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Fashion weeks are always a mix of some real good shows and some real bad ones… and often one gets stuck in dual shows where a really bad show is followed by a nicer showing where you are forced to watch the first one in anticipation of the second!

Luckily, some of the not-so-good ones were pushed towards the beginning itself and as the day progressed, so did the quality of the showings and it culminated in a fabulous off site presentation by Tarun Tahiliani, the King of Drapes. Novelty of his showing started with the venue itself. The terrace of the recently-opened Blue Frog restaurant with a nice view of Qutub Minar and a 120-feet fashion runway (which managed to massage the egos of many as it offered several front row seating on both sides) and an impressive lineup of 52 garments. Even as the guests somewhat shuddered, models braved the chilly night displaying neatly embroidered and well draped ensembles in myriad shapes and styles. No doubt, it sure was one of the best from the designer’s stable.

Pero by Aneet Arora had her signature style of maximum style with a minimalist attitude. Her ability to put together her ensembles by adding more than one and her simplistic approach towards her designs and styling have made her collection once again stand out on the runway. She is one of the few who has managed to sustain herself successfully without really altering her looks.

Akaaro by Gaurav Jai Gupta with traces of sheen by his clever way of employing Swarovski crystals, and his western silhouettes done quite chic have made his collection an interesting one. Anaikka by Kanika Saluja Choudhry was outstanding for a debutant designer. Her ability was proven with impeccable finishing and styling and the way she treated the surfaces.

Rishta by Arjun Saluja too was a very chic and stylish line up of well made garments. The designer as always employed dual forms through structures and fluidity through his collection. He chose to go slightly softer on his silhouettes as opposed to his usual very masculine approach and that proved to be refreshingly different this time.

Kavita Bhartia while leaving most of her garments with plain surfaces at the bottom parts, did some very interesting surface ornamentations on the upper parts and came out with a collection that was simple in appeal yet elegant in its overall look.

Nachiket Barve as usual played well on his surface texturing and came out with colours that were energetic and textures that were not just pretty but strategically placed as well while Rakesh Agarwal made a comeback with a very impressive lineup of exquisite drapes and fully embroidered short fitted skirts, gowns and jackets in gold.

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Posted by Vinod Nair on Friday, February 17, 2012 at 1:25 am 
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  • Abu Ahmed

    People appreciate purposeful Yatras, whether on foot or vehicle. Self-serving Yatras don’t cut much ice with the Janta, however much attractive be the media build-up.

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  • http://www.vacationpackagesindia.us/ Alldtipp

    Tour to India is a great opportunity to experience the splendid tourist destinations of India. There is so much to discover in India. It is an ancient land with world-view which is unique in the world.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/avinash.sethi Avinash Sethi

    Rightly put that these politicians should reach the people every year. They should do pad-yatra rather than (five star) rath yatra, only then they may be able to understand the hardships of common man.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_URSXATBEMZ7HUAB3OH36PLYWDM Ashok

    Jayalalithaa may not be happy with prostrations alone, might like to have a stab at the premiership as well.

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    Anonymous Reply:
    February 4th, 2012 at 4:17 am

    That is what ‘empresses’ are for.

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  • Anonymous

    Sanghvi as usual is playing apologist for Congress. He is shifting all blame on DMK giving clean chit to Sonia and Rahul. What makes him think that Sonia and Rahul did not make money out of 2G scam?

    Congress is also involved in CWG scams..Now Sanghvi will hold only Kalmadi responsible for this.

    MMS may be an honest man but he has enabled corruption so that his bosses can make money.

    The journos like Sanghvi can not defend congress shamelessly anymore. We still remember Radia tapes.

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  • Anonymous

    @ Vir Sanghvi

    Dr Manmohan Singh would have continued to rule well… but the advent of CHotta baba and his guru, Digvinash singh, made to Congress insult MMS to make Chotta baba look good.

    In the end, the COngress looks like a third rate party willing to sell everything for votes. It makes fun of the policemen in the Batla house encounter, is willing to follow the Jinnah agenda to win elections in UP and calls Bin Laden “Osmaji.”

    It deserves a kcik in the rump — whihc we will all give.

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  • http://profile.yahoo.com/R5S7U3VKZUK34HKY2NILPXRKRY Deep

    Excellent analysis, write and read. And the truth of the matter.

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  • Abu Ahmed

    The calculations of the UPA govt were quite simple: Let Raja make money for his bosses. Eventually he would be cuaght in the web and his crimes exposed. Judicial process would get rolling, licenses would be cancelled. This would lead to making auction of all natural resources to the the highest bidder a policy issue. Auctioning of 2G spectrum would recover all the losses and more for the UPA, thereby enriching the govt’s coffers. If not a moral, it will be legally clean and the finances of the country would improve. So, the UPA saved itself all these years, allowed Raja & DMK to be made the scape-goat (after all DMK got the lion’s share), and in the next elections it would be able to face the public with less tar and lesser fear of the voter. DMK alone is the Faustus which had paid the price already, UPA is setting the record and the budget straight after all and would come up trumps, despite Sangh Parivaar’s machinations

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  • Ravi

    Balwant

    I totally agree with you

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    Anonymous Reply:
    February 8th, 2012 at 9:35 am

    Please dont spread hatred and lies here as u do everywehre. Otherwise I will ask Rajeev and Shenoy to visit this blog/

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_URSXATBEMZ7HUAB3OH36PLYWDM Ashok

    The concept underlying NCTC is sound. It should be taken up for serious implementation when circumstances are more supportive. The state police forces have their limitations and are certainly not equipped to effectively counter a problem which has such a large external dimension.

