In a beautiful green bandhni saree, a big red bindi, a tight bun and kohl in her eyes, she is as graceful as her paintings.

Mrigna Nagraj leaves home everyday with her iPad and a few literary classics in her bag. Once she reaches her destination, she is given a warm welcome by her friend. Together they spend about an hour and half reading books, discussing current affairs and playing games on the iPad. Mrigna’s life is worth envying! But this isn’t fun time — this is her job and the friend in question is a septuagenarian.

With the mercury on a steady rise, it is the season for colourful T-shirts.

The origins of puppetry has been attributed to India. The art is facing the onslaught of modernity and the traditional puppeteers are leading a hand-to-mouth existence. Most of us tuned into cultural stratosphere, would agree to this. But there is still a glimmer of hope.

People from different walks of life came together on the eve of World Autism Awareness Day to celebrate the inclusion of differently-abled kids from Tamana — a non-profit voluntary organisation — in the world of fashion, with a fashion show featuring the collections of Payal Jain, Ashish Soni, Abraham and Thakore, Rajesh Pratap Singh, Gautam Gupta, Anuradha Raman, Aneet Arora and Fab India at the Hyatt hotel.

Come April and the IPL fever will be raging again. Cashing in on the T20 mega fest craze, city joints are coming up with a wide array of deals.

Their eyes twinkled with excitement, and the faces wore big smiles as young football enthusiasts waited to hit the field with their favourite Bollywood actor. Inspite of a bevy of mediapersons, the kids from the Magic Bus Charity Foundation were least conscious and totally engrossed in their own games till Ranbir Kapoor, dressed in navy blue t-shirt and grey tracks, made his entry.

He is one of the best known British Asian artistes in the world and is the ‘godfather of Bhangra’. The 90s dance music was incomplete without his popular track, Aaja Nachle.

He loves playing Lizst and Busoni and says, everytime he approaches Beethoven, he feels he is on a roller coaster ride because it is so daunting.

Come this weekend and city music enthusiasts will have a lot to cheer about. Best of local and international music, good food and wine will converge together for the first prelude to the popular Escape music festival, at the outskirts of the capital.