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Last call of Hoopoe
For arts’ sake
Mel-function
In the right company
Launch pad?
On a song
The dragon girl
Knot now!
Music to the ear
Back to back thrill
Note it!
Lip service
Heart-to-heart
Rock ‘n’ roll
Moving on, alone
Friendly touch
No role model these
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Ever wondered what happened to that graceful bird strutting about in the lawns and flowerbeds, easing out worms with a forceps-like beak? Or that soft, musical hoo-po-po call wafting through a winter afternoon? But the hoopoe is dying a slow death in some obscure corner of Chandigarh's gardens. The culprit: Slow poisoning by pesticides and
weedicides.
A bit of yellow and two drops of orange, Som Dutt Sharma mixes the two colours well…till they change into crimson. Without taking note of us or the other two fellow artists, forming a semi-circle around him, he continues with his work and lends what we thought were final touches to the characters of his painting — Shakuntla and Dushyant.
Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson escaped without injuries after crashing his car while on a late night drive in Malibu.The Academy award-winning actor who is involved in a court battle with estranged girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva over domestic violence, crashed his $ 110,000 Maserati. Gibson lost control of his car on the rocky hillside of Malibu Canyon road on Sunday night, according to the California Highway Patrol
(CHP).
Bollywood beauty Preity Zinta who rang the famed NASDAQ bell on Tuesday, now dreams of listing her own company at the world's biggest stock exchange.
The Kal Ho Naa Ho star is only the third Indian actor to ring the bell, with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol being the first.
"Am invited 4 d opening bell ceremony at NASDAQ tue morning! Hope i can list 1 of my companies there
sumday! Now i'm excited (sic)," tweeted Zinta who is the co-owner of the IPL team 'Kings XI Punjab'.
Tamil actor Surya Sivakumar, who is debuting in Hindi cinema with Rakta Charitra says even though the film is a perfect launch vehicle for him in
Bollywood, he is not keen to go full throttle in B-town."I think Rakta Charitra is a perfect film for me in Hindi cinema. But I am not looking at making a full-fledged career in
Bollywood...I am not shifting my base here," Suriya, who has acted in Tamil movies like Kaakha Kaakha and
Ghajini, said. The 34-year-old actor also ruled out quitting Southern films for Bollywood."I have never pushed myself for Hindi cinema. If I get to do different roles that excite me then I will surely love to do Hindi movies. But I will not stop doing films down South," he said.
It is just the beginning of a long journey in showbiz for Indian Idol 5 winner Mynampati Sreeram Chandra and the budding singer says he would also love to venture into acting. "As of now I want to settle down in Bollywood as a singer, but I wouldn't mind taking up acting at some point in my career," Sreeram said.The 24-year-old singer took up music five years ago with the dreams of achieving international stardom one
day.
Little-known American actor Rooney Mara has clinched the coveted lead role in the The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, beating off competition from Hollywood biggies like Scarlett Johansson and Natalie
Portman. The 25-year-old brunette will play Lisbeth Salander, the pierced and tattooed lesbian hacker, opposite Bond star Daniel Craig, in the film adaptation of Stieg Larsson's best-selling trilogy.
Hollywood superstar George Clooney's representative has shot down reports that he has proposed to his girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis after she was spotted wearing a sparkling ring on her finger.
The Ocean's Eleven star, who has been dating the Italian model and TV presenter since last summer, sparked rumours he was heading to the altar when Canalis was snapped in Italy, smiling while waving her left hand in the air to show off her new piece of
jewellery.
While sharing his views on 'voice and vocal culture' at a school in the city last year, legendary ghazal singer Jagjit Singh said AIR, Chandigarh, broadcaster Vijay Vashishth was gifted with a voice richer in quality than his own! The comment surprised a few, but only those who had not heard that magical voice.
But instead of opting for a career in singing, Vashishth cultivated his voice to become an accomplished announcer at the AIR.
The members of 4x4 Off Roader Club (Regd.) returned from the Monsoon 4 Wheel Drive Challenge organised by North India Off road Club, New Delhi on August 14. The 20 member team returned from Gurgaon after driving through sandy, muddy, slushy and rocky terrains apart for few inclines and descents of various degrees. Sponsored by Michelin
tyres, the event was flagged off by Sanjay Paharia, an Off Road enthusiast from Leisure Valley
in Sector 29 Gurgaon.
So you've spent the times together, those stolen moments, stealing glances, holding hands, long drives, beautiful evenings, shared dreams, sweet nothings, early morning text messages or late night whispers over the phone…and suddenly a heartbreak followed by heartache. Those 'emotionally wounded' would agree there's a vacuum unexplainable, a void impossible to fill, a space that just has no substitute. Leaving the logic to the sane, 'getting over someone' isn't easy. In trickle some 'pearls of wisdom', some guy-to-guy talk, and some all girls advisory.
Research convention, online admission, graduation counselling, science congress, convocation…blah blah! But that's for the likes of those that are interested. A group of academic buildings and there are umpteen activities on. Picking on some interesting ones. A quick recee of the recent, more eventful, episodes around the campus… freshers' parties to be precise.
Cultural programme, singing, dancing, item songs, solos, duets, isn't it always the same each year, every year? For others that's where the appeal lies. "Our weekend
freshers' party was great fun.
The present day's masculine, hunky and stereotype superheroes are misleading for boys, researchers have said. Watching superheroes beat up villains may not be the best image for boys to see if the society wants to promote kinder, less stereotypical male behaviours, suggested psychologists "There is a big difference in the movie superhero of today and the comic book superhero of yesterday," said psychologist Sharon Lamb, professor of mental health at University of Massachusetts-Boston.
