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HOT NOT
WHA T ’S

PURELY ETHNIC
INDIAN WEAR
&

NOT
WHA T ’S

HOT

INDO-WESTERN PAIRING AT EVENTS

in the Thai-Indian The Indian wedding fashion scene is slowly seeing
Western influences seep through. Outfits deemed
trendy include jumpsuits or crop tops with dhoti
Community right now pants, paired with embroidered Indian jackets. It’s
finally time to ditch the outdated five-kilo lehenga for
something hip and restrained.

HOT HOT

WORKING AWAY SMART WATCHES
FROM HOME
Whether you have been part The smartwatch – an
of a small startup in Silicon everything-plus-the-kitchen-
Valley or lined the coffers of a sink approach to packing
multinational company in the technology into an oversized
UK, your career aspirations blob of poor battery life – is
are definitely impressive. Your dying. Fortunately, something
fathers and grandfathers have much better is coming in
surely busted their backsides to its place: the smart watch.
become what they are today, Bonafide watchmakers like
but the ideas that the current Casio, Fossil and Timex are
making things you actually
generation brings to the table
NOT will hold you in a better position, NOT want to wear smarter, by
adding features like GPS,
well into the future.
JOINING THE SMARTWATCHES notifications and fitness
FAMILY BUSINESS tracking. Soon, we suspect,
there won’t be a major watch
creator in the world that
doesn’t have some smart
features built into some of its
watches.

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PATERNITY LEAVES INTERESTING
CONTENT IN
As he did after the birth of his BOLLYWOOD
first child, Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg has created buzz by The recent wave of interesting
taking two months’ paternity stories like Bareilly Ki Barfi
leave for the impending arrival and Toilet: Ek Prem Katha
of his second daughter. Masala has breathed new life into
believes this is a step in the an industry that tends to
right direction, as the lack go stale ever so often. More
of paid leave for men hurts actors are breaking the status
parents who want to share quo to present interesting,
the experience of caring for layered characters and
their babies. This contributes scripts. This has led people
NOT to the persistent lag in NOT to outright reject the past
few films by the Khans, who
women’s wages and workforce
PAY INEQUALITY participation. HAVE-BEENS stubbornly continue to play
IN THE RELYING ON 20-somethings on screen well
WORKPLACE STARDOM into their 50s. Is the house of
cards finally falling?

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