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Enigma of 786
LOOKING back, Amitabh Bachchan owes a lot to the badge he wore in Coolie. Billa number 786 not only gave him super power and a second lease of life on screen, it also ultimately helped him survive Puneet Issar’s near fatal blow during the shooting. And thus lived the angry young man, long enough to be the onscreen romantic old man. And, in the process, gave us something to muse over — the power of the holy number.
Bollywood has been eulogising this number, bringing it out of religious context into the common man’s purview. Didn’t we all recently see Veer Pratap Singh, aka Shah Rukh, as convict no. 786 while languishing in a Pak jail in Veer Zaara? Well, he got lucky too, to be reunited with his sweetheart even though at a later stage in life. Well, for argument’s sake, one would say that anything is possible in Bollywood. But ask a believer what 786 means to him and it is a different story altogether. And trust us, the city has it’s share of believers who would give up their right hand to incorporate this number in their daily life. And so, it finds its way to car number plate, telephone numbers, email ids and even as ATM passwords! We probed, trying to satiate our curiosity as to what — apart from the obvious — can trigger such a desire in people. The answers were varied — most stemmed from religious beliefs, some associated it with good luck and a few are even using it as a secular tag! At least, this is what we believed till we met Punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, owner of 10 cars with a 786 plate. He attributes his desire for his number to his cultural heritage. Well, in case one mistakes his cultural sensibility for superstition, this history honours student of St Stephen’s College-Delhi and an honours in law from the University of London, it is not so. “Islam has been part of Punjabi culture for centuries. I grew up revering this number as any other culturally-rooted Punjabi and when I started owning things like scooters and cars I opted for this number,” says Manpreet. Meet Anwar-ul-Haq, a prominent Muslim leader from Sector 35. Everything he owns that has a number ends with 786. His cars — a Mercedes, a Laura, an Endeavour and a Honda City — all bear the number. So do his landline and mobile phones. “I have gone through the drill to get these numbers,” says Haq. Like to get the right number for his latest car, Laura, he first brought a scooter with that number which he later got transferred to his car! “I get many calls asking me if I would be interested in selling my mobile number. And the calls are from non-Muslims too,” says Haq. His wife, Jannat Jahan-ul-Haq too is a staunch believer of the magical number. “It’s auspicious and means to me what Om would mean to a Hindu or Ek Onkar to a Sikh,” she says. Fashion photographer Seema Khutten has a different reason behind adding the 786-extension to her email id. “I am not religious in the literary sense of the word. I use it because it is a holy number and best shows my secular streak,” she says. Nafis Ahmed, a businessman from Sector 45, made it his passion to collect currency notes with 786 in them. In three years flat, he has collected notes of denomination Re 1 to Rs 1,000! Apart from these, 786 is a part of his car and telephone numbers. “When there is a will, there is a way and I have been successful because I have a strong will to have this number,” says Nafis. There are other proud owners of the number — Inderjeet Kaur, Anuj Mahajan, Arshad Khan and many more — for whom having this number in their life becomes as important as eating and breathing. Their explanations differ, so do the reasons. But their collective belief find an outlet in sufi singer Hans Raj Hans’s voice, who admits of drawing his creative energy from the 786 taavez he wears around his neck: Meri tanhai main jab bhi tujhe pukara hai, ek sada aaye ki tu hamara hai, tu hamara hai, tu hamara
hai... The Connotation
786 is the total value of the letters of Bismillah
al-Rahman al-Rahim according to Abjad order. In the Indian subcontinent, Abjad numerals became quite popular. Some people — mostly in India and
Pakistan — use 786 as a substitute for Bismillah. They write the number to avoid writing the name of Allah or the Quranic ayah on ordinary papers. parbina@tribunemail. com
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We may have crammed sections of Chaucer’s poetry & Milton’s verse but nothing beats the mother tongue as a medium of expression, as Neha Walia finds out
