Kshitij to host a festive exhibition of handcrafted products At the Global Desi & AND store

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The much awaited festivities have begun! Kshitij - a Mumbai-based NGO, that assists adults with intellectual disabilities, is hosting a 2 day exhibition, displaying hand-crafted items like diyas, torans, rangolis, aarti thalis, chocolate hampers, block printed bags,  etc for the festive season. All the products are made, by these differently- abled talented individuals, whom Kshitij is helping, cope with disorders like Down’s Syndrome, Autism etc. And Designs India Ltd- fashion house, spearheaded by Anita Dongre with brands like AND, Global Desi and Anita Dongre, supports this cause and encourages the creative skills of these young individuals.

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So, help share the warmth and spirit of the festive season, and shop, from this beautiful assortment of hand-crafted items which make for great gifts for the upcoming celebrations!

Date: 27^th and 28^th September 2014

Time:

Saturday- 12 noon – 8pm

Sunday- 2pm- 8pm

Venue: Courtyard at the Global Desi & AND store
Linking Road,
Khar(W), Mumbai - 400 052.
Close to Khar Telephone Exchange

Tel. 022 – 65142281/65260771

About Kshitij

Founded in 1998, Kshitij is a Mumbai-based NGO that employs adults with intellectual disabilities to create hand-crafted items and chocolates. They employ individuals with different types of intellectual disabilities caused by conditions such as Downs Syndrome, Autism and Brain Damage. In the sheltered and nurturing environment of their workshops, these individuals are supervised by professional instructors as well as their own family members, engaging in various recreational activities with their peers and are provided with a salary for their work. 

Fairies and Ganeshas mingle with tinsel stars

The inaugural ceremony of Dr. Seema Chaudhary and Nitin Chaudhary’s art show ‘When Fairies Meet Ganesha’ at Hirji Gallery of Jehangir Art Gallery in Kala Ghoda was an eventful star-studded one. Randeep Hooda who lit the inaugural lamp showed keen interest and viewed every painting with attention. Sangram Singh arrived with his wrestling team while actor Tia Bajpai liked the depth in the works especially the women in Dr.Seema Chaudhary's frames. Richa Sony was amazed that a scientist and an engineer could take their hobby to such amazing levels. Singer-composers Raju Singh and Mudasir Ali regaled one and all with their mesmerizing voices. Designer Salim Asgarally who is incidentally the man behind Randeep Hooda's costumes in Main Aur Charles talked about the intricacies observed by the artist even at costume level. "Such detaiing can only be of a perfectionist with amazing creativity," he avered. Actors Sanjay Gagnani, Prashantt Guptha, Shifanjali Rao and Rinke Ali Khan, veteran artists Milon Mukherjee and Prakash Bal Joshi, Anannya Banerjee, Rutuja Padwal, veteran director Ashwini Chaudhary and young director Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan were also seen at the art do. 

This week, CID investigates a case of mystery, disappearances and murder!

This week, CID presents an interesting case of murder. The episode will see three girls, Shreya, Poorvi and Tarika attend a charity function for orphans and rehabilitated women. There they meet a social worker, Sakshi Kumar (Rashmi Desai) who is known for her work for children and women. Saakshi who is accompanied by her PA, gets a fit and she becomes violent.  The PA informs the three girls that fits are normal with her and she will be fine. Saakshi is taken away but the three girls are doubtful. Shreya feels that Saakshi started behaving like this only after the PA administered a medicine to her. However, it’s a personal matter and they cannot do anything at that moment. Shreya keeps the wrapper strip of the medicine that was given to Saakshi.  Sakshi gets more fits and later goes missing.

Meanwhile, ACP, Abhijit and Daya are on their way to the bureau and a woman, named Keerti, in distress waves out to them for help. She informs the cops that some goons are trying to kill her. However, when the CID team investigates they find out that there is more than what meets the eye. On the other hand a search for Sakshi is also started

How are these two cases linked? Will the cops succeed in saving Sakshi? Also who is trying to kill Keerti and what is their motive? To find out, catch CID, Friday-Saturday, September 26-27^th at 10 pm only on Sony Entertainment Television

Catch SRK’s fab ab video revealing his 8 pack body building regime

After the groovy tunes and tantalizing trailers, here is a video on the most talked about topic from the movie Happy New Year. Yes, its SRK’s 8 pack abs. Here is a special video revealing how the King Khan sculpted an enviable and stunning body for Farah Khan’s Happy New Year which is slated to release this Diwali. 

In the video, is a shirtless SRK pumping away and sweating it out while Farah Khan encourages her good friend to push the bar. 

Having followed a strict diet and rigorous body building regime, SRK has managed to do what most others couldn't think of, and it surely doesn’t get any more raw and real than this.

As a special treat, the video also makes a fun and humourous dig at the famous challenge thrown at SRK by Hrithik Roshan. 

Youtube Link: http://bit.ly/1uj8u6s

Khichdi” Fame Actor Mr. Anang Desai have launch a campaign to create awareness about noise pollution

Due to increase in noise pollution in our day to day lives which causes temporary disruption in the natural balance of activities in human being.  Hearing Plus the India's largest chain of hearing clinics, providing affordable solutions for Hearing Loss is coming up with a new campaign in Mumbai to help individuals with hearing loss, tinnitus and balance disorder. The aim is to provide a sense of relief to the people who get affected from the noise pollution from the regular activities. For providing further service to mankind Hearing Plus- 360 degree hearing solutions have stepped into the Mumbai city on June2014. After opening their first clinic on 1^st June 2014, Now they have opened their 2 new clinics at S. K. Bole road- Dadar, Kemps Corner- Grant Road and 3 new clinics at Gokhale road – Thane, Platinum Techno Park – Vashi, and M. G. Road – Ghatkopar. The opening ceremony was graced by the presence of “Khichdi” Fame Actor Mr. Anang Desai. On this occasion the actor congratulated the Hearing Plus team and said “It is my pleasure to inaugurate Hearing Plus new clinics in Mumbai as now Mumbai will hear even better. They have a team of extremely professional and qualified doctors who takes every case as a personalized one”.

With this 5 newly branded clinics they have achieved a milestone of 22 clinics across the country.

Hearing Plus has opened their 5 new clinics across the city.Hearing Plus had started its journey from 15^th August, 2006. Since then till today, within a span of 8 years it has become the no 1 clinic in eastern India in the field of Hearing Aid & Speech Therapy.

Adding onto that Mr AvishekDutta, Director of Hearing Plus said that one in every ten* people suffer from some degree of hearing loss. In India the hearing aid penetration rate is only 1%.** Which mean 1 out of every 100 individuals with hearing loss receive Hearing Aid this occurs due to dearth of professional & poor clinical expertise & services. However in U.S.A the hearing aid penetration rate is 53%. Thus the motto of Hearing Plus is to serve not only the class is to serve the mass and that is why we have opened these clinics so that no individual with hearing impairment is devoid of treatment in this city.

Anyone can get the information by calling on a TOLL FREE No.: 18002002440

Hearing Plus is a team of highly qualified audiologist & speech language pathologist who are trained to help individuals with hearing loss, tinnitus and balance disorder. The vision of Hearing Plus is to serve those 3% of thetotal population, who are supposed to have speech & hearing impairment. The core team consists of Hearing Plus highly trained audiologist and speech language pathologist (all have obtained a Bachelors degree and/ or a Master degree in the field of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology) to  provide high quality service by

virtue of their experience & expertise. In order to support this technical team they have 250+ skilled and dedicated staff who are working incessantly in the background for quality assurance.