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NECK: Winners by Roy (from above), Dewan and Chibber |
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The search is for
"warmth, spirituality and sensuality" ... and this is not an
ad for a rare, multi-dimensional spouse. These are, in fact, the the core
values the World Gold Council seeks in designs for its biannual international
gold jewellery design competition. And Indians seem to have scored on
all three fronts when the winners Gold Virtuosi 2000 were announced recently
in Vicenza in Italy. Of the 3,500 entries worldwide, five Indian designs
were declared joint winners along with 30 others. Last week at Mumbai's
Taj Hotel, neck-ringed models paraded the successful 22-carat pieces inspired
by nature and the personal experience of designers like Raja Roy, Vrinda
Chibber and Sangeeta Dewan. Fashion designers please move over.
—Himanshi Dhawan
Rugby Union
 This
is the star spangled world of celebrity rugby. Last week at the Bombay
Gymkhana, there was a smattering of red and blue T-shirts when Akshaye
Khanna, Saif Ali Khan, model Kelly Dorji, Leander Paes, stand-up comic
Ash Chandler, thespian Bharat Dabholkar, restaurateur A.D. Singh and others
roughed each other up in earnest contest. Despite Famous XV team captain
Marc Robinson's display of strength at the outset, it was eventually Ambience
D'Arcy's Ashok Kurein, the captain of The Famous Grouse Finest XV, who
led his team to a 10-5 victory. Off the field activities were as hectic-Kavita
Khanna, Ramona Garware, Lara Dutta, Amrita Singh vied with each other
in looking good and hooting wildly for the men. And yes, now they also
know the men from the boys.
—Natasha Israni
Old Route
 Every
day for four decades, Rhoda D'Souza took a tram from home to her workplace
in Kolkata's business district of Dalhousie. But she hasn't been on one
for over 10 years. So last week when HelpAge India organised for her and
64 others from five homes for the elderly to take a tram ride as part
of a day-long outing on the International Day for Older Persons, D'Souza,
71, was thrilled. "I'm enjoying every minute of it," she giggled.
Taking the nostalgia route, too, were Bangla Rock band Cactus, who did
a sing-along of Tagore songs. ("We toned it down a bit," a band
member admitted.) The audience looked like they could have had it louder.
—Labonita Ghosh
Fits Of Fusion
  This
time the fusion made sense. At "inFusion", the musical amalgamation
at Mumbai's Oberoi Hotel last week, performers, including jazz top dog
Louis Banks (below, right), percussionist Taufeeq Qureshi, tabla player
Ustaad Shabir Khan (below), bassist Karl Peters and sarod kids Ayaan and
Amaan Ali Bangash, tried out different melodic coalitions as a part of
the 100 Pipers Pure Music Concert Series. The blemish, if any, was that
instead of a blend, some simply resorted to the more convenient, though
hackneyed, trick of jugalbandi. The audience, with singers like Gary Lawyer
and Sunita Rao, jazzist Niranjan Jhaveri, choreographer Sangeeta Chopra
and model Tarun Raghavan, looked like they were enjoying the performances.
Guess that's the point.
—Natasha Israni
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