‘Judge’ Baliye
Nobody does it quite like them, applaud and admonish, that is! Gayatri Rajwade
brings you face to face with the three sassy ‘judges’ of Star One’s Nach Baliye and takes a closer peek at what they are doing on the show.
They are the colourful feathers on Nach Baliye’s crown and as Saroj Khan, Malaika Arora Khan and Kunal Kohli get ready to bring the curtains down on the second season of this funky act on Star One, it will definitely be a gloomy parting, what with their comments, their spirited impromptu acts and their camaraderie becoming just as well-known as the twinkling participants.
SKIRTING ROUND
Saurabh Malik
She loves to wear skirts on the college campus even in the bitter December cold. As the wintry weather fails to lay frost on her simmering spirits, she chills out in cool tweed skirts with faux fur boots of style and pleasure!
If you haven’t seen her zooming down the chilly tracks of life in asymmetrical skirts topped with floral jackets and nice little scarves, just drive down the road meandering its way to the cosy little fast-food joint in the Leisure Valley. Or else, go to the swanky coffee cafe steaming with fashion in the adjoining Sector 11.
HAUTE ‘N’ COLD: Skirts are no longer just for summers. — Photo
by Pradeep Tewari |
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Wonder
of discovery
It is, in fact, nothing short
of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely
strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry — Albert Einstein.
Angad B. Sodhi talks to a man who
believes modern education has strangled the spirit of inquiry.
Sri
Guru Har Kishen Model School in Sector 38-D played host to a workshop in
revolutionary teaching methods. Dozens of local primary school teachers
sat listening as the man simply known as ‘Shaji’ enthusiastically
explained different ways to teach mathematical and scientific concepts
to children.
BON APPETIT
The Picnic
Hamper
The
balmy winter afternoons beckon us to step out and meet Mother Nature.
You want to make that memorable? Venture into the wilderness, armed with
a picnic hamper. For the sheer enjoyment of the outing and the GRUB we
would cart along as kids!
Word
Play
PAIRS
THAT SNARE
Harmeet Kaur
In
R.B. Sheridan's play The Rivals one of the characters continually uses
long words in the wrong place. The following pairs of words are somewhat
similar in spelling and sound but very different in meaning. These pairs
are a sure trap for the unwary.
FILM & FASHION
Caught in
time warp
She
may be the epitome of the modern British woman in her real life, but
actress Kate Winslet is so used to starring in period dramas in her
reel-life, that she actually struggled to play a contemporary
Englishwoman in her new movie. The Oscar nominated actress has played
the Edwardian socialite in Titanic, a 1970s hippy in Hideous Kinky and
novelist Iris Murdoch in 1950s biopic Iris.
Daring
dhol act
His
earnest desire is to be known as ‘Betaj Badshah’, riding atop a
motorcycle while beating a Punjabi dhol. And if there are any
challengers for the coronet, “give it a thought again” is the sound
piece of advice for them! Well, the truth is that, none of us can resist
jiving to the reverberating sounds of the Punjabi dhol but when this lad
from Patiala beats the dhol standing atop his bike, the onlookers stand
still in amazement.
Language
of art
Smriti Sharma
“Art
is a realm of metaphysics that has a language of insight” is how this
“abstarct expressionist”, as he calls himself, defines art. Meet
Brij, a masters in economics from Panjab University and an artist for
the past 26 years who draws inspiration from life for his art.
COOL STUFF
John
unplugged
Zee
Muzic presents a collector’s edition calendar with John Abraham –
the hottest youth icon, shot by the ace photographer Subi Samuel. The
Zee Muzic - John Abraham 2007 Calendar presents exclusive pictures of
the urban Adonis John Abraham, for each month of the year.
‘Zaara
is not saas-bahu drama’
Be
it doing a film or a television serial, Kolkata-born Malini Kapoor
brings zing to her performances. She has been a regular face on
television in serials like Hawaiyan, Saathia, Kumkum and Dekho Magar
Pyar Se. Currently Malini is over the moon as she plays the role of
Zeenat in Zaara—Pyar ki Saugat on Sahara One television. The
Kolkata-born Punjabi actress talks to Lifestyle.
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