Happily Married-Twice!

You have to hand it to industrialist Yash and wife Avanti Birla For all their highsociety friends their edgy avant garde flower childmeetsmuscle man appearance and their penchant for bopping to EDM music at hotspots around the world with people half their age mdash they still appear a bit guileless and old fashioned in many waysWhich is when news of their recent remarriage on the occasion of their twenty fifth wedding anniversary held in Rishikesh this weekend was received no one was too surprised The couple who is seldom seen apart is known to be devoted to each other and their three kids and is very family orientedIt was a simple traditional ceremony and both looked lovely against the backdrop of the flowers and chanting said a source adding This is going to inspire many other married couples to renew their vows to each other too IndeedLove me love my docAs reported on these pages a week ago actress Rani Mukherjee wife of Bollywoods leading producer Adi Chopra who is a great believer in the benefits of the Austrian Spa Viva Mayr hosted two of its doctors over the weekend at the YRF studio and introduced them to some leading members of the Mumbai film industryParineeti Chopra Anushka Sharma and Rani MukherjeeOver high tea and another dinner that night the likes of Anushka Sharma Salman Khan and Parineeti Chopra met with the visiting doctors to hear about nutrition and health and the spas benefits and were seen conferring with them about their health and wellness issuesIt was so that other members of her fraternity could be persuaded to try the spa said a source Though arguably none of this was necessary as the glowing actress a regular at the institution is brand ambassador enoughWordItrsquos been seen as a war of words between two of the countryrsquos leading wordsmiths best selling author and influential commentator Chetan Bhagat at one end of the ring facing ad guru playwright director and the man behind the witty Amul ads that bring a smile to Indiarsquos daily life Rahul da Cunha on the otherChetan Bhagat and Rahul da CunhaThe fight is about another wordsmith albeit a much more famous one mdash William Shakespeare himself Apparently Bhagatrsquos famous penchant for shooting his mouth off resulted in his declaring that lsquoWilliam Shakespeare sits with a dictionary amp chooses the most difficult word while he the simplestrsquoDa Cunha who knows a thing or two about words couldnrsquot stop giggling when we asked him about this My two cents worth said Da Cunha 1 The Bard is dead so Irsquom thinking lsquosatrsquo better than lsquositsrsquo 2 No dictionaries in 1564 he said adding the clincher 3 As you like it much ado nothing very very hard wordsAs for Da Cunharsquos much awaited debut novel about growing up in a changing India he said Itrsquos crazy Every one seems to be writing book after book some even in 3 months and here I am still working after three years on mine Why the delay Things keep on changing and the writer in me cannot stop wanting to write about events as they occur The Kanhaiya Kumar story for instance Itrsquos so rivetingTelling TalesHumans tell stories all the time We also tell tall tales white lies and halftruths and make up fictional details for various reasons said gallerist author and story coach Anupa Mehta about two forthcoming workshops that she will be conducting this weekend with the enigmatic titles lsquoWhatrsquos Your Storyrsquo and lsquoTruth Lies amp FictionrsquoAnupa MehtaSometimes these stories become our noose The purpose of my workshops is to allow people to take a sharper look at their own life story and to examine gaps in their own narrative said Mehta who recently published a book of short stories How did she train for this and what kind of people sign up I draw from the various traditions she said listing trainers coaches and even a psychiatrist among others who signed up last yearThe general feedback across the board has been that the simplicity of the approach allows both catharsis as well as creative rescripting if you will I build on the idea of the group as an anchor and lsquothe comfort of strangersrsquo to allow people to process what they need to As for Truth Lies and Fiction as someone who has to sift daily to the haul of stories wersquore told this diarist thinks an apter title would be hard to findHello goodbye helloGuests at a recent high society wedding were treated to the spectacle of a highprofile oncemarried couple whose bitter break up had been the subject of magazine articles indulging in some remarkable PDAThey met each other with affection were seen laughing and talking together and even spotted dancing together said a source Whatrsquos more they didnrsquot appear to care that every one was staring She said adding And while leaving the wife was positively glowing with delightSo what about the new man in her life her husband who is said to be antagonistic to her ex He wasnrsquot present on the occasion said the source I think he was travelling abroad on work Hmm