For better or for worse, the single ‘Friday’ has made 13-year-old Rebecca Black a tween sensation overnight. All she had to do was upload her self- penned novelty tune heavily loaded with auto-tune and ironically tagged with an abysmal video onto YouTube, and BANG! The next morning and 60 million hits later Rebecca Black became a star.

With books kids may be getting good grades, but it’s of little use if their imagination isn’t given wings and a creative outlet isn’t provided. With an aim to give the under-privileged kids an opportunity to expand their creative horizon, Dreaming Child Productions (DCP) is holding an educational workshop for 300 children of Vidya and Child School, Noida on April 9.

How does it feel to be famous? What kind of life do celebrities have? What lies beyond the glitz and glamour of tinseltown? These are some of the perplexing questions that fans as well as non-fans face. Living the Dream by Mark Bennington is a documentation that passionately presents a visual encyclopaedia of working actors, stars, mega-stars, up-and-comers, character actors and strugglers of Bollywood, illustrating the complexity of the world’s largest acting community.

Gone are the days when a seven-figure salary and stock options were ways in which you could definitely attract the professional crème-de-la-crème. Young people of today are more interested in being lured by cooler stuff like casual dress codes and flexible work hours.

The marriage speculations of the most sought after bachelor of B-town, Karan Johar have been only that, speculations with KJo refusing any alliance with the New York-based girl Vandana Melwani.

For people who only access fashion weeks via the glitzy images in glossies and major Bollywood presence on the ramp, the fact that behind all the pomp and glamour there exists a strong business motive, might be slightly difficult for them to digest.

Women finally wear the pants. The last few seasons have been dominated by the dress — from the long flowing maxi dress to the short mini number. This season’s catwalks were dominated by pants in various shapes and formats. There are straight wide-leg pants and harem pants. The spring runways had a plethora of these. Etro,

Thirteen-year-old Reshma (name changed) had silently been suffering at the hands of none other than her own father. She was ten when he allegedly began raping her. Finally, she told her brother’s wife that her father, a resident of North Delhi, would get drunk and repeatedly rape her.

Senior advocate and tax lawyer Nalini Chidambaram turns 65 this month but Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s wife says that she has no plans of slowing down. “I love my profession and will work till I drop dead,” she laughs.

No matter how psychologically evolved men might claim to be, there is always a section that believes that girls only dress up to impress boys. And while that might be true for some, there are others who take the business of man-repelling very seriously. Like the 21-year-old Manhattan resident, Leandra Medine, whose blog “The Manrepeller” (Manrepeller.com) defines the act as outfitting oneself in a sartorially offensive way that will result in repelling members of the opposite sex.