‘Anupamaa’: While Vanraj admits that he feels jealous, Anuj confesses his love for Anupamaa

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City Women Magazine
'Anupamaa': While Vanraj admits that he feels jealous, Anuj confesses his love for Anupamaa
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Rajan and Deepa Shahi’s “Anupamaa” will witness a big twist in the upcoming episodes. We recently saw that Vanraj and Kavya come to Mumbai leaving Anupamaa and Anuj shocked. Vanraj doesn’t even leave an opportunity to taunt Anupamaa at the beach and this upsets her a lot. So when Anuj asked her if she is ok, she tells him she is not and also apologised for Vanraj’s behavior.

Later, they go to a restaurant to have food where Anupamaa pats Anuj’s back as he was choking on the food. Vanraj and Kavya also come to the same restaurant and Vanraj sees all this. He goes up to Anupamaa and tells her that she is maligning his family’s reputation by doing all this. He went on to say that the college spark has turned into a full-fledged fire.

 

But Anupamaa questions him that what rights he has on her to ask her such questions. She tells him that she was the one to keep their marriage together because she always kept quiet. Vanraj then admits that he is jealous of her friendship with Anuj.

Later we see that at the restaurant two boys mix some vodka with juice for their friends but it accidentally goes to Anuj and Vanraj.

In the upcoming episode, we will see that Vanraj and Anuj are drunk and they dance their hearts out. Later they engage in a conversation where Anuj confesses to Vanraj that he loves Anupamaa. To know what happens next keep watching “Anupamaa”.

Produced by Rajan Shahi and his mother Deepa Shahi under their banner Shahi Productions Pvt Ltd, “Anupamaa” features Sudhanshu Pandey, Rupali Ganguly, Gaurav Khanna, Madalsa Sharma, Alpana Buch, Arvind Vaidya, Paras Kalnawat, Aashish Mehrotra, Muskan Bamne, Shekhar Shukla, Nidhi Shah, Anagha Bhosale, and Tassnim Sheikh. The show airs on Star Plus.

Lata di overwhelmed by Baiju Mangeshkar and Jatin Sharma’s magical Birthday gift!

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Azhar Khan

The undisputed Melody Queen of India, Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar idolized the late K.L.Saigal, the superstar singer/actor of the ’30s and ’40s who inspired and paved the way for many singers later including herself. All through her childhood, she harbored this great dream and wish to meet him and sing a duet with him. Alas, that was not meant to happen because just a few months before she made a mark on the music scenario, K.L. Saigal, unfortunately, passed away. But this unfulfilled desire lingered on in spite of her meteoric rise and glorious career.

Baiju Mangeshkar (singer/composer and her nephew) expressed this idea to his friend and music associate Jatin Sharma, a composer and very successful music arranger to create a duet using their voices with the help of modern technology. Jatin Sharma rose to this challenge instantly.

On her 92nd birthday, a never before duet of pairing the incredible voices of K.L.Saigal and Lata Mangeshkar for the world to hear this magical partnership! ‘Main Kya Janu Kya Jadu Hai!

Lata di when presented with the melody at the dot of midnight, was extremely overjoyed and overwhelmed with tears, as she heard her voice with Saigal Saab. This is the best gift I have received,” she remarked. “The fulfillment of an unfulfilled dream to sing with Saigal Saab coming to life, seamlessly, thanks to modern technology! “This gift is truly timeless and priceless.”

Ultimate Skincare Routine to Prevent Aging by Dr. Blossom Kochhar

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City Women Magazine
Ultimate Skincare Routine to Prevent Aging by Dr. Blossom Kochhar
Ultimate Skincare Routine to Prevent Aging by Dr. Blossom Kochhar

Aging is a natural process that occurs to every one of us. Some of us age gracefully while some of us need some extra care to keep our skin younger looking. If we follow a healthy diet, sound sleep, and proper skincare routine, we can easily attain healthy and youthful skin.

Here are some of the ultimate skincare routines which can help prevent aging:

Sun Protection:  A sunscreen is the best anti-aging solution. It is one of the most effective ways to protect you from the sun. The sun is responsible for any visible signs of aging on your skin. It can cause dark spots, pigmentation, or even wrinkles. So, it is always advisable to use a broad-spectrum sunscreen (with at least SPF 30) even when you are indoors or on a cloudy day to reduce any visible signs of aging. Besides applying sunscreen, you may wear clothes that have long sleeves, sunglasses, and hats to avoid exposure to the sun and protect your skin from any damage.

Sleep: Our body repairs itself while we are asleep. During sleep, your skin’s blood flow increases, and reduces wrinkles and age spots. It is highly recommended to achieve sleep for around seven to nine hours each. Poor sleep quality in people can be related to other lifestyle issues that often are related to aging. For example: an increase in sleep or anxiety can contribute to sleep deprivation. This will gradually result in visible signs of aging on your skin.

