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Dil ko tumse pyaar hua Pehli baar hua tumse pyaar hua Main bhi aashiq yaar hua Pehli baar hua tumse pyaar hua Sameer, Rehna Hain Tere Dil Main Nayantara Das. Extremely bubbly, vivacious, a perfect representation of her sun sign: Leo. Nayantara was from Bangalore and had lived there until her school years. She shifted to Mumbai for college: St Xaviers and has been in love with the city since then. Mumbai as a city is known to have that charm on people. When caught between “Which City is Better” debates she has a tough time defending her “I love Bangalore but I also love Mumbai” stance. She graduated with an honors in economics. Loved the subject and studied it just for the love of it. She would never have dreamt of a career in anything ‘Financy’, like she called it. She started working with an NGO devoted to conservation of water using traditional methods. After having spent a year there, she realized that while she loved what she was doing and it was in fact a dream ...

  Rim jhim Rim jhim Rum Jhum Rum Jhum Bheegi Bheegi rut mein Tum hum hum tum... Javed Akhtar 1942, A Love Story Nikhil Kapoor was the next big thing in Bollywood. His films were a hit, women loved him, children loved and men ..well they constantly looked for characteristics that will show him in a more human form. But they failed. He was really perfect. OR so it seemed. The media tried their best to hunt for stories, gossip, scandals and always returned empty handed. Looks like there was really nothing to report when it came to Nikhil, other than of course how he was so awesome. Nikhil, even though with Kapoor as his last name, had nothing to do with Bollywood until he was 24 . A completed outsider he started from scratch in the industry. When Pepsi signed him to play the side-kick to Ranbir Kapoor in one of their commercials, the crowd looked at him instead of Ranbir and the journey started. He got more commercials and eventually a film. The film broke a few reco...

Last evening I went to an old temple in Delhi with my mother. Its a Subramnya Swamy temple. Subramanya is the south Indian incarnation essentially of Karthik, Ganesha's elder brother and Shiva and Parvathi's first born. We climbed up the ten thousand stairs to finally get to the main wing of the temple. The priests were carrying out their usual ritual of bathing the god with milk, honey and water, decorating him with sandal paste, flowers and jewellery. And finally offering fresh warm rice to him to feed him. All this while chanting the hymns, that have a calming effect on everyone present. It took them 30 mins to complete this before the Maha Arti at 7:30pm. As we enter, I see a lot of men and women and children, with folded hands waiting for the curtain covering the lord to be opened so that they can get that first glimpse of the very handsome and wish fulfilling God that Subramanya is. As I scan the ceiling of the temple to spot the number of crows sitting,...

When I was just a little girl I asked my mother, what will I be Will I be pretty, will I be rich Here's what she said to me. Que Sera, Sera, Whatever will be, will be The future's not ours, to see Que Sera, Sera What will be, will be. ~~Que Sera Sera ~ Doris Day The best thing about mothers is irrespective of whatever happens in your life, they are always there for you. She is there to celebrate a victory, to scold when you make a mistake, to hug when you are hurt. There have been loads of times my mom and I have not agreed on certain things, people, situations. Actually more often that not, we disagree. But even when we've disagreed she has always stood by me. Say I've made a new friend and my mom doesn't seem to like her too much, she tells me so and I laugh it off. And if that friend actually turns out to be not-a-friend, my mom has never come back and said "I told you so". In fact the only time I remember her saying 'I told you so...

Pyaase hain naina Tarse saare raina Jinme tu hai rehta Hal kyun tu jaane na Saiyyan pehchane na Hal unka kyun tu jaane na Saiyyan nainon ki bhasha samjhe na Nainon ki bhasha samjhe nah Samjhe na... Kuch toh hai zaroor Dil mera kitna majboor Kuch toh Hai zaroor Dil mera kitna majboor Jaan ke bhi tu Jaane na Saiyyan... Nainon ki bhasha samjhe na Samjhe na ~~ Kritika Kamra ~ Kuch Toh Log Kahenge Siddharth walked from the balcony to his room and collected his clothes to go bathe. He went to the kitchen, saw his Mom making dinner and went and hugged her from behind. He had a habit of playing with her Saree pallo. She was chopping onions, she stopped, put down her knife and turned to hug her son back. Asked him about the day. And so began the daily ritual of entering the kitchen and talking to his Mom before he went for a shower. He went and sat down on a wooden bench, the kinds of which you find in roadside chai shops. Was it these benches that made one wa...

Na Aaye Ho, Na Aaoge, Na Phone Pe Bulaoge Na Shaam Ki Karaari Chai, Labo'n Se Yun Pilaoge Na Aaye Ho, Na Aaoge, Na Din Dhale Sataoge Na Raat Ki Nashili Bye Se Neendh Mein Jagaoge Gaye Tum Gaye Ho Kyun, Yeh Raat Baaki Hai Gaye Tum Gaye Ho Kyun, Saath Baaki Hai Gaye Tum Gaye Hum Tham Gaye Har Baat Baaki Hai Gaye Kyun Toh Jiyein Kyun ~ Jaideep Sahni ~~ Dum Maro Dum If there was one word to describe Maya, it would be boisterous. She was cheerful, noisy and always wanted to do something. Sitting at ease was never really her thing. Her father was in the Army and a General now. She had grown up in the Armed forces. And loved that life, that discipline, that honor, that pride, that came out of serving one's nation was unmatchable to anything else in the world. And Maya was proud to be a part (well semi-part) of that legacy. She grew up like any other army daughter, with loads of love and pampering. The fact that she was the only child added to the pampering. She ...

Tum pass aaye Yun muskuraye Tum ne na jaane kya sapne dikhaye Ab to mera dil Jaage na sota hain Kya karoon haye Kuch kuch hota hai ~Sameer ~~ Kuch Kuch Hota Hai October 18th 2011, Tuesday, I see a post on Shahrukh’s Google+ profile. He says he is going to “hangout” with his fans on Thursday, October 20th . I read it once and then I read it once again, it was true, and he was actually coming. 340 people +1’ed that post and some 150 commented. I was one of those 340 and 150. This was my chance to talk to Shah, hear him say my name, see him sitting in front of me! But, there were millions of others who were like me, his ‘biggest fans’ waiting to hear him. Google had opened the doors to millions of dreams. All we spoke about at work on Wednesday was how Thursday was going to be the biggest day of our lives! And Thursday, all status messages on buzz, facebook, Google +, twiiter were about Shah hanging out at 3pm IST. There was a full page advert on Delhi/Bangalore/Bo...