Remember the sigh of wah that releases from our mouth when we see something beautiful or aur kya haal chaal, an easy way to say Hi. We just can’t get enough of it. And for all those who are very well versed with the dictionary of abuses, well nothing beats all that gaali galoch in our mother tongue. If this was not enough how about the slang, “my biwi goes mad with shopping or “come na, it’s getting late!” We can go on and on with it. With Gen Y gradually becoming more comfortable with it, it’s becoming a fad to verse in the language of the land. Well, khush khabari for those who couldn’t converse in shudh English. We wear it on our sleeves and are proud to do it too. Says Neeti Sharma, a student of GCG-11: “Not everybody is familiar with English. And it’s easy to converse in your mother tongue. Since we do it most of the times, we don’t realise when we add a desi touch while conversing.” Bilkul, we agree. And why not? Even if we boast of cramming every single word that Oxford dictionary flaunts, there are moments when that arre bhai or kya baat hai mixes with our so-called angrezi. It’s the spontaneity and the in build character of the mother tongue that makes it flow with our emotional expressions. Then of course, you don’t have to search for words when it comes to your mother tongue, the younglings are creating their own linguistics in form of Hinglish. And the more recent and snappy is the Gujarati, bambaiya and Punjabi editions of it (thanks to Bollywood). So don’t wonder when you hear somebody say, “Don’t make a bheja fry out of my brains yaar! Or I didn’t have my roti today?” Well accepted, this union of our matrabhasha with Queen’s language is not prominent only in our daily lingo but this khichadi of languages holds good in the virtual world too. Be it blogging or net chatting, we prefer talking in our ma tongue than English. So much so that we have even translated Hindi into English syllables. In love with the street side bhasha, it’s the trend of Hinglish that caught everyone on the wrong foot. So next time some yanked up dude with a heavy accent makes you feel complexed, don’t fret just give him a desi tadka of our very own Hinglish.
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Sunday Sunshine
IT’S a Sunday. And the very idea of a weekend sends across a lightening of pleasant thoughts, a drive to the hills, brunching out, visiting old pals or best of all- lazing around. Whatever the idea, everyone has a plan for a perfect weekend. And as life turns more than busy, the very idea of a weekend has altered. We share notes. “The idea of spending a Sunday at home is all so bizarre,” says Dheeraj Punj, vice president, Funcity. For Dheeraj, his weekend plans start from Saturday evening. “It’s been long since we followed the tradition of going to a hill station every weekend. More than a desired escape, this breaks the monotony of staying at home and rejuvenates energy levels.” In the business of hospitality, Dheeraj says: “Gone are the days when people would keep a Sunday for all pending works. Now they want to move out and explore. With the changing concept, I have both my resorts in Ramgarh and Dharampur packed on the weekends and people from Delhi come to spend a weekend. Add to that, people even have a monthly budget for outings these days.” Talk to women who are working 24/7 and they will tell a different story. “I run a beauty salon, so Sunday for me is a heavy working day and this includes long working hours too,” says Anju, owner, Styl Studio, Panchkula. Her idea of a chutti, she says, is to relax and spend time with the family. “Other than that, for me a real holiday is when I go out of the city,” she adds. For Anshul Malhotra, a BPO employee in Mohali, there is no such thing as a weekend. “When it comes to a holiday, I either spend it watching the day pass by or sleeping throughout the day. Night is the time when I move out and party hard.” With a changed concept and mindset, there is sure a change in the very idea of spending a weekend. Tells Cavita Taragi, director, career management cell, Chitkara: “It’s the idea of an extended weekend that has caught the fancy of people and most people take Saturday as the day to catch up with all pending work and Sunday remains to be a day for yourself.” Talking about the working couples, she says: “For working couples, Sunday is a day to chill out and do nothing at all. And this includes entertaining no guests and visiting no one, as this is the only day when you have time for yourself and your partner.” For Rishu, a telecom employee in Mohali, Sunday means a day to ease out his wife’s burden. “Most of us have similar kind of weekends but breaking the monotony, I and my wife try something different. Sunday is my day to cook and her rest, so I cook a wholesome brunch for her and then we either go out for a drive, shop around or just laze around till late evening and then go out for a quick dinner.”