Healthy Eating: Food that is packed with antioxidants properties may improve the skin’s elasticity and protect skin against damage and premature aging. It is important that you focus on what you eat to avoid visible signs of aging. Eat a lot of vegetables and fruits such as green leafy vegetables, bell peppers, broccoli, carrots, etc, and fruits such as pomegranates, blueberries, avocado, etc. You may also include green tea and olive oil in your diet.

Moisturizer: As you grow older it is important that you moisturize your skin regularly. When you apply moisturizer, it traps the water in your skin and keeps it hydrated and fresh. It also helps reduce visible signs of aging such as wrinkles or fine lines. It is recommended that you apply a moisturizer that has Vitamins especially Vitamin C or Vitamin A in it. These ingredients are effective at preventing wrinkles from forming or getting deeper. A moisturizer can do wonderful things to your skin’s appearance but if it has sun protecting properties it will slow down the aging process.

Skin Care Products: When you choose skincare products to prevent visible signs of aging, it is important that you pay special attention to the ingredients in the products. Blossom Kochhar Aroma Magic Reviving Oxy Pack is an overnight pack that detoxifies, conditions, and heals your skin. Organic aloe vera gel along with Lavender Essential Oil supplies a shot of oxygen molecules that instantly energize skin from sun damage and delay aging. Blossom Kochhar Aroma Magic Anti-Aging Combo Pack contains Firming Glow Pack and Firming Gel. This combination lightens your skin tone and gives you an instant facelift. Together they smoothen wrinkles and lines and tightens the skin.

It could be impossible to reverse the time but it is possible to look younger with these changes in your routine. Stay Glowing, Stay Young!

#SkinCare – Best skin hydrating face mask and creams

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City Women Magazine
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It is very important to keep the skin hydrated so that the skin looks fresh and young. In this post, we are sharing with you 5 best skin hydration face masks and creams. m’caffeine Different skins need different levels of moisture, and we surely do understand that! m caffeine give you three levels of moisturization to choose from – oil-free, lightweight and deep moisturization.
L’Oréal Get the perfect nude look with the NEW True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum with 1% Pure Hyaluronic Acid. This face serum foundation is proven to smoothen skin after 6 weeks of daily use. Hyaluronic acid supplements can help your skin look and feel more supple.
lakme Feel an Instant rush of hydration with Lakme Hydra Pro Range. Lakme Absolute Hydra Pro Gel Crème locks in hydration and improves skin texture, reduces moisture loss giving your skin a dewy – fresh, hydrated look. This lightweight gel formula is infused with revolutionary water bank molecule, hyaluronic acid, it instantly plumps up skin. It is clinically proven to instantly boost skin hydration* by 70% and lock in hydration for 72 hours.
Garnier Garnier Hydra Bomb Mask are really worthful. It absorbs moisture from the environment and retains it in the skin, thus ensuring hydration throughout the day. This mask made your skin feel hydrated and amazing and it only took 15 minutes! It was quick and easy to use and it’s also really affordable.

Singer Simantinee Roy releases a foot-tapping number Awaara

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Azhar Khan

Singer-Songwriter and Performer Simantinee Roy’s newest foot-tapping original is ‘Awaara’. After the success of her independent musical releases such as Manchala Mann, Tere Saath, Ki Naame Daakbo, and Brishti her newest independent musical release will make you happy and get you grooving. The storyline of the video complements the lyrics and it portrays a transformational journey.

“Life is like a groovy melody”, says Simantinee Roy- a former Miss Tripura, Miss Photogenic – Miss East India. She believes in experimenting with different music genres and tries to always come up with something new for the audience.

 
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Awaara is written by Rivo, the music is composed by Rakesh Venkatapuram.

The interesting part is the discussion about this song started in Seattle when Neha Kakkar’s band was performing during the North America Tour. Later the song was conceptualized in San Francisco Bay Area, written in Kolkata, music was composed and produced in Hyderabad,  mixed and mastered by Praveen Muralidhar in Bangalore. Although more virtual collaborations started during pandemics, Simantinee has been collaborating virtually like this way much before the pandemic. Its’ a digital stage and she strongly believes in leveraging the power of the digital world.

