The deck beneath your feet, the sky above your head, the wind billowing the sails and driving you on… it’s not surprising that today, looking beyond badminton and tennis and other sports, a lot of you

Caught these guys on VH1 the other day with their track Let’s go surfing (how long has it been since a song had a catchy whistle instead of a hook?). Two years old, some members have been in the working musician business for a while. Jonathan Pierce (vocals) already had a band called first, Goat Explosion and then Elkland while guitarist Jacob Graham had a record deal with his band Horse Shoes.

Once outside the cocooning of school, youngsters discover that a college campus is a microcosm of the big bad world — a predictive prelude to personality types and situations you will encounter as an adult. And like canteen philosopher, Rancho, in 3 Idiots, life-explaining, diktat-expounding preachers are aplenty — after all, if anything in life is free, it is advice. But as the life-enriching, senior sages get into overdrive, are the teens listening?

Can you imagine a life where you require help for every small and basic thing? Well this is the kind of life that many unfortunate people are living because of one reason or the other. One such problem that causes difficulties in life is cerebral palsy (CP). It is not just the physical disability that takes a toll on the child, but also the many psychological issues it brings with it. As a child affected by CP, I used to often wonder where life was taking me.

You may have often seen schoolgirls and boys these days with a Blackberry or the latest PSP in the market. Some are also brand conscious and follow fashion trends around the world religiously.

Justin Roberts, a bespectacled man playing the guitar and singing songs about relationships and facing rough patches of life, is now a rage among teenagers across the globe.

Excitement. Fervour. Hysteria. Madness. And the rollercoaster ride begins on June 11 on your TV screens!

The class XII results are out and students are gearing up to begin college life. To many, with college comes freedom, and this freedom also represents being able to do things that were previously banned. Chennai’s college going crowd is now looking up different ways to mark a ‘rite of passage’, like colouring their hair, a piercing or even a tattoo.

For a change, here’s an interesting futuristic touch media device named Magnum from our very own Indian manufacturer, LACS.

Familiarity may or may not breed contempt but it does take the edge off admiration. And yes, it also breeds children!