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The Hunt
LAST time we met Mummyji Pammi Somal she was high on the success of her debut film as a director. After almost a year, we catch her again donning a different role — that of a prospective mom-in-lawji. So, she is back in the city again with daughter Jenny. This time, hunting for a girl to act opposite Garry Gill in her next project, Kab Se Sambhalle Rakha Hai Dill (the extra ‘l’s are for numerological reasons), and also a girl for son, Sonny. “I have spread the word among my friends and relatives and every time I get a call about some girl, I verify whether it is for Garry or my son,” says Pammi. She may not been successful yet, but the hunt is definitely on! This romantic comedy will be the launch pad for Garry, also from Punjab. Nothing new for Pammi is known to launch fresh faces. She introduced as many as eight newcomers in Mummyji. “It was quite a risk because except for Kiron Kher all of them were new. And on top of it, they came without any auditions. But then I had the confidence of getting what I wanted from my actors,” she says. And as for Garry she shares a special bond. “I have seen in him the same drive and passion I saw in Akshaye Khanna during his raw, un-groomed days,” she chips in. Another project she is working on at present is Bollywood Biwies, a light, fun film once again. For this Pammi is trying to rope in big names like Sushmita Sen, Tabu and Madhuri. “It’s the script’s demand,” she tells. All these scripts have been written by Pammi herself. “In fact, it is to safeguard my scripts that I became a director-producer,” says Pammi, who had quite a long stint as a scriptwriter for films and tele-serials after she quit a regular job with Cine Blitz magazine. “Writing scripts gives me a high — bringing characters to life, destroying them and then resurrecting them makes me feel like almost god,” and her wink conveys the rest. Well, although as a filmmaker Pammi has been focusing on the entertaining elements, it is only a step towards a larger goal — her dream production, The Winning Streak. And when she talks about it we see the other side of Pammi, the tough and courageous woman who went to California to fight against her NRI husband who had deserted her with three little kids. “It was the winning streak in me which motivated me to argue my own case in a foreign court and I won. And this is the story I want to tell people because this one story thousands of Punjabi women can relate to,” she says, without a trace of bitterness. And we can’t help but marvel at her capacity to internalise pain only to bring it out in such a positive way!
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Stressing it a little too far
We ask some these young professionals on their take on fitness and also take tips from the doctor on how to stay hail and hearty despite the stress. “My work regime requires me to be in office from 9 am to almost 8 pm and it leaves me with no time to take care of my body,” says Ankush Sood, employee of a telecom company in SAS Nagar. Informing us about his health mantra he says, “As my working hours are pretty long, to keep myself in good shape I have recently started doing yoga. This ancient form of exercise helps me maintaining my cool throughout the day and gives me a lot of energy.” Anuj Jain, owner of The Other Square-17, says, “When you run your own business, it demands a lot of attention because of the risk factor involved and stress becomes a part of your lifestyle. But then stress is associated with all professions these days and the best way to escape is by enjoy your work and stay calm. Be frank with your employees, make them your friends and make your work place a happy place. For me I close my store at 9 pm and that’s when I have time for myself and I de-stress myself by catching up a late night film or simply head towards the hills.” “I am so lost in my work that I sometimes even forget to lock my house,” says Anand Gupta, who works with a private bank in Sector 8. And when it comes to chill out while working, he says, “When I feel stressed out at work, I usually take a stroll outside the office and have a cup of hot tea. Known to be a stress-buster, tea surely relieves me of all my tension.” Lending us tips to de-stress, Dr Geeta Joshi, ayurvedic and stress management consultant from Krishna Clinic-44 says, “Stress is related to the mind and only way out for these young professionals is positive thinking.” She adds: “Life has been the same for all of us but these days youngsters think a lot. They don’t take things casually and that is where stress gets into their lives.” Suggesting ways to ease out from stress she says, “Think positive. Relax, that’s another way of keeping tension out of your life. Watching comic serials can make you feel good.” Talk of the common ailment and she says, “Backache is one of the most common problem that young professionals face because of the long sitting hours and also the wrong diet. And the mantra to a good health is: “Eat proper to stay healthy.” jigyasachimra@tribunemail. com
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Express yourself
’CATCH them young, and then groom them in a realm of their choice’. This seems to be the noble concept of Chandigarh Sahitya Akademy for organising a workshop on creative writing at the akademy complex on Saturday.
