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Preity talk COME Kya Kehna and
Shimla is all agog with the talk of this pretty woman.
Her hostel mates ( she was in Convent of Jesus and Mary)
remember her as a bubbly girl who was always full of
mischief. Preity Zinta, if they are to be believed, |
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The cutting edge What would you expect a busy neuro-surgeon to read during his leisure time? Something to soothe the mind? Well, Dr V.K. Kak, one of the best known surgeons in the country who also heads the Sector 32 hospital in Chandigarh, does just that. He reads and rereads the Bhagavatgita and also often turns to Bertrand Russell for solace. Other stress-buster for him are playing with his grandchildren and listening to Indian classical instrumental music and the good old ghazals.
His achievements are many. When he came to the PGI after completing his post graduation from the Agra Medical College in 1969 there was only one doctor in the department of neuro-surgery. He virtually built up the department and its reputation from a scratch. He shifted in 1995 to build the Sector 32 hospital and medical college. His brief was three-fold: recruit a faculty in five months, hold MBBS exams and secure Medical Council of India recognition for it. He managed to meet every deadline and thereafter has nurtured the institution as a doting father. Gentle giant I.S.
Bindra may be all over, more recently because of the
match-fixing controversy, but it homes where his heart
lies. The bearded galdiator of the Kamal especially appreciates her husband interest in cooking -- he specialises in making exotic tandoori chaap, chicken and fish curry --- and laying the dinner table. Kamal claims that her husband is ahead of his times."He is a visionary." One wonders whether Jagmohan Dalmiya would agree to that. Lite as in socialite According to a wag, a socialite is one who is the kindly lite (light) at every social do. She glows without illuminating anything. — Belu Maheshwari |
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always gave the
nuns a trying time as she was always involved in some
thing or the other which was not permissible. According
to one of her friends, when she was in Class IX her
parents met with an accident (her father died in that
mishap) and the nuns came to wake her up in the middle of
the night. As soon as Preity saw the nuns, she thought
she had been named once again in an act of indiscipline.
So, instead of first waiting for the nuns to say anything
she started protesting her innocence. "I
haven’t done anything wrong. I am not
involved," she reportedly repeated over and over
again till the nuns calmed her and broke the news of the
accident to her. She stayed at home with her mother for
two months before coming back to complete her schooling.
Later she joined St Bede’s and made her ambition of
becoming an actress known to every one. In fact, her
batch mates say that she was good at imitating the top
heroines of that time. Her first big break came when she
was selected for the Liril ad. Shimla residents were
mighty proud of her then as they are now because of
emotion-charged performance in Kya Kehna.
Simplicity is
what defines Dr Kak. He lives simply at home, and at the
work front he strives hard to reduce his professional
chores to the simplest possible level. He is stickler for
punctuality ("I have turned away senior colleagues
from the hospital if they reported late for work.")
and despite being the head of the hospital scrupulously
punches his attendance card every day. The other thing he
is very particular about is being polite to patients.
"This is the least we can do," he says.
cricket
administration arena has an almost unknown soft
underbelly. Says his wife, Kamal, " Short of givingn
birth to the children, he took care of them like a
mother. He would change their nappies and play with them.
He is very communicative and he indulges his daughter so
much that "she can twril him around her
fingers."