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Like a flowing river
Some corner in the mind needed cleansing; some forceful yet vague thoughts had to be aligned, and certain realisations were allowed to seep in…. actor-cum-screenplay and dialogue writer Piyush Mishra had to put himself to litmus test.
Letter comes home
Tagore is Bengal and Bengal is Tagore. Try placing the Noble Laureate’s works in a Punjabi setting and the result can fray tempers, raise hackles and irk sensibilities.
But call it the right to interpret, creative freedom or the beauty of Tagore’s universality…. when celebrated theatre person Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry created a Punjabi play based on Tagore’s short story A Wife’s Letter, it not only became the talk of the festivals where it was staged but also a subject of seminar at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles.) That it has taken more than a year and a half to reach home that is Chandigarh where the director lives and draws her energies from, however, is a different matter.
success mantra
Vision wise
Sitting at the bakery café restaurant Oven Fresh in sector-26, Bobby Garg, the director of this place is lost in the menu. He sifts through the leaves, makes a few notes, looks around and then goes back to the menu again. Looking for something to order, we wonder! He laughs, “I am looking what more I can do with menu,” he looks at us. “Business is not moving ahead of others, it is about improving my own self,” shares the director of Oven Fresh, director of Leena Mogre’s Specialized Gym Fitness and director of SOBE Finman an IT venture management company.
Changing with times…
In the six decades that eminent Punjabi poet Surjit Patar, recipient of Padma Shri, has been writing, literary scene has undergone a huge change. In Chandigarh, for the Literature Festival, he shares his insight on that with us, “When I started writing, there was a hope of having a better world which was very much considered achievable. Today, not only that hope is dimmed but the system itself is being questioned. Old concepts are giving place to new and it’s time for rethinking.”
Hip hop hurrah!
It all started with the Real Slim Shady and everyone since then has been paying attention, standing up and taking a note. Not that hip hop didn’t exist before, just that nothing put the spotlight on the culture and music originating in African American communities in the 1970s in New York City as much as Eminem’s cult song that came 12 years ago.
Young Voice
Samiksha Sufi is 10-year-old and she is already out with her own music album Tu Hai Sab Ka Pita.
Daughter of singer Sufi Balbir, Samiksha has sung a duet with her dad before. But Tu Hai… is her first recorded album.
All pumped-up
It’s that time of the year when you just can’t wait to stop wearing your warm-weather wardrobe and along with it unwrap your pretty feet from layers of wool. Well, it’s time to make your feet happy and try the trendy footwear for the spring/summer 2012. And first and the foremost footwear trend for the season is that we see a shift from rounded toes to pointed ones. Though it’s not a sweeping trend as rounded toes are still on shelves, but it is mostly in sandals and booties. Another hot style to look out for is the metallic toes.
Stress buster
Learn to be HAPPY
There are so very many events in life that are
constantly keeping us hinging on the stress threshold. We learn to
create habitual thought patterns which can help overcome some of these
stressors or they can even deepen some hurts and generate more stress in
us. Any which way, they give us a very clear picture of where the stress
is coming from.
Weight watch
Lunch break
To meet our daily requirements the meal consumption has been divided into breakfast, lunch and dinner.
An average normal individual requires approximately 40kcal/kg/day.
Star track
Title tale
John’s thoughtful product
Identical issues
Waiting for more
The charmer
Soul attachment
Hush hush about him
Bonding well
Wanna be a vampire
Not just a dog!
Kalki loves being natural
Brawns and brains
Hello? Is it me, you are looking for…
Chatter box
Rumour mills
Say cheese!
Mutual admiration society
No problem in playing mother
Meaningful television
Action packed presence
Astro turf
The year ahead
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