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  • Girish Nayak

    Even now if citizens of all states do not want Modi as PM then atleast create any person like Modi in every state as a CM who can work what modi has done for Gujarat.

    There after Congress will never come to power like in Gujarat. There will no voting on base of cast or religion all are equals no one specials, no appeasment

    Select Modi of your state and enjoy real democracy with development.

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  • Mohit

    Mr Zia Haq is behaving media personal manager, just for some free bies from, Salman Khurshid, No doubt Mr Salman Khurshid is a good human being, no doubt about it, but as far as politician is concerned he has some shortcomings also one must accept that but writer here is blind follower of mr Salman Khurshid

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  • anil

    [The general view in the Congress, I am told, is that Khurshid’s utterances while wooing Muslim voters in UP led to a “ c o m m u n a l i z a t i o n ” of the party’s electioneering platform and this hurt the party.]

    Yes, he missed the under laying message that ” c o m m u n a l i z a t i o n of society is ok but not the “platform” that pays dividends and brings long term benefit.

    Salman’s decisions are indeed short sighted, although, there is not much difference between what he wants and his party man/women want. Poor Salman! He should have grown up a bit!

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    anil Reply:
    May 20th, 2012 at 11:14 pm

    [In other words, my question is what stops a politician from selling a policy-decision taken by his government to the electorate? At the cost of repeating, let me rephrase that once again: in a parliamentary democracy, what prevents a politician from highlighting his party’s affirmative action agenda? The short answer is, nothing.]

    See above for answer where I said “communatization of society is OK” but not the “platform”.

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  • http://profiles.google.com/brazenecks007 pradeep kumar

    Good place to write a biased article, just show your loyalties.

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  • Abu Ahmed

    A leader committed to the all-round growth of India and all Indians is any day my leader, regardless of his/her name or religion.

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  • Abu Ahmed

    Salman Khurshid’s problem is that he is too much UP-centric to wear a pan-Indian Muslim leader tag. If he wishes to lay claim over leadership of Muslims, he will have to at least visit central India, like Hyderabad, once in a while and also go to bangaluru, chennai, mallapuram – apart from Guwahati and Ahmedabad (if he is daring enough) and make himself aware of the Muslim issues there. Unfortunately, all these so-called Muslim leaders, either of the Congress or of the SP, cannot see beyond UP and are hampered with their frog’s-view and yet want party, people and country to accept them as great Muslim leaders – that is why they fail. That is why the Congress too have failed in UP – u cannot allow Narender Modi to continue in Gujarat while claiming to be a secular party.

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    Sumit Bose Reply:
    May 22nd, 2012 at 10:00 pm

    @Abu, I am totally confused about the direction of this post. Where does NM come in your line of rationale?
    This is just akin to the Pakistanis blaming even earthquakes to the “Kashmir problem”, droughts and floods to India, like the Arab states blaming Israel for their failed economies.
    Come on, you have had the benefit of some education, work those grey cells out of the madrassa pits.

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    Abu Ahmed Reply:
    May 23rd, 2012 at 9:30 am

    Congress’s commitment to secularism leaves much to be desired – that is why they lost elections in UP. Instead of addressing this issue, they are searching for scape-goats. Narender Modi is a symbol of a politics where coming and staying in power is all that counts, mass murder or ethnic cleansing notwithstanding. Sorry – N Modi stands for the worst in politics. Gujarat was always an industrial & trading hub. N Modi tricked others in believing its success story to be his personal one – thats a slap on the age-old enterprising spirit & industry of all Gujaratis.

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    Sumit Bose Reply:
    May 24th, 2012 at 3:28 am

    @ Abu, Your emotional rant flies in the face of logic.
    Ethnic ( rather religious) cleansing has been aggressively persued by Islamic societes. Just look at the census figures of Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq Egypt, Iran, ndonesia, Malaysia etc etc. That brutal record should silence you, even if you are totally blank on the religious cleansing carried out so throughly in the Kashmir valley just 2 decades ago. But you rave and rant. The real reason, is that Hindus in Gujarat had collectively decided that they would not tolerate any more provocations from one paricularly nasty community.

    RajX Reply:
    May 27th, 2012 at 6:20 pm

    You rant against Modis massacre but you are quiet about a hundred times bigger massacre of nonmuslims in Kashmir. Shows that you are just another communal muslim. People have figured out now that Muslims are very different because the forces of arabization have successfully done their dirty deed on Muslims everywhere. So go on ranting for ummah but not for humanity. No secular person will believe that you are sincere.

  • MerkMan

    Franck, Israel has many nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver them. If Israels stated goal was to “Wipe Iran off the Map”, it has the technology to accomplish that task in about 20 minutes. It has had this capacity for about 30 years by most accounts. The fact that Israel has been through 2 wars of aggression against it by its neighbor countries in that time as well as being tormented by militants funded in no small part by Iran for all of that time, you still consider them the greatest threat to international Peace? You are smoking crack Franck, history demonstrates all the Jews want to do is live and be left alone. The mullahs in Iran and the corrupt states that surround Israel despise it’s very existence and have pledged to erase Israel from the middle east. I don’t hear noises like that coming from Israel, do you?

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