Star World decided to have a marathon of Castle on January 1 and while most of you were sleeping off an insane party, I was up at noon watching the marathon. Even I would have to admit that it would have been depressing if I sat to watch the entire marathon on New Year’s Eve gossip! So I watched a couple of episodes during the day

Emma Watson almost quit the Harry Potter series because her shooting schedules clashed with her University examinations. If you thought that young stars, smitten by stardom and fame, set their education aside, then you are in for a surprise. They know that a degree is important and have set their glamorous world aside to finish their education. Some of them have mastered the art of this tightrope act.

Life has become fast. People live on the razor’s edge. They are tense, angry especially while driving because they want to get to their destination quickly and think that they can somehow clear the highway. They honk, skip signals, shoot verbal spears and the slightest provocation is enough for them to pull the “trigger”.

Forgive me for loving it when it says ‘Various Artists’ on the cover. It’s so not cool but there’s something intriguing about albums that feature re-workings of favourite producers or artists. The Bob Dylan tribute I’m Not There was a wonderful case in point. Tori Amos singing Smells Like Teen Spirit was not. But anyway, the album in

There are times when we all feel the need for someone who can reassure us that we are alright. We’ve all been there. Wrong friends are picked before the right ones come along. Loved a person too much and then been betrayed. After going through the pain of losing someone close, I have learnt that learning to look forward to the next hello instead of focussing on the last goodbye helps to let go.

A week has already passed and the New Year wishes are still being exchanged. Time spins and weaves its magic unfolding new trends and fashions purging the old. This New Year the next best thing consists of five letters — S.K.Y.P.E.

Perennial favourites Gossip Girl, How I Met Your Mother and The Vampire Diaries are what teens are looking forward to on the small screen in 2011.

After the Facebook, Twitter and Youtube obsession in the recent years, what can youngsters look forward to in 2011?

Seventeen-year-old Sandeep Prabhakar has his list of New Year resolutions stuck on the mirror, just so that he doesn’t forget them.

My college days were mostly spent in the canteen hanging around a bunch of “gossip girls”. That’s all we did. We ate copious amounts of the famous Jesus and Mary College bhelpuri over incandescent gossip. We were a gang of eight girls and what a gang we were.