Over 150 students from 11 schools participated in the workshop. “It is encouraging to see such response, “says Manju Jaidka, akademy chairperson. “Drama is a life size art, which incorporates script writing, dance, music and stage performances,” says academician, actor and writer Surinder Sharma. “Study is the soul of the pen,” maintained Rajinder Kanojia, a short story writer who advocates exhaustive reading of literary material before attempting to script a story. Noted poet Kailash Ahluwalia advised them to develop a keen sense of observation of circumstances, situations, emotions and passions from which poetry is born. Another course leader, Anju Aery, however dwelt into the articulation of perception of a theme. The best piece of advice came from chief guest and city mayor Pardeep Chhabra who exhorted student writers to discuss global warming & environment related issues in their writings. Akademy vice-president D.S. Gupt, secretary Madhav Kaushik and Prof Bhupinder Singh conducted the workshop coordinated by poet Prem Vij and Aruna. |
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Matka Chowk RAIN is the stuff of romance in our continent. Innumerable poets have written exquisite poetry simply being inspired by a rainwashed morning. Heroines have sung immemorial songs while their white pallu flew out in the stormy winds. A keyword search of bheegi bheegi would open endless Indian sites. We seem to be enjoying a real monsoon this time. Chandigarh rain has its own mark and character. In cities with deep monsoons, most people leave home with an umbrella, but not here. When a spell of shower starts, some people casually walk to a shelter and some carry on, completely unperturbed. Many just sit on the rickshaw or drive their scooter in thunderous rain. After living here for years, I too feel that the umbrella is an unnecessary item. A little rain has never harmed anyone and the thrill in taking a chance when you leave home while the dark clouds are billowing far outweighs the caution one exhibits by carrying the umbrella. One of my finest memories of the Sukhna involves walking by the lakeside in an impending storm with the water swelling rakishly, the sky parting to emblazon dazzling lightning followed by a mad shower that obliterated visibility. I stood under a gazebo and felt more alive than ever before. In many big metros I will be told – “wait a while, don’t leave, it looks like it is going to rain.” In this city – my friends while seeing me off – would look up to the sky, clap their hands and say – “Oh what lovely weather. It is going to rain!” We are after all intrepid people. Tagore was extremely fond of the rainy season. Some of his most beautiful creations are in the form of rain worship. He found in rain liberation, abundance, utter joy and self-submission. I am sure his heart was open to stormy winds and dark clouds. A rainstorm in some other cities means anxious sighs and dreading the state of water logging in the streets. A rainstorm here means, young girls splashing through the water in their scooties, rickshaw riders getting wet and grinning, the jamun tree dropping its berries. I was caught in a sudden downpour the other day. I dashed into the kitchen of the club and stood under the serving balcony. One of the waiters brought me a chair and another some lemonade. When I said, “Koi nahin,” they said, “Baitho Ma’am, barish ka maza lo.” Tagore would have loved our rain spirit. I sat in the wicker chair and thought of one of his songs: “ My heart befriends the cloud and takes flight towards the boundless skies – singing the melody of the monsoon rain – rhimjhim, rimjhim, rimjhim...” (This column appears weekly)
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I am a 24-year-old girl, living in constant fear of the unknown. Life seems like a huge question mark to me. As a kid, I often used to have nightmares. It happens even now and I then find it difficult to go back to sleep. I grew up in a boarding school where girls would narrate ghost stories at night. I used to get scared. Even now I hate to sleep alone. I keep praying and fear is a constant element in my life. I do not enjoy holidaying. Can you help me to get over my irrational way of thinking?