Awaara, is a foot-tapping number that everyone would be able to groove along with irrespective of their age

Jacqueline Fernandez Gives Angora the ‘Cold Shoulder’ for PETA India

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Azhar Khan
Just in time for International Rabbit Day (25 September), Jacqueline Fernandez stars in a brand-new People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India campaign that asks everyone to turn their backs on cruelty to rabbits by keeping angora out of their wardrobes. “No scarf or sweater is worth tormenting or killing a gentle rabbit,” says Fernandez. “This International Rabbit Day, my friends at PETA India and I are asking everyone to read labels carefully and to leave clothes on the rack if they say ‘angora’!” A PETA Asia investigation into angora farms in China – the world’s largest exporter of angora – documented that workers ripped the hair from rabbits’ sensitive skin as the animals screamed in pain. After enduring this terrifying ordeal every three months for two to five years, the rabbits are hung upside down and their throats are slit. Rabbits who are sheared or whose fur is cut also suffer: their front and back legs are tightly tethered – a terrifying experience for any prey animal – and the sharp cutting tools inevitably wound them as they struggle desperately to escape. Top brands, including Gucci, Calvin Klein, and, most recently, Valentino, have banned angora. Fernandez’s newest film, Bhoot Police, recently debuted on Disney+ Hotstar. She is part of a long list of celebrities – including Raveena Tandon, Sunny Leone, Milind Soman, Ileana D’Cruz, and Dia Mirza – who have teamed up with PETA India to promote animal-free fashion. PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.

9 Simple ways to prevent baby diaper rash

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Neha Bhagat
9 Simple ways to prevent baby diaper rash
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  1. Clean the wet part thoroughly with clean cotton or cotton and warm water to the newborn and allow the water to dry completely.
  2. After that raise both the legs of the newborn and take out his dirty diaper with one hand.
  3. Keep checking the diaper from time to time, do not wear a diaper for more than 13-14 hours.
  4. Always keep one hand on the newborn’s stomach while changing the diaper.
  5. Tie the diaper loosely on the body, so that there are no marks on its skin.
  6. After removing the dirty diaper, leave the newborn as it is for at least 10 minutes, so that his body dries up completely.
  7. When babies get rashes from diapers, applying coconut oil on that area provides great relief. Along with this, redness and irritation are also removed because coconut oil prevents fungus or microbial infection on your child’s body.
  8. Mix a little water in tea tree oil and apply it on the skin of the child’s rash. This gives a lot of comfort to the child.
  9. You can also use aloe vera gel to get rid of the irritation caused by rashes.

Travel to be a big part of my son’s life, says Sania Mirza

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Azhar Khan
Booking.com, the world’s leading digital travel brand, recently announced Grand Slam Champion Sania Mirza as its India Explorer, as a part of the Booking Explorers campaign that celebrates the spirit of travel through the lens of renowned adventures, leaders, and trailblazers across the Asia Pacific. Expressing her delight in partnering with Booking.com for the campaign, Sania Mirza took to Instagram to take her fans through her travel journey, right from the age of 8 when she first traveled to a different city for a tennis tournament, to now when her son keeps her company as she travels the world representing India.
Keeping the spirit of travel alive, Sania expressed her love for travel, how it has shaped her as a person and how the pandemic made her realize that she is guilty of taking travel for granted. “There are many things that are different because of the pandemic and I really hope it comes back to ‘I want to fly somewhere. If I have a visa I can go,’” says Sania, sharing her thoughts on the impact the pandemic has had on travel. Hailing from Hyderabad, Sania is well-traveled, both domestically and internationally. Talking about how she has explored India, she added, “I’ve been to all the bigger cities but it would be really nice to discover the interiors of India a little bit more because the culture is so different,” and when travel comes back in full swing, she would like to tick off Bora Bora in French Polynesia from her bucket list. Commenting on the campaign and her association with Booking.com, Sania Mirza said, “I am thrilled to come on board as an explorer for Booking.com’s Explorers campaign, through which I got to reminisce my travel memories. Travel has shaped me into the person that I am and I would love for travel to be a big part of my son’s life as well; so he understands all the cultures of India and the wider world. When I stop playing tennis, I would like to take the time to travel as a tourist and visit the same places that I’ve been to for tournaments. It would be great to savor and enjoy it differently.” Ritu Mehrotra, Regional Manager, South Asia at Booking.com said, “Sania’s travel story is very inspirational and it’s heartening to witness the transformational role travel has played, right from the formative years of her life to today, as she continues to make India proud. The time spent at home over the past one and a half years has made us realize our love for travel has never waned. With travel gradually resuming, we hope that Sania’s story will encourage travelers to broaden their horizons on how we can still experience our world responsibly when it’s safe to do so.”

