What's in a surname!
To keep it or not to keep it, Dutt's the question. Tricity folks give their take on the debate sparked off by actor-turning politician Sanjay Dutt on his sister keeping her maiden surname
Continuing with their maiden surname after marriage is an option many women exercise. But the matter has been given a new twist with wannabe politician Sanjay Dutt coming out openly with the statement, "Girls who become part of a new family after marriage must assume their new surname." And he has been taken to task by none other than the Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chaudhary, who termed Sanjay's remarks as 'archaic and out of date'.
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Shabana Azmi
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Famous maiden names
Celebrities from all walks of life have retained their maiden surnames after matrimony. Shabana Azmi and Vasundhra Raje Scindia are among those in politics and Raveena Tandon and Pooja Bhatt in filmdom. |
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Pooja Bhatt
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Jinxed for Oscars
Even after Slumdog’s Golden Globe glory, Indian films are miles away from their Oscar dream
The "Oscars jinx" for Indian films and filmmakers continues! Seven years after Ashutosh Gowarikar's Lagaan crossed the nomination hurdle at the Oscars by becoming the third Indian film in the history of Indian cinema to bag a nomination in the Best Foreign Film category at the prestigious awards only to be pipped in the final race by Bosnia's No Man's Land, Indian cinema still finds itself at the crossroads as far as solving the Oscars jigsaw puzzle is concerned.
— A still from Taare
Zameen Par
Scent of an actor
Amitabh Bachchan to launch second perfume line
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan is to spray yet another whiff of fragrance with the launch of his second perfume line. Amitabh's new cologne will be launched by the makers of his first signature perfume, French brand
Lomani. "It was delightful to meet up with old friends and colleagues who had worked on the earlier (perfume line)," the Bollywood star wrote on his blog
http://bigb. bigadda.com Monday.
Change of heart
Shreyas Talpade not Kukunoor's blue-eyed boy any more
Avant-garde directors abandon their favourite actors once they find foothold in the
mainstream, where stars are easily available to them. The latest to drop his favourite is Nagesh Kukunoor, who has stopped signing Shreyas Talpade for his films.
After Iqbal and Dor, Shreyas-Kukunoor seemed to have formed an actor-director team.
Shreyas Talpade
Faces of meditation
Bhuvneshwar Singh depicts meditation and circle of life on canvas
You might have read umpteen number of books on meditation. You might have also heard and followed some self-professed gurus teaching it but these aren’t the only media to teach mystical subject. There are many more and Bhuvneshwar Singh, a graphic designer by profession, provides us one.
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Like mother, like daughter
Bollywood actor Isha Deol performs during Kalarang festival in Margao, Goa.
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Launch PAD
Choose health
Bagrrys India launches Hi Fibre Lo Cal Muesli, an excellent instant cereal that is rich in fibre and low on calories. Created purely on customer feedback and demand, Baggry’s Hi Fibre Lo Cal muesli contains no almonds or raisins and has reduced the content of cornflakes, which is a high glycemic index food to a neglible level. This new generation breakfast cereal is packed with the goodness of oat clusters, wheat flakes, oat bran and wheat bran. This delicious breakfast cereal provides natural vitamins, minerals and proteins with zero cholesterol.
- For your kitchen
- Oral hygiene
Packed knowledge
Tiffin guy Pawan Aggarwal captivates the audience at Panjab University
Students of management, your attention please! All those associating B-school grads with
Blackberrys, Ivy League colleges, never-ending board meetings and dinner jacket networking, reconsider. For, that’s exactly what students of University Institute of Applied Management Sciences did after attending a lecture by Pawan
Aggarwal, CEO, Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers.
Speed interrupted
The speed breakers at Panjab University kicked up quite a furore
Security, security, security. First we go overboard asking for it. How the university is not doing enough. Never doing enough. The authorities sleeping when violence breaks out right under their nose. Every day on the campus, witnessing an attempt at assault, bloodshed and ruckus. Accusations, allegations, finger pointing, and amongst it all the increasing traffic woes - left, right and centre. Then they wake up. We mean, the authorities, of course.
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Chandan
And the Fest-ivity begins…
The year started with Goonj ki goonj on the campus. The much-hyped affair lasted for three days, with more than 30 colleges across the region participating. The centre of attraction was UIET and whether it was Silk Route, the fashion show that saw beauties sizzle the ramp or the Razzmatazz-mic dance competition, it had everything right from the fun, food and festivities. A performance that stood out in the dance competition was the mirror effect performance by the PEC team.
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Double fun
Watch out for…
Taking forward the fest season on campus, UIAMS presents Praznik 09, a three day long fest of imagination. The fiesta full of fun, feeling, fling and frolic brings you a whole lot of fun activities:
A happy mix?
One in 10 children in the UK now lives in a mixed-race family, a major study has revealed. The study is raising future hopes of a non-racist Britain. According to The Observer, mixed-race relationships are now so common that some ethnic groups, starting with African-Caribbean, will virtually disappear.Young people are six times more likely to be mixed-race as adults, the study says.Lucinda Platt, author of the report and an academic at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Essex University, describes the shift towards a mixed-race Britain as "dramatic".Half of all men in Britain who have Caribbean heritage and are in a relationship with partners of a different race.The same is true of one in five black African men, one in 10 Indian men and women and two out of five Chinese women. One in five children belong to an ethnic minority - a far higher proportion than among the adult population.
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Gossip session
A group of women chatting in the winter sun
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