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Art of Winning
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With girls having a clear majority
on campus, PU elections have a lot to do with wooing the girl brigade be
it through looks, smiles or sporting brands. Purva
Grover chats up the budding leaders
Hockey sticks, pleasant smiles, free movie tickets, polite
conversations, campaign rallies, blame games, long speeches, deferring
rules, shouting slogans, pasting stickers, placing banners...is this all
to Panjab University elections? Perhaps not, as we discover on our visit
to the campus.
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THE SPEECH GURU: Vijay Chauhan. — Photo by Pradeep Tewari |
Bylaws go
to the dogs
The city municipal corporation is
trying to put the bite on the residents, at least by imposing dog tax,
writes Saurabh Malik
The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation
has come out with a scoop.
 Fun &
frolic @ peanuts
Your child is all excited about his upcoming birthday and it is
leaving you tense. For, your budget this year is tight and you can’t
spend a fortune on the bash. But then, you want to make the day special
and memorable for your little one. We’ll tell you how but before you
get going, run through this thumb rule — a sense of involvement, lots
of colour and a unique imprint spells a perfect and budget-friendly
birthday party.
Big & happy celebrations are not always measured by a three-tier cake, frills and laces, imported return gifts and five star cuisines.
Youth
speak
The path to choose...
 Adolescence, the age between 13 to 19 years, is one of the most
crucial periods of one’s life. This is the time when one decides about
their future. This is the time when one wants to be at the top of the
world, wants to do something different, and wants to prove themselves
right. This stage determines a person’s future life, as it is actually
the preparation ground of one’s life. It feels as if whatever we do is
right and what our elders say is wrong. We want to live life in our own
way without anyone’s interference.
 New
releases
Dhamaal
Director: Indra Kumar
Starring: Sanjay Dutt, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Aashish
Chowdhary,
Javed Jaffery
After Masti and Pyare Mohan, Indra Kumar is back with comedy again,
this time with Sanjay Dutt. The man who once gave hits like Dil, Beta,
Raj and Ishq, wanted to go back to his emotional and romantic stories
but his children forced him into comedy.
From
bulky to chic
CEOs, executives or freshers, have
your pick from the smart, classy bags designed for your busy schedule
Sometimes back, the workingmen brigade
would envy the women at work. Reason, the corporate women would carry a
smart, chic bag each day and at times even match it with their outfits.
And, the men were stuck with the bulky briefcase in regular boring
colours. But, not any more, for now, even men can make an impressive
statement at work. On offer by various brands is a huge range of laptop
bags, briefcases, portfolio bags and backpacks.
Big, fat Punjabi
wedding
Punjabis with a robust penchant for perfection can raise a peg to
this (Patiala peg, do we need to mention?). For, the flavour of the big
fat Punjabi weddings has really caught on, and how! Move over richie-rich
North Indian NRIs shelling envious moolah over Page 3 weddings. Our
homegrown Punjabis could actually give some competition to Chatwals and
Subroto Roy, provided you’re willing to shell around Rs 5lakh on, say,
your wedding sangeet or Rs 3lakh on adding that little zing n’ zoom to
your company’s much-awaited corporate event. And wait, there’s some
solace for the clan of brooding relatives who won’t make it to their
loved ones’ wedding — all they’ll need to do to is log on to the
Internet and whoa — they can experience wedding revelry!
Step into
my saloon
Sitting in your hairdresser’s
chair just got stylish, classier and costlier, Anandita
Gupta finds out
A five-star ambience, high-fi
technology, a team of experts, soothing music, coffee table
books...visiting a city salon is an experience of a kind. The tricity is
flooded with swish hair salons that offer your hair the priciest of
pampering on a fancy platter. We scour the city to select a few salons,
where scissors spell suave style and more.
 SIDELANES
Shikaar Tales
Baba used to go out hunting with Tony at the Bir in Hisar. As my
sister and I plugged our ears against the impending explosions of the
double barrels, the two friends waited behind rocks, sighting the deer
that flew past on winged hooves. When a shot brought down an animal, we
shared the meat. It was dark, fibrous, fat-less, dry and unlike the
succulent chicken and mutton bought from the gosht dukaan.
Setting
the stage on fire
 A weeklong theatrical treat for
city
art lovers
Except theatre, no other art form can initiate a social or political
dialogue and involve the masses instantly. The city art lovers will
experience most innovative, vibrant and entrancing theatre performances
for a week in the forthcoming Rashtriya Natya Utsav, (National Theatre
Festival-2007) starting September 7 at Tagore.
Rising
Star
A versatile artiste
“Surviving as just a theatre artiste is indeed difficult especially
when a city like Chandigarh has no tradition of professional theatre,”
opines the well-known stage actor Suvinder Pal.
“But the professional training, versatility and adaptability to all
types of roles and theatre forms, including the street genre, keeps you
afloat despite little financial gains. There is no dearth of talent in
the city but there is no patronage,” he adds.
Language
no bar
What does one do when placed on an alien environment and asked to
teach a bunch of kids who speak nothing else but Punjabi? To start with,
the teacher becomes a student and learns the language, just enough to
strike an effective conversation. But not in Pandit Rao Dharenavar,
popularly known as Pandit Rao’s case. He goes one step further, not
just learn spoken Punjabi but learn to write as well. And for the past
six months he has been doing precisely that — writing in all major
Punjabi dailies to popularise modern teaching methodology. What’s
more, he is now writing poems in Punjabi too.
It’s
all about team spirit
 After being in marriage-video business
for 12 years now, Vikas Arora, leader of The Team, is all equipped to
step ahead of time – with the latest technology to assist him in his
endeavour. “There was a time when marriage videos were made with poor quality
cameras by poorly trained cameraman. Now with the scene changing for the
better, we are trying to stay ahead of time by investing in the latest
equipments,” says Vikas who has been in the field of photography for
the past 45 years.
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