …flaunting a designer dress comes at a price. Even if the price is more than your accumulated annual salary! But hey, where there is a will, there is a way. If you crave for that designer touch in your wardrobe, then here are some solutions. — Photo: Vinay Malik

Aspire high On the face of it, the ambition of staying happy looks very achievable. All one needs is a decent bank balance and happiness would follow. “Had money been the only criterion for happiness, there wouldn’t be so many divorces or other family issues,” says Neepa Arora, founder-member of Aspiration Club. Members of the Aspiration Club perform a skit — Photo: Vinay Malik

Right steps With movie critics already scrutinising her performance, Sonam is definitely the new girl on the block and already a style icon as well You getting me’…she winds up every single sentence with these three words. So very teenager-like! She makes no effort to hush those munching noises as she digs into an eatable. Over the phone, she sounds like a girl excited to tell the world how much she likes being on her own.

Face of the year Even as the campus session has just begun, the list of qualities required for the respective department representatives is already out The posters are pasted, the session’s begun; here’s something that’s as preliminary as perhaps the timetable and the new session - the chase to be the face of the department. Posters of student leaders — Photo: Vinay Malik

Family fissures
A new psychology study has found that unhappy families, are unhappy in two distinct ways, and the dual pattern of such unhealthy relationships leads to a host of specific difficulties for children during their early school years. The three-year study examined relationship patterns in 234 families with six-year-old children.

Browse through Of course, like in any other literary warehouse, what you see is books, books and books; but like the colourful new age libraries it’s all very easy on the eye rather than heavy. There are sections and segments probably as many as the volumes, but what’s missing is the stereotypical grey interiors, tomes bound in similar looking hard covers. Avid readers at the Brower-8 — Photo: Vinay Malik

Musical High

Bollywood actors Neil Nitin Mukesh and Deepika Padukone at the music launch of Yash Raj's upcoming film Lafangey Parindey at Yash Raj Studio in Mumbai on Monday. — PTI

SMOKING SIGNALS
Teenagers’ exposure to cigarette advertising at retail outlets substantially increases the odds that they will start smoking soon. Students who visited such cigarette stores on a regular basis were at least twice as likely to try smoking as those who visited infrequently, a study conducted by researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine said.

Not so social!
A latest cyber study has found that more than half of Australian parents with children using online social networking services like Facebook and Twitter said the services are distracting them from their studies. According to the latest Cyber-safety Research Report commissioned by Telstra Australian children using social networking services are getting distracted from their studies.

Helping hand Hamari Kaksha, a voluntary organisation, is engaged in imparting education to underprivileged children and empowering women Life laughs at you when you are unhappy, life smiles at you when you are happy, but life salutes you when you make others happy." These lines are apt to describe Dr Anuradha Sharma and Sarika Tiwari, and their brainchild — Hamari Kaksha — a voluntary organisation engaged in imparting education to underprivileged children and empowering women.

London dreams While most people believe dreams never come true, Lux consumers will now be forced to think otherwise. Lux recently announced a unique initiative for its consumers - the superstar offer. The offer gives an opportunity to consumers to meet Bollywood's star couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in London besides a discount of Re 1, 3 or 5 off on the next purchase of Lux soaps.

Winners of the contest celebrate

One for the road
Fiat India unveiled its latest offering in the premium hatchback segment - Fiat Grande Punto 90HP Multijet - in Chandigarh on Tuesday. Armed with a 1.3 litre multi-jet engine, powered by a variable geometry turbocharger, the car is set to be India's most powerful diesel hatchback.

Road to success
Akshay starrer Khatta Meetha takes a dig at corruption
After tickling the funny bones of their fans with Hera Pheri Garam Masala and Bhool Bhulaiyaa, the hit pair of director Priyadarshan and actor Akshay Kumar is back for the sixth time with yet another light-hearted outing, Khatta Meetha, which releases Friday.