Melody rules
Forget Jhoom Barabar Jhoom and hum Pal pal dil ke paas. Singers in city eateries are still crooning soft melodies of yore
Purva Grover
BIG B swinging to Jhoom Barabar Jhoom on plasma screen, a city’s premium FM channel bringing you traffic updates, crockery clattering, a bunch of youngsters giggling and much more. In this ‘eating out experience’, is there anything that you missed out on? Jazz, western classical, hip-hop —- you heard it all. Did you? Well, maybe not, for in this blasting experience, the light melodious voice coming from a corner in the eatery did get muffled somewhere.

youth speak
Who is responsible?
The recent fire at the BSNL telephone exchange led to disruption of Internet and telephone services in the city. Right from banking operations to railway bookings to the general public, it left everybody affected and posed a major hindrance in carrying daily work.

New releases
Enter the comic zone
Bombay to Goa
Director: Raj Pendurkar
Starring: Raju Shrivastava, Sunil Pal, Ehsaan Qureshi, Rauf Lala, Khayali

Groove with Rakhi & Javed
The contestants of SaharaOne’s Biggest Loser Jeetega will be in for a big surprise today as Rakhi Sawant and Javed Jaffery will join the teams to make the week special for them. They will spend three days in the house and cheer their respective teams. Rakhi will boost the morale of Team Red and Javed will be seen encouraging Team Blue.

Just a lil’ kiss
For many youngsters emotionlessly hugging a new lifestyle — where everything exists, nothing has value — kisses are nothing but lip service. By the way, today is World Kissing Day
Saurabh Malik
The tiny sparks of emotions that ignite impressive flames of passion have turned hopelessly hollow, and platonic. Look around and you find dames customarily brushing their fair visage against rouge-dabbed cheeks of fellow gals. Nay, not because they are queer, but out of sheer habit!

Skin Deep
Monsoon showers bring with them countless skin and hair problems. Here’s a quick guide on how to dazzle in the drizzle
Parbina Rashid
Beauty may be skin deep, but the roots of the problems go much beyond. Specially, in the rainy season. There are bacterial infections and there are fungal infections. To add to the woes, there are insect bites too. So even if the temptation to get drenched in the shower is too great, the though of the hair getting all frizzed up and the skin breaking into all sorts things gets the better of your romanticism. But you need not fret. For, there are solutions to such problems.

 

Photo artist in the making Little had Asim Singh Halwarvi thought that a recent pleasure trip to the mountains would help him bring home his talent. Some days in the company of nature and here he is — with his first photo exhibition — at a tender age of 12. ( L to R) The Tribune Editor-in-Chief H.K. Dua, Rock Garden creator Nek Chand and the artist, Asim Singh Halwarvi.

SIDELANES
A long way from home
Kashi Nath Dutt was packed off to Selwyn College, Cambridge, at the tender age of 18. He left by ship, as in those times, no planes whizzed across the global skies. It was an extended but exciting journey. By the time Dutt got off for a walk about around Milan, he had found his sea legs but lost his way due to the language barrier. He finally did land at the college, however, after having grayed his mother’s hair and frayed his father’s temper.

Filmy, yet real
India’s youngest Hindi movie channel has announced Bathroom Singer – an extraordinary reality show about ordinary people and their journey to stardom. The show is a hunt for an untrained singer who can capture the hearts of millions with the unique combination of singing and the entertainment quotient or jhaag.

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