Foot loose

Buddy call
Essar has announced a new plan 8211; the Vodafone Friends Circle, for its customers in India. Vodafone subscribers can make calls to their friends at 20 paise/min. Users can add five numbers to their 8216;Friends Circle8217; and avail the subsidized rates for these numbers. The five numbers can be postpaid and prepaid local numbers. Harit Nagpal, Director Marketing and New Business, Vodafone Essar, informed , 8220;We have seen that the bulk of a customer8217;s calls are made to a handful of numbers. The Vodafone Friends Circle offer helps customers economize on their monthly mobile phone bills.8221; The Vodafone Friends Circle scheme charges a monthly rental of Rs 15 per number and is available to both prepaid and postpaid subscribers. This plan is applicable only for making calls and standard charges will be applicable for roaming and SMS.

Action play
EROS International has joined hands with FXLabs Studios to launch India8217;s first 3D PC action game based on Aamir Khan8217;s latest flick 8216;Ghajini8217;. Ghajini is a third-person action game, which features recreated movie locations and scenes in 3D to provide gamers with actual movie sets so the experience as authentic as the film. The players get a first-hand experience of the main protagonist and character Sanjay played by Khan and come across challenges and trails faced by him in the film. Khan has lent his voice and also enacted certain moves to bring in authenticity for the action sequences. Eros Pictures executive director Biren Ghose, says, 8220;Eros International and FXLabs will hopefully be the first in creating a new line of games that leverage big movie titles and stories. Eros is committed to providing innovative solutions to its consumers and offering the interactive Ghajini PC game is another way of delivering on that promise.8221;

8216;Hun8217; apna Punjab
THERE8217;S more to Punjab than its mustard fields, robust Bhangra and lip-smacking sarson da saag believes Sushil Dosanjh who brings to the region, the eleventh edition of the international Punjabi quarterly magazine 8216;Hun8217;. Giving a platform to writers of the state who feel proud of its history and culture, the magazine is divided into many interesting sections. 8220;We have deliberately kept space for a segment that brings to light the reasons why various wars were fought on the land of the Punjab. This is an endeavour to enlighten the global Punjabi Village,8221; explained Dosanjh who is also the editor of the magazine. 8220;Through this magazine we wanted to inform people not only about the art, culture and traditions of Punjab but also the facts and the pro-people movements of the past,8221; summed up the editor.

Kabir kahe
The Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademy is organising 8216;Suno Bhai Sadho8217;, based on Kabir bani, at The State Library- Sector 34, Chandigarh on January 2 at 6.30 pm. Renowned singer of Malvi folk style, Prahlad Singh Tipananya, will present the programme.