Rasjeet Kaur, Chandigarh Calm down, just relax and allow life to flow free. You are the one giving power to your thoughts. So just learn to control your thoughts. Fear messages sent to us in our childhood for controlling us leave a very powerful and indelible influence on our minds. Our thoughts control our psyche. All the distortions that seem to be occurring in our lives are due to our twisted thoughts. Just remember all these ghost stories, which are the ruling fear factor in your life, are only conjured up by your own thinking. So, only you have the power to drive them away. Use your inner strength to do so. Visualise negative energy and just imagine you have negated it. When you do this a few times, your fear images will naturally vanish. n
I am 32, working as a nurse in a hospital. Since the last few months, I have become friendly with a doctor who is also working in the same hospital. He was actually my best girl friend’s acquaintance and he told me he was interested in her. Then slowly as I was trying to help him to find a way into her heart, I realised I was beginning to have feelings for him. We share similar interests and spend a lot of time together. It would be great if we could have a relationship. He thinks I am helping him out but somehow I have a feeling he likes me too. Please advise. Pinkie Atwal,
Mohali You have no reason to feel guilty about your feelings. It is only natural to fall for some body, who reflects your own way of thinking. After all, he is not her boyfriend so you need not feel you are actually spoiling someone’s relationship. Put it across to the guy that it would be nice if you two could be more than friends and see how he reacts. If your instincts are right, which they normally are, then well you could pursue things but if you feel that he is less inclined towards a more mature relationship, you can always remain good friends. At your age, maturity of a certain kind does set in. So just be open and honest about your feelings. Allow them to take precedence. Give him a chance to think for himself and come to his own conclusions. n
I am 34, married with two kids. The older one is seven and the younger one is five. Although my husband and I have had a wonderful relationship in the past, but since the kids have come our relationship has become a bit strained. He feels I really neglect him and I am spending too much time with our children. I feel my kids are small and they need attention. I was brought up by a mother who completely ignored me and my younger sister and we have both been resentful about it. I always wanted a loving mother and that’s what I try to be for my kids. How do I explain this to my husband? Anjali Malhotra,
Delhi Most people conveniently put the blame on others and come out clean. I can quite believe what a handful two little kids are, and especially if you are playing the perfect mom. Well, bringing up kids is a shared responsibility, so make your husband part of it. I can understand that you don’t want to repeat the mistakes of your mother and want to be supermom but please do not allow the obsession to colour your relationship with your husband. Create a balance. Do not allow anyone of importance in your life feel neglected. Give him a level of emotional comfort and trust me, life will find its balance. (This column appears weekly) |
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Little Interview
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What made you participate in the show? It was an altogether different concept. It excited me and gave me a chance to meet the wild side of life. Besides, I think I will never be able to do such a thing ever again in my life. My husband was a constant support and encouraged me to go ahead with the show. n
What about other participants? It was more than encouraging having contestants from the same fraternity. Though Nethra Raghuraman and Tapur Chaterjee are well known to me, but through this show I made new friends. n
Tell us something about working with Akshay? He is very encouraging and supportive. He is a seasoned stuntman who knows his job well and was more of a mentor than a host. He would scold us when we went wrong and constantly told us to be strong and shed no tears. n
Best and worst stunt of the game. The worst was the spider stunt. My face was covered with spiders and I had to unlock and free myself, which wasn’t easy. And the best one was the water stunt. n
You are married to a Punjabi. How was it adjusting to a new culture? I was married in February last year. We both come from two very different parts of the country, but for us different cultures add charm to our relationship. Infact, we had two kinds of weddings, Sikh and Assamese. This helped us to know each other’s cultures closely. n
What’s on the cards: Bollywood or tele serials? As of now, nothing concrete. This was the only show that I was doing. Now that I am out of it, I plan to take go on a month long holiday with my husband. |
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First day first show
Singh is Kinng Back home in a Punjab village, Lucky’s activities are a cause of discomfort and disquiet to his parents and well-wishers. How to bring him back is their dilemma. But they don’t have to wait for long. There is a ray of hope in the form of desi Hancock Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar) whose antics have made the residents anything but happy. A good samaritan, he has hurt people more than he has helped them. What other way to get rid of him than to dispatch him to bring Lucky back into the mainstream, resolve the village folk. But where does that leave Katrina Kaif? Bazmee has another belief, you see. Where there is Akshay, there has to be Katrina. After all, she was his and Akki’s ‘lucky mascot’ in Welcome. So, the lady with ravishing looks is roped in as Sonia who is studying law in Egypt and meets the hero who, along with his middle-aged understudy, Rangeela (Om Puri), has landed there due to a mix-up. She later turns out to be the daughter of florist Kirron Kher who provides shelter to Happy and Rangeela after Lucky refuses to go back with them and throws them out of his mansion. She is in love with Ranbir Shorey and the two have come to Australia. Apart from teaching the village lad gone astray a lesson, it is also left to Happy to get them married. Soon, all hell will break loose in the netherworld of Australia, which will witness the unprecedented ‘deeds’ of Happy. We have to say it upfront. The flick is not a laugh riot in the league of Dhamaal or Partner. It’s a comic vehicle that moves faster than Welcome, but slower than Namastey London. Akshay keeps the gags coming in the first half. Puri’s yen for comedy is revealed in many scenes. Javed, Sonu, Sudhanshu, Yashpal, Kirron and Kamal Chopra also tickle your funny bone by their hilarious actions. But the fun dips in the second half when Shorey and Katrina miserably fail to add mirth to the proceedings. Neha Dhupia has nothing worthwhile to do in a miniscule role. In keeping with another notion, Anees names her character as Julie, which was the title of Neha’s hit film. Some of the action scenes featuring Akshay and Sonu are breathtaking. Some of the songs, especially Ji Karda, have already become chart-toppers. But there are also several incongruities. Akshay and Om are dropped at the mansion of the mafioso, which is surrounded by a lake strangely by cops who also escort them out in a motorboat. Akshay is shown in a song sequence in Australia, which also features Kaif who is earlier shown to be in Egypt. For reasons best known to the director, Sood’s brother, Javed, is a look alike of Shorey’s father. Though it’s too early to say whether the movie will make Akshay the numero uno of the box office, Anees Bazmee certainly proves himself to be the king of the farcical cinema. Showing at: Piccadilly, DT Cinemas, Centra Mall, Fun Republic, KC (Pkl)
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Beyonce ‘whitened’ up?
