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METROSCAPE
L'affaire Italia
He had first seen
Italy as a boy of 10. Today, 15 years later, Ishan Khosla is a man out
to make his fascination an exhibition of photographs titled Sempre Italia
(Forever Italy). The result of a three-month sojourn in "ageless"
Italy, the show will be on at Mumbai's Nehru Centre from July 31 to August
6. Khosla, a computer grad by chance, a shutterbug by choice, captures
the Italian zest for life, but his oeuvre in black would haunt you more:
the Greek temple at Selinunte, an artist readying for a street performance.
Khosla digitally converts plaid shots into a "combination of art
and science", be it Jesus Christ or ghostly Italian monuments. The
affair continues.
-Natasha
Israni
 LEAN
CUISINE: Models starve to keep their bodies
buff. Wrong. They do it with honest exercise. So says self-styled Bangalore
fashion guru Prasad Bidapa (left) in his fat, 300-page cookbook for models,
Catwalk Cuisine. In it, Bidapa rustles up recipes of sinful desserts and
no-nos like fried steaks. So eat, he says. Compiled with Mumbai food writer
Parwana Boga Noorani, the book also has about 60 models-including Marc
Robinson, Rahul Dev, Meher Jessia, Achla Sachdev-listing recipes of their
favourite eats. At the "celebration, not a launch" of the book-out
a month ago-at Mumbai's Oberoi, Bidapa said: "Nobody knows what it
is to feed these models." Costly fare, at Rs 575.
-Himanshi
Dhawan
 DESIGNER
LINES: Can't blame him if he still looks a
model and everybody knows him as one. But Gautam Kapoor (second from right)-Gomzi
to friends and better known these days as sultry actress Suman Ranganathan's
better half-has moved on, as garment producer and exporter with designers
working under him for a change. At Mumbai's Le Meridien last week, a 15-minute
show introduced Kapoor's Gomzi Activewear Line which he insisted was "before
time as these style trends will hit Europe and America only in the next
season". Pitching in were friends Marc Robinson (far right), Achala
Sachdev, Tora Kashgir and Rahul Dev. But the evening's showstealers were
emcee Suchitra Pillai (far left) in a plunging black and white halter
and Ranganathan in a shimmering white salwar kurta that was definitely
not a Gomzi creation.
-Natasha
Israni
Cereal Thrills
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As India's largest producer of corn, Karnataka
does not go beyond munching Kellogg's cereals for breakfast and hot popcorn
at the movies. Now did you know that? The state Government must have.
For, at last week's Maize Mela at Bangalore's Kanteerva Stadium, the Karnataka
State Agro Corn Products introduced some slick packaging to push the crop:
exotic maize biscuits, puffs, and soup powders. Also significant-not only
because she was sporting earrings and bangles made of popcorn- was the
presence of visiting Brit Ingrid Everall whose father Martin Jacoby, a
Jewish refugee, is credited with importing popcorn from Canada and making
popcorn machines a reality in India in 1955.
-Stephen
David
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