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The Svarpana meeting place in Lajpat Nagar could give you an impression of a regular music school. But it?s a rather serious (in a good way) gathering of some creative souls.

My father makes a long-distance call to my eight-year-old every evening. On one such occasion last week, I heard her firming up plans to go with him, when she next visits Kolkata, and see the house in which he grew up.

Shivnarayan Pandey, the taxi driver whose testimony got the death penalty for three of the prime accused in the 2003 Gateway blast case, has ceased to exist.

Neha Khandelwal, a business analyst at a financial services company, has always wanted to do her bit for a social cause but never found the time.

The list sounds like a Page 3 party - Fleur Xavier, Ujjwala Raut, Farrokh Chothia, Tarun Khiwal, Milind Soman - but there is more than that. It's almost as if you're spending quality time with them while looking at their photographs. With designer Suneet Varma completing two decades in the fashion industry, he's decided that it's time to revisit the past.

The idea is this: we reproduce quotes from movies we loved about teachers (thank you, IMDB) and you get inspired to rent the DVDs of, like they taught us to say in school, the following.

Walk when you talk, it's like a chant running through my head. Especially since Abhishek Bachchan says the same in a recent mobile phone commercial. It sets me thinking - perhaps it's the best way to shake me out of my fat, sedentary lifestyle.

There are times when you want to thank the satellites above that there are 24-hour news channels. That's where one first heard the news of YSR Reddy's missing helicopter and that's where one got the latest updates, all through the day and night.