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Where music is life
When one’s aim is clear, nothing else matters. No material possessions or wants or recognition is important then, at least this is how Tochi Raina perceives life.
With around a dozen hits in Bollywood movies, including Pardesi for Dev D and Gal Mitthi Mitthi for
Aisha, Tochi considers his music as sadhna. He left home in Patiala to learn music from Pandit Vinod Kumar in Delhi.
Sentimental Score
The Economist will be in a better position to explain this trend using all available equations and proportions, but for someone who likes regional cinema in Punjab this can be summed up in one word — ‘fantabulous’. Every second either sees an announcement or launch of a Punjabi movie and the number keeps growing!
Festive flavour
The season of festivities is here, so how can we not talk about festive fare! Beginning with Navratras that has almost all hotels and restaurants prepare some satvik food for the devout, the days of 'fun, food and frolic' go ahead with some more festivals in line.
And cooking up some delectable meals for the festive days ahead, restaurants have their menu cards sizzled up for the festive fare.
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Set realistic goals
Aerobic exercise is believed by many scientists to be the single best predictor of weight maintenance. You can even lose weight without exercise by reducing your caloric intake, but it takes a regular dose of exercise to keep your weight off. Somewhere between 30 to 40 minutes of moderate intensity exercise five days per week is probably the right way to do it.
Rhythmic moments with music which include aerobic, dancing and stepper moments, swimming, walking, climbing steps, cycling, all the cardio machines like treadmill, stair climber and many other activities are all examples of aerobic or cardio activities.
Getting started on an aerobic exercise programme? My suggestion is to keep it simple, practical and realistic. Don't try to make up for years of inactivity all at once.
Canvas of glory
Last fifteen days have been really tough for Tirthankar Bhattacharya. An art curator and chairman of the Department of Art History and Visual Arts, he took up the onus of putting up an art exhibition to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the department. The task at hand, he knew wasn't going to be easy, but the magnitude of the challenge he realised better after he started working on it.
Master Chef
Molten madness
Lava cakes have taken over and oozed into the culinary world like the molten burst from Mount Vesuvius! We delight in digging our spoon into a visibly firm cake, only to release a warm velvety chocolate filling, spewing out all over the platter! Some molten-cake recipes call for simply under baking the batter so the middles stay lava-like, but mini cakes get done so quickly it's best to give them a filling that won't set up at all. These richly flavoured morsels are guaranteed to stay moist and gooey, owing to a simple square of chocolate, pushed into the middle. The procedure is a bit fiddly but well worth the end result!
One-stop shop
Craft Bazaar 2012 organised by Eastern Handicrafts & Handloom Development Corporation Limited brings an array of stuff to Chandigarh. On at Exhibition Ground-34, this has a selection of cane furniture. Starting from Rs 8000, it goes up to Rs 45,000 for more ornate seating.
The USP from North East is of course Muga silk saris in its golden-beige colour with colourful borders .
Of sleeping babus & awakened middle class
As a rule, intellectuals lock themselves in an ivory tower unmindful of others for whom their concern and academic discourse is meant for. However, eminent writer Gurcharan Das revels in being a public intellectual, in short one who is easily accessible to public.
Not only is his writing peppered with metaphors that common man can relate to but his lectures too are marked by an eloquence that is as lucid as profound.
So much so that he makes even the 'dry' concepts like growth and economics sound simple and interesting.
Star track
Chatter box
First-day-first show
The year ahead
Astro Turf
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