Ifs and guts
Get busy living or get busy dying, Shabbir Ahluwalia and Abhishek Kapoor undoubtedly zero down on the former 
Fighting fears, walking an extra mile, pushing our capabilities and capacities to test, discovering oneself through experiences, crossing hurdles… exercises that we do everyday or in a lifetime for sure. The drill seems exciting and motivating when someone else does it, and if there are 13 good looking men struggle, compete and kick their inhibitions outside the goalpost. Oh! We so love it. So, when the fighters from Khatron ke Khiladi Season 3, Shabbir Ahluwalia and Abhishek Kapoor, sit down to share their experiences in the city on Thursday, we lap it up.

Conceive this
Changed lifestyle has taken a toll on fertility. But solutions are easy
Modern lifestyle, long and odd working hours, excessive intake of coffee, junk food, professional ambitions, late marriages have taken its toll on fertility, both male and female. To apprise people about the fallout of this changed lifestyle and the need to change it, Dr Pooja Mehta and Dr Pooja Gandhi, both consultant gynaecologist and infertility expert at Fortis Bloom IVF Centre, Mohali interacted with media on Thursday.

Country cuisine
Now have a whiff of English countryside at the newly-opened heritage English boutique
Chandigarh is boring no more, especially when it comes to food. Shedding the tags of a typical Punjabi tadka territory, we have increased and improve our appetite for international flavours. So, what's new on the menu? The best from the English cookbook!

Taste of time
Yes we know it, we have heard all about, it's called the global phenomenon. Whether it is styling in clothes or hair, music or films, theatre or art, or food, nothing has been left untouched by it. The segment, which has prepared various other delicacies from one platter 'global', is indeed the hotel industry. The newly-opened Kava fine dinning, club and executive lounge presents in a distinctive taste and style a good mix international and local flavours.

Mobile moves
MCC Group, a service based national sales and distribution company across channels like Imaging, Electronics, IT and Telecom, forays into the mobile handset business with the launch of its new exciting range of Mobile phones led by the Jumbo i9, Crystal i10, RS 8, S10, thump i11 and T9X in the Indian market. The flagship model 'Jumbo i9' with a standby time of 45 days packed with bluetooth, GPRS and WAP, will prove to be revolutionary for the mobile handset market. 

Spiritual diet
There are books on women empowerment, health management, human philosophy, inspirational titles, ayurveda, life histories, biographies, mythology, human empowerment, among the major chunk of religious books. Perhaps, they tangentially form part of the religion.

Side Lanes
THE BURRA MEM
The chai bagaan or tea garden is quite a different arena as compared to the Chai Mem's personal creation. While the planter deals with his beloved two leaves and a bud, he is a stranger to his wife's garden at the bungalow. His only contribution are the maalis, who never seem to be enough. Dalsingpara had four for the sprawling front lawns, innumerable potted plants and flowerbeds, and three for the kitchen baari. When I married Oz he was the senior-most manager in the Nedeem Group of Octavius Steel and I became a Burra Memsahib. My first mistake was to transfer Budhwa from the front to the back. 

Record breaking
The third season of action adventure show Fear Factor - Khatron Ke Khiladi 3, hosted by Bollywood diva Priyanka Chopra, has beaten the opening ratings of the previous two editions.TAM media research findings say that the launch episode of the show saw a 26 percent jump in ratings over last year, which were 4.4. Thanks to the show, the Colors Channel saw an increase in overall reach - from 18.4 percent last year to 19.2 per cent this year. 

No comparisons, please!
Bollywood actors Abhishek Bachchan and Manoj Bajpai are playing the same character in two different films. Comparisons are inevitable, but the Zubeidaa' star says that there is no reason to weigh his portrayal against that of the former. 

Chill pill 
Bollywood women directors prepare for winter release
The winter holidays are usually a time for two big actors or filmmakers to clash at the box office. But it's different this time, with two women directors - Farah Khan and Bhavna Talwar - set to vie for audience attention. Farah and Talwar will battle it out when their films Tees Maar Khan and Happi respectively hit the screens in December. This is the first time this year that two woman-directed films will release the same day, December 24.

Scripting the drama
Noted playwright and director Atamjit couldn’t agree more and deems that the basic texture and frame of theatre is provided by a playwright. Rather he adds that if theatre has to be a meaningful activity, a large part in creation of that meaning rests with the playwright. Actually, he attributes the ‘meaningfulness of theatre’ as the major reason why there is a dearth of good playwrights in the country and in Punjabi in particular. 

Creative zone
Write note
“Life is a mingled web of rainbow and romance, of death and deprivation, but a miracle to be celebrated and sung about,” feels Sukhchain Singh Bhandari, an arms dealer by profession. “God gifts a writer only a desire, imaginative vigour and power of expression; but it’s the predestined situation and circumstances that shape the sensibility and potential of a writer,” says Bhandari.

A minister with a difference
It took 30 years for Puducherry Home Minister E Valsaraj to make into reality his "childhood dream" of holding an exhibition of his paintings. Valsaraj was a happy man as he held his first exhibition in the national capital where he received kudos from none other than his boss and Congress President Sonia Gandhi. The six-day exhibition 'Images of Eternity' that gives a glimpse into life in South India was inaugurated by Vice President Hamid Ansari in the presence of Gandhi.

Petra revived
Conservation experts almost gave up when they first saw the severely damaged wall paintings they had come to rescue in the ancient city of Petra.

Showering stars