Seniors are Welcome !

                    Old Friends, New Perspectives. Old friends, old and new jokes, peppered with interesting anecdotes,make for an evening full of laughter and joy. That is how a few of us gathered at a friend’s house nearby, and the evening just flew by on wings. Amazingly,there was such a striking resemblance between two brothers, at the get together,that we joked that they were indistinguishable from each other,and maybe could travel on each other’s passports ! But reality is always stranger than fiction, and they regaled us with real life stories of how people had tied themselves in knots at different functions ,coming across first one, then the other, and   being completely foxed ! Travel is now taking off with a vengeance,after the enforced isolation caused by the pandemic. And there are literally, no bookings available for popular and not so popular destinations. The Indian traveller is no longer interested in the ghisa p...

            Chandigarh Based Kathak Dancer Nandita Puri and her Troupe. Chandigarh is fast becoming a cultural hub, and Ghungroo ki Jhankar by Sector 8 based Kathak artiste Nandita Puri, showed the musical way to our hearts. Nandita Puri and Gauri Sharma Tripathi,internationally renowned Kathak dancers,came together with their troupe ,to dazzle Chandigarh with their classical dance performances,at the CCA open air auditorium in the PEC campus on Nov12. It was a Dazzling Display of intricate footwork, fluid motion and dance drama,ably accompanied by a renowned flutist and on tabla. The younger artistes,Tarini,et all,ably contributed with their zest and energetic footwork, to keep the audience spell bound, and experience and youth contributed to set the stage for a spell binding night. If Architecture is the art of flowing lines,then Kathak dance is the Performing Art of fluid motion,that melded together in a heart warming performance that kept the winter ch...

                         " Enjoy the Coffee'* The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems, but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect.” A group of graduates, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.  Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the coffee.  When all the students had a cup of coffee, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the simple and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is also the major source of your problems and ...