COSMETICS giant L'Oreal has denied lightening singer Beyonce Knowles' skin tone in their new advertisement. The company came under fire when a picture of the stunner was published in Elle magazine - showing her complexion lighter and reddish-blonde hair. Various newspapers have slammed the promotional picture for Feria hair colour, after the metamorphosis was highlighted on a celebrity website. "Beyonce has been a spokesperson for L’Oreal Paris brand and it is not true that L'Oréal altered her skin tone in the campaign," the company spokesperson was quoted as saying. A representative for the singer said that although she might look different, there was little doubt that the woman in the glossy advertisement was his client. But Hollywood publicist Alan Nierob said, “There is no doubt that anyone seeing that ad will know that it is Beyonce."
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Anthrax threat
The building housing offices of Tom Cruise and Salma Hayek received a security threat involving anthrax. The LA MGM Tower, sent out
a building-wide memo info-rming all the tenants of the anonymous threat. It is not known if Cruise and Hayek were present at the time.
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Health Peg
Intake of oily fish once a week may reduce age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a major cause of blindness and poor vision in the elderly, says a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. A team of researchers across seven European countries, co-ordinated by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine sought to investigate the association between fish intake and omega 3 fatty acids with wet AMD, comparing people with wet AMD with controls. The findings show that people who habitually consume oily fish at least once a week compared with less than once a week are 50 per cent less likely to have wet AMD. There was no benefit from consumption of non-oily white fish. People in the top 25 percent of DHA and EPA levels (300 mg per day and above) were 70 per cent less likely to have wet AMD. Astrid Fletcher, Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who led the study, said: “This is the first study in Europeans to show a beneficial association on wet AMD from the consumption of oily fish and is consistent with results from studies in the USA and Australia. “Two servings a week of oily fish, such as salmon, tuna or mackerel, provides about 500 mg of DHA and EPA per day”. The research team is not, however, recommending omega 3 supplements, as the study did not investigate whether supplements would have the same benefit as dietary sources. — ANI
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WE may spend moolah on buying private education for our children, learning nuances of English, getting that proper accent and grammatically correct verbal communication. But in the moment of any linguistic emergency, what slips out from our tongues is our own ‘mother tongue’. Hey bhagwan or hai rabba remains to be an involuntary discourse that comes out like a muscle reflex on our tongues. 
SITTING in front of the computer for hours, work pressure and cut throat competition. Then comes the need to socialise. In midst of all these, health takes a backseat. Facing numerous health problems like backaches, high blood pressure and sleeping disorders, are young professionals who are struggling hard to keep themselves going in life and career.
HOT and happening, she is the new face of glam girls, who like to play it tough. Dipannita Sharma, model turned actor and one of the 13 participants of Fear Factor Khatron ke Khiladi, gets candid about her participation and elimination from the show, her marriage and lots more.
DIRECTOR Anees Bazmee is an unabashed purveyor of strange beliefs. One of these is that frivolity sells. This made him turn gangsters into matchmakers in Welcome. It now sees him convert mobsters into comical characters in Singh is Kinng. Led by Lucky Singh (Sonu Sood) who is a mafia don, the bunch of seven baddies have spread terror in far-off Australia. Whether it is Lucky’s brother, Mika (Javed Jaffery), or associate Raftar Singh (Sudhanshu Pandey), the goons shoot first and ask questions later. That they look more funny than menacing when they fire a volley of shots is another matter.