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Metro Minutes
 Neelam
Verma didn't need a clincher after she had impressed judges at the Miss
India-Canada contest at Toronto with a round of scorching flamenco. But
this sealed it: "I would have loved to be reborn in the 1970s because
that was the period that saw the fight for women's emancipation."
Appropriately 1970s screen idol Zeenat Aman was the chief guest and Verma,
23, says that she would love to work in Hindi films. Yes, they desperately
need emancipation too.
 Khoj,
a platoon of artists specialising in international art camps, is now selling
velvet-lined trunkfuls of aluminium goodies at an exhibition in Delhi's
Art Inc. ... to make enough money for their next workshop. For Rs 15,000-and
they call it a steel-you get a laundry stackup of three shirts, a set
of false teeth (by Anita Dube, left), a keyless padlock and other banal
attachments elevated to art. There's even a burnished breast with a nipple
... but you've got to buy two trunks if you want a pair.
 Delhi's
Grand Hyatt celebrated its first anniversary with a fashion show by Mumbai
designers Shaina N.C. and Hemant Trevedi. More fashion? Ugghh ... But
wait, the surprise lay in the models and not really the clothes-Zohra
Sehgal, Sharan Rani, Anjolie Ela Menon, Bulbul Sharma, Nonita Lal Qureshi,
Sushma Seth and more than a dozen other "women achievers". For
Manpreet Brar it was business as usual.
 DASH
DEVILS: Bangalore speed merchants Prakruthi Banwasi and Divya Raghuram
(above), bestride a 100-cc Suzuki Fiero, have carved what they call a
Karnatak Trail by connecting all the 27 district headquarters in a record
time of 49 hours 46 minutes. "We have practised skidding for hours,
tested the brakes on every surface and both of us have dismantled the
bike completely and put it back ourselves," says Banwasi, a National
Law School graduate who sporadically deaccelerates into compering Udaya
TV shows with his navigator-pillion rider Raghuram. Next: an India Trail
linking 28 state capitals from October 1 ... in 31 days or less. Don't
be too surprised to see some live coverage.
-Stephen
David
 OLD
GUARD: As usual, the preview of Christie's upcoming sale of contemporary
Indian art in New York was shown in Delhi's double-decker Vadehra Art
Gallery. The paintings, a daunting quantity of "Modernist" art,
were admired by a lively gathering of artists, many of whom were their
authors. M.F. Husain made a cameo appearance, but among those who lasted
longer were veterans Anjolie Ela Menon, Krishen Khanna, Paramjeet Singh
and A. Ramachanchran (below, from right), along with Christie's reps Mallika
Sagar and Robin Dean. Younger artists (and their works) were absent as
usual. They don't sell.
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