While Bollywood may have to wait for couturier Ritu Kumar to pick up a project as a costume designer, internationally Kumar has been making waves with her designs in films like Deepa Mehta’s Bollywood Hollywood and son Ashvin Kumar’s Little Terrorist followed by The Forest. Kumar is back with a “different film” in her kitty and this time it’s Deepa Mehta’s ambitious film Midnight’s Children based on Salman Rushdie’s Booker prize-winning novel.

A Turkish couple made it official by tweeting “I Do,” in what’s believed to be the world’s first Twitter-hosted wedding. They wrote Evet — the Turkish word for yes — on their Twitter to seal their fate together. This may be a one-off case but weddings are turning techno with Facebook, Twitter, Skype and video services, and tech freaks swear that apart from being an exciting idea, there are many benefits of virtual weddings.

A woman journalist was reportedly not allowed to enter an exhibition at the Bombay High Court just because the sleeveless top she was wearing was deemed immodest. Last year a similar incident invited sharp reactions when two Czech nationals were stopped from entering the court and were fined. A notice was promptly put up asking the security personnel to “only allow litigants wearing modest dresses in sober colours”.

Is profane the new chic? Recently a passenger was asked by an American Airlines pilot to drape a shawl over the shirt because her T-shirt bore a four-letter expletive. An Indian student was barred from a Delta flight because of his T-shirt that mocked federal security agents and included the words, “Terrists gonna kill us all”.

Diptakirti Chaudhuri, salesman by day, writer by night, as he loves to call himself, has come up with the ultimate Bible of Bollywood, packed with completely useless Hindi film trivia. He has put together 50 lists and 500 nuggets of trivia in Kitnay Aadmi Thay, where the information spans the last six decades of Hindi cinema to the present.

If New Moon is a romantic fantasy tale by author Stephenie Meyer, designer Sabyasachi’s finale collection titled “New Moon” is no less than a femme fantasy minus the vampire. At the recently concluded Delhi Couture Week, Kolkata-born master engineer of clothes and every fashion lover’s favourite designer, Sabya wrote an intelligent epilogue in khadi.

At the third day of the Delhi Couture Week 2012 Anju Modi and Manish Arora, the designers for the day, told the story of an India that values its customs yet is so modern and futuristic.

When designer duo Ashima and Leena, veterans in the couture industry, presented their glam bridal wear, the front row saw an interesting mix of people from the art as well as fashion world.

After captivating readers for several decades with his action-packed adventures, Saradindu Bandyopadh-yay’s immortal detective Byomkesh Bakshi is now wooing a new generation of admirers in their language i.e. English. And author-translator Arunava Sinha has taken the responsibility to carefully translate the three mysteries, originally written in Bengali, for this volume by Puffin Classics, in order to connect the old school detective to the Facebook generation.

After a series of changes in the cast for Ram Leela, filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali has finally found his Juliet in Deepika Padukone. And Sanjay has picked Delhi-based designer Anju Modi to design for Deepika.