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It’s Cupid’s month after all. Is it any wonder we hear wedding bells ringing for Hotmail’s Sabeer Bhatia, arguably India’s most eligible bachelor (if it’s money, fame and good looks you’re after, that is), then' And the lucky girl here is not a certain actress everyone’s been talking about. Bhatia has his heart set on Washington-based attorney Geeta Oberoi. The two are set to marry in the US in February, and will follow it up with a grand reception in Bangalore in March. “We met at a semi-professional gathering. What endeared him to me was his honesty, values and integrity,” reveals Oberoi. That’s three reasons added to the ones we mentioned for marrying him. Sigh!

Snore no more

She’s desperate to get rid of her nickname. Norah Snorah Jones makes a noisier comeback this Tuesday with her second album, Feels Like Home, after one-and-a-half years. The album, she says, is a departure from the slow numbers of her Grammy-sweeping first album, Come Away With Me. The 24-year-old singer-songwriter-pianist is also finally finding her roots. Jones was seen merrily pub-hopping and ethnic-clothes shopping with half-sister Anoushka Shankar in Delhi last week. And this was the girl at the Grammys last year vehemently denying the Indian Connection! The half-sisters bonded and posed for photographs like best pals. How times change.

At his discretion

When Mrinal Sen isn’t making films that don’t become blockbusters , he’s writing a book that might just be a bestseller. Tentatively titled Happenings: Discreet Entries of an Indiscreet Person, Sen’s almost-autobiographical book will feature his experiences with the likes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. “Of course I’ll write about Marquez. We’re friends,” he says. He finishes writing next month.

Run, Anil, run

All that fitness freakishness is paying off for Reliance honcho Anil Ambani. He will be seen matching the likes of Zola Budd for pace at the Mumbai International Marathon next week. Considering he jogs 15 km everyday, it should be a cakewalk.