Any modern average Facebooker boasts of at least 500-600 friends on the list and is proud to not know more than half of them. Comprising of random stalkers, friends by association, drunken louts you met at a party and high school friends you actually hate, getting a chance to meet them all in one place would be an invitation out of hell.

Films that have cities as their characters do much more than a good casting job. They immortalise the streets, corners, markets, which you so consider your own and show them like you have never seen before. A feeling which any Dilliwallah must have when watching films like Chashme Buddoor, Dev D or Rang De Basanti. So, when as a part of their film club, the Habitat Centre recently decided to showcase a series called Delhi in 80s, which played movies from that watershed decade showing the city in a hazy meandering light, we were more than intrigued and decided to find how exactly was it then, with its Appu Ghar and empty roads?

Films that have cities as their characters do much more than a good casting job.

For those in their twenties, the 90s could possibly be the longest decade they have seen for far. As even after having played ‘Waiting for Tonight’ well into the new millennium, fashion, slang and mannerism remain as stuck as that song in our heads. And the reason was our television. Watching the same re-runs of Friends, Sex

Rampur brings to mind the house of best pocket knives and the dusty Western-like setting for Sholay. But it’s also the land of lilting, delicate flavours. Celebrating that is the Rampuri Food Festival, at The Dhaba at the Claridges Hotel.

So it’s a Rohit Bal show with a difference, because it’s there for everyone to see. It won’t be necessary to “arrange” for passes or to gatecrash as a leading cosmetic company is organising a fashion show with designer Rohit Bal at the NSIC grounds at Okhla and 10,000 people are invited.

Ask any hormonal, raring-to-break-out-of-the-school-cage teenager what he is relieved about the most; school uniform will come as a reply. So, when designer du jour Vera Wang blogged about how everyone essentially sticks to a basic fashion uniform and definitely not due to a still-cool-for-school hangover, we were forced to ponder. So, we caught the best budding talents in the country, asking whether they too like Vera, like to live in their leggings.

The aftermath is clearly visible with everything she touches turning gold instantly. Be it the designer dress she wore, replicas of which have flooded the web making the designer an immediate sensation or getting the famed magazine covers which are usually reserved for superstars of hall of fame. Ever since what was perhaps the most popular proposal of last decade, when Prince William asked his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton to be a royal bride, every aspect of the oncoming wedding from the

Every year-end brings with it a spate of fresh resolutions; countless top ten lists, extra workload and one oft repeated remark. “Where did the year disappear?” Facebook posts and Twitter updates constantly bemoan the loss of yet another year, which had “just started” and “got over, already”. So, while we are not repeating the many

The going’s been tough for graphic novels in India, but the road’s just got better. While their printed version found few takers, they are proving the perfect stuff for e-books.