Fashion fever

India Fashion Week is here again, and Delhi is suddenly full of models, designers and scarily well-dressed journalists. Coerced by a sadistic friend into attending the festivities at the Grand, I spent a day watching stylish types sail around with a mixture of wonder and fear. ?Am I the only unfashionable person left in the world?? I wondered, until I found what I thought was an oasis ? a few other ugly, scruffy, overweight men having what I thought was the only non-fashion conversation open to being eavesdropped upon in a one-kilometre radius. Eavesdrop I did, and this is what I heard ? ?Rocky S was totally awesome, no??. ?Yeah, I loved the jewelled tanktops. But I hear Shantanu Goenka?s the one with the buzz this year.? Why, God? Why?

Haute and happening lMy FAVOURITE CEREBRAL ACTRESS, Mallika Sherawat, is going to keep the Indian colours flying at the Cannes film festival this year, as part of the promotion tour for Jackie Chan?s new movie, The Myth. lSleepinginairports.net is a travel-guide website about, well, sleeping in airports. It gives the award for the World?s Worst Airports to Sleep In to India, which it says ?only has one airport rated ?good?, but only because it was a better alternative to sleeping in one of their hotels?. They advise unfortunate travellers to go to the nearest bar instead and drink the pain away. The cast of the film To the Indian cricket team, with love and best wishes. Hopefully, their joy at having won something ? anything ? will help them manage to win a tournament one day.

Haute and happening

God?s man in Rome

I?m an ex-student of a Catholic school, and was really hoping that long-shot candidate, Cardinal Ivan Dias of Mumbai, would somehow be elected Pope. A week into Pope Benedict XVI?s tenure, and the papers are still full of Joseph ?God?s Rottweiler? Ratzinger and his ultra-orthodox past. The list isn?t very encouraging ? the former Hitler Youth member, army deserter and head of the successor office to the Inquisition is renowned for his anti-Marxist, anti-atheist, anti-homosexual, anti-feminist rantings and his dislike of other faiths and liberal Catholics alike. He has called Buddhism an ?autoerotic spirituality? that would replace Marxism as the Catholic Church?s main enemy this century ? while Hinduism?s ?morally cruel? concept of reincarnation reminds him of a ?continuous circle of hell?. Dias, on the other hand, was a friend of Mother Teresa and is renowned for his efficiency, erudition and eloquence. The Lord certainly does move elections in mysterious ways.

Haute and happening lMy FAVOURITE CEREBRAL ACTRESS, Mallika Sherawat, is going to keep the Indian colours flying at the Cannes film festival this year, as part of the promotion tour for Jackie Chan?s new movie, The Myth. lSleepinginairports.net is a travel-guide website about, well, sleeping in airports. It gives the award for the World?s Worst Airports to Sleep In to India, which it says ?only has one airport rated ?good?, but only because it was a better alternative to sleeping in one of their hotels?. They advise unfortunate travellers to go to the nearest bar instead and drink the pain away. The cast of the film To the Indian cricket team, with love and best wishes. Hopefully, their joy at having won something ? anything ? will help them manage to win a tournament one day.

lMy FAVOURITE CEREBRAL ACTRESS, Mallika Sherawat, is going to keep the Indian colours flying at the Cannes film festival this year, as part of the promotion tour for Jackie Chan?s new movie, The Myth.

Sleeping grounded

Haute and happening lMy FAVOURITE CEREBRAL ACTRESS, Mallika Sherawat, is going to keep the Indian colours flying at the Cannes film festival this year, as part of the promotion tour for Jackie Chan?s new movie, The Myth. lSleepinginairports.net is a travel-guide website about, well, sleeping in airports. It gives the award for the World?s Worst Airports to Sleep In to India, which it says ?only has one airport rated ?good?, but only because it was a better alternative to sleeping in one of their hotels?. They advise unfortunate travellers to go to the nearest bar instead and drink the pain away. The cast of the film To the Indian cricket team, with love and best wishes. Hopefully, their joy at having won something ? anything ? will help them manage to win a tournament one day.

lSleepinginairports.net is a travel-guide website about, well, sleeping in airports. It gives the award for the World?s Worst Airports to Sleep In to India, which it says ?only has one airport rated ?good?, but only because it was a better alternative to sleeping in one of their hotels?. They advise unfortunate travellers to go to the nearest bar instead and drink the pain away.

Ready to roll

The cast of the film

How difficult is it for you when a book you've grown up dreaming about and worshipping gets made into a Hollywood movie? The new Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy movie, with Stephen Fry and Sam Rockwell, has just been released worldwide, and Douglas Adams fans everywhere have their fingers crossed and their eyes tightly closed ? not the ideal movie-watching position, definitely. Viewers of initial screenings in London got free towels, though, so clearly there are some ?hoopy froods? involved in the process. I almost died of anxiety before first watching Lord of the Rings, so this time I?m keeping a medical unit on call.

AWARD OF THE WEEK

To the Indian cricket team, with love and best wishes. Hopefully, their joy at having won something ? anything ? will help them manage to win a tournament one day.