Anjali Phougat : Ganpati darshan with wearing masks

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Azhar Khan
Anjali Phougat says the memorable part of Ganpati celebration this year is going for “Ganpati darshan wearing masks while following social distancing” Ganpati celebrations are one, but given the raging pandemic, the scenario is very different. Agreeing, fashion designer and humanitarian Anjali Phougat shares that many temples have strict guidelines this year, which says that those coming for Ganesha darshan should wear masks and maintain distance. Appreciating the effort, Anjali feels such initiatives are the need of the hour. “Although Ganesha has many attributes, he is readily identified by his elephant head. He is widely revered, more specifically, as the deity who is believed to be the bringer of good luck and remover of obstacles, the patron of arts and sciences, and the lord of wisdom. Ganesh Chaturthi, also called Vinayaka Chaturthi, is a 10-day festival marking the birth of the elephant-headed deity, Ganesha, who is the god of prosperity and wisdom. I was invited to this festival by my dear friend Geetanjali Chenchalani when I was living in Arkansas (US). She is from Rajasthan and had invited me to her house for Ganpati Darshan. I remember her asking me to whisper my wish to Ganpati’s ear and it will get fulfilled. And, in reality, my wish did come true. So, after 2008, I celebrated Ganpati every year,” she says. We don’t bring Ganpati home or do visarjan in my family in India so by introducing I meant she was the first person to invite in USA for ganpati celebration and explained her beliefs and significance to me) Talking about celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi in Ohio, US, where she presently resides, Anjali adds that the most amazing thing is that while they are living far from their country, they “celebrate Indian culture with full conviction and devotion”. Glad more people are creating eco-friendly ganpati Ji these days and do the visarjan in water without harming nature. “Our friends in Ohio invite us every year for Ganpati and we go to temples and celebrate with them. It feels no less than a proper family celebration,” she continues, “Lord Ganesha is called Vighnaharta. ‘Vighna’ basically refers to the problems humans face in life, and ‘Harta’ refers to someone who takes away or solves these problems. So basically Lord Ganesha bestows his mercy upon us and takes away all the miseries, problems, and sadness from us.” On the ending note, Anjali mentions that the most memorable part of the Ganpati celebration this year would be going for “Ganpati darshan wearing a mask” while, of course, “following social distancing guidelines”.

Coffee Face Pack: Benefits And Tips For DIY Remedies by Dr. Blossom Kochhar

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HEMLATA GAUTAM
Coffee Face Pack Benefits And Tips For DIY Remedies by Dr. Blossom Kochhar
Photo : Dr. Blossom Kochhar

A lot of us love having coffee in the morning or throughout the day to feel fresh and active. Thanks to the antioxidants and beneficial nutrients it is good for not only our health but also for our skin. It is multipurpose ingredients so let us look at some of the benefits of coffee that can help your skin:

Deep cleansing – since coffee has antioxidants which makes for an excellent scrub that removes all the dead cells from your skin and makes it smooth and glowing. Take a quarter cup of coffee and mix it with a quarter cup of brown sugar and enough lemon juice to make a semi dry paste. Scrub it all over your face, neck and even body. Let it sit for a few minutes after scrubbing and then wash it with lukewarm water. After your first scrub only you will see that the texture of your skin has improved and feels so smooth.

Anti-ageing agent – if sipping coffee lightens your mood then knowing the next benefit of coffee will further brighten your spirits. Coffee masks are excellent for skin tightening, the anti –ageing properties in it helps in making skin firm and makes your skin look younger too. Make a pack using 1 tablespoon of coffee powder, 1 tablespoon of honey and yoghurt. Apply this pack on a cleansed face and leave it on for 20 minutes. Gently massage it on your face for 3-5 minutes and rinse it off with water. Use this pack twice or thrice a week for quick results.

Get rid of puffy eyes – Caffeine stimulates blood flow and widens, or dilates, the blood vessels. This increases blood flow, which can help the skin to naturally tighten. The result may be a reduction in the build-up of fluid under the eyes. Mix grounded coffee with warm water, dip cotton balls in it and apply it on the puffy area.

Cellulite reduction – do you know all slimming products that you use have caffeine in them. Active ingredients in coffee help in fighting with stubborn cellulite and exfoliate areas of cellulite. Use fresh wet coffee grounds and rub it on the affected areas, this will stimulate blood flow and reduce cellulite. Another body scrub that you can try is

Treat your acne – In case you have stubborn acne and pimples then using coffee regularly can be really helpful. The natural exfoliator present in coffee combined with its anti- bacterial properties fight these skin bacteria. Use coffee grounds and rub them slowly on your face, make sure you don’t stress acne areas. This will remove dead skin and reduce acne. A pack which you can try at home is by mixing 3 teaspoons of coffee with 1 tablespoon of gram flour, 3 teaspoons of honey, and 2 teaspoons of aloe vera gel and 2-3 drops of lavender essential oil. Keep the pack on for 15 minutes or until it dries and then rinse it off with normal water.

Protect your skin from UV Rays – we all know how harmful UV rays can be for our skin, it leads to tan, pigmentation and dull skin. Polythenols present in coffee protect against uv rays and reduce the sign of ageing caused due to exposure to sun. Mix 1 tablespoon of coffee with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, make sure there are no lumps. Keep it on for 15 minutes and then rinse it. Follow this twice a week.

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