Mums on LOSE!
Post childbirth, these moms have left no stone unturned to get that flab off their bodies
Called the ‘alpha mom’, she deftly handles all her roles even as she gets her body back into shape. She’s no Bridget Jones who would find positive reasons for being fat; have a puffed up face, stretch marks, flabby thighs, a career on hold and above all a thought — when will I get back to shape! Finding time to pace on the treadmill, do power yoga, get some dose of power walking… after the baby’s health and growth, postpartum fitness (or weight loss post-pregnancy) is the single most important concern for new moms.

WRITE here
In the city, German writer Dieter Riemensehneider shares notes
It took us a few rehearsals before we could pronounce Dieter Riemensehneider, the way it should be. The German writer was absolutely fine with our practice since he has experienced the same several times during his 18 visits to India. "Having spent so much time in India, what makes me stand apart from Indians is only my white skin. My heart is brown though," quips Dieter, who is enjoying every minute of his trip number 19 to the country! A book reviewer and professor in Frankfurt University, Germany, Dieter besides his touring, better understood India by reading and analysing works of Indian authors. "Usually the backdrop of the story reflects the culture any author has grown up in."

Life's stage
This art is not just for art's sake, but a purpose
Pahchan is the new dramatic society formed by zealous students of the Government College for Girls-42. A corridor converted into a stage, girls dressed up as different characters (that they have conceived themselves as) and a crowd cheering at every line delivered…it is the finale of the 10-day workshop in collaboration with Sanskar Bharti. Their teachers who are pleasantly surprised. "These girls were not even noticed 10 days back.

Glittering affair

Hi-voltage treat

Matka chowk
Human heart
Last evening, while sitting on my verandah in the evening and murmuring sweet nothings to the burgeoning Neem trees that have monopolized the horizon, I heard the strains of the evening Ajaan permeating through the moist evening air. I closed my eyes for a minute and prayed in plain English to keep all the people I love in this world safe and happy. I was struck by the thought that many women in Srinagar are doing the same.

The lady in leather
Indian beauty Freida Pinto is sure to win over plenty of fans with her latest photospread for men's magazine 'GQ', where she is clad in a series of risque leather outfits. The Slumdog Millionaire star looked the part of a Hollywood pin-up posing in leather minis and one picture shows her with a knife, cutting open a pomegranate. The 25-year-old who shot to international fame with her film debut as Latika in the Mumbai-based-potboiler, completed the look with red nail varnish and tousled hair. The actress is busy promoting her latest movie, Woody Allen's You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, where she plays a cellist who beguiles Josh Brolin from the window of her London flat.

Reality bites
While watching the muffled muted voices looking for a way to express themselves in the well-ordered sparkling-clean environment of an upper middle-class household in Delhi in For Real, we often feel a sense of smothered compulsion waiting to be liberated. And how liberating is the freedom that Priya Singh Shukla (played with brutal honesty by Sarita Choudhury) seeks out? She has given up what she thinks was a promising career in singing for her husband and children.

Weighty issue
Pop star Lady Gaga's choreographer has denied reports that the singer was hospitalised six times for extreme dieting, which saw her lose as much as 20 pounds between fittings for costumes.

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