Fringe benefit
What’s next in fashion? Keep it on the edge, say expert designers
Fashion changes in the blink of an eye. And since we love living life in the fast lane, keeping up with it is not an option but a condition. Thanks to the umpteen fashion weeks, the condition just turned better. New fashion week, new trends and new style statements! The recently concluded Chandigarh Fashion Week too left its mark, as much on the ramp as off it. And the trend that made its presence felt was fringes.

God speed
Samrat Yadav and Khushwant Randhawa do the city proud by winning the off-roading contest at the Gascoyne Dash, Australia
Restlessness - with youngsters you can never be sure how they use this attribute. Either they go berserk with it, doping, shooting, rash driving, or they bundle up the entire restlessness and pour it into a skill. Gladly, we meet up a 22-year-old who is from the second category; who lives on a different high, has found a goal (too early though) and is racing for it!

Show Time
Producer, director and writer Harry Baweja, the maker of films like Dilwale, Imtihan, Diljale, Deewane, Karz - The Burden of Truth, Qayamat, Main Aisa Hi Hoon, Teesri Aankh and Love Story- 2050, is ready to take centrestage with his team Flying Turtles Films first big show Ganga Ki Dheej, which premiers on Sahara One Television on November 15. Harry believes television gave an opportunity to a lot of people and the growth rate of TV industry is great.

Harry Baweja

Palate pleasure
After 15 years, I binged on junk food for Guzaarish
Hrithik Roshan, known as a hot bod of Indian showbiz for whom staying away from junk food is a way of life, bent his rules for Guzaarish. He also performed what he calls his career's toughest dance sequence for the love story.

I, ME, Myself

Singer Ricky Martin poses with a Spanish language copy of his autobiography Me before a book signing in Los Angeles November 9, 2010. — Reuters

How bug-ging
Pop queen Madonna is the latest celebrity hit by New York's bug problem-her home is full of lice. Like a virgin hitmaker revealed one of her kids brought the creepy problem home and now she can't get rid of them. 

Trust him
Rapper Eminem has admitted that he has 'trust issues' with women and he needs to know himself first before letting others in. "I have trust issues - with women, friends, whatever," he said.

Live wire
Oscar-winning actor Gwyneth Paltrow is about to make her debut as a country music singer, but it seems she is getting weak in the knees at the thought of performing at the Country Music Awards (CMAs). Paltrow has admitted that she is a little bit nervous about her live performance.

We are the world, we are the children…
Twenty-five children will cycle to Delhi to remind the government about its promise to halve poverty by 2015
No matter whatever you say about our political leaders, they would never change when it comes to their five-year promises. They would invariably break them. We appreciate how religiously they follow this! Jokes apart. If this is the case, why do we need to wait for elections, to see the making and breaking of promises. To remind the government to deliver on their promise to halve poverty by 2015, as many 25 children will cycle on November 13 (The day the campaign wishes to mark as The Day Of The Depriving Child) and travel more than 250 km, from Chandigarh to Delhi, to create awareness on the same.

Getting vocal
I am too young to comment on the Gharana cults or traditional or contemporary music scene, but certainly there are more takers for Indian classical, or its lighter genres in vocal and instrumental streams, now," opines young vocalist Shampa Ghosh. In the city for a Baithak concert at the Pracheen Kala Kendra, she shares her views.

Art-i-fact
Timeless appeal
Tradition, most of us think is defunct, passé and has little relevance in the modern day world where we have to deal with contemporary issues. ‘All tradition is merely the past’. So professed Jiddu Krishnamurti. Yet one tradition that not only continues to live in its robust form but has also been widely and extensively used in modern theatre is of folk theatre. Interestingly, while in other countries folk theatre came first, in India classical theatre gave way to folk tradition.

Frozen delight
Cocoberry, India's first premium frozen yogurt chain, has opened up its third outlet in the city to offer the ultimate frozen dessert experience. The new outlet is located in Sector 35 market.

Side Lanes
THE DAILY DUPE
When a colleague's wedding was slated at Jalandhar, I jumped at the idea. 'Jullundur,' as it was called in my teenage days, was home to both my paternal and maternal grandparents.