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PEOPLE@LEISURE
PEOPLEAAMIR WANI
photographer, filmmaker and poetBY SNEHA BHURAAward-winning photographer and
Instagram sensation Aamir Wani
draws inspiration from the Kash-
miri-American poet Agha Sha-
hid Ali. At the Mountain Echoes
Festival in Bhutan next month, he
will be talking about his favourite
muse, Kashmir.Kashmir is both beautiful and com-
plex. How do you try to capture it
in your frame?
For me, the focus is not the politics
or the conflict, but rather the every-
day... the culture, the heritage, the
literature. I am not denying that
our every day is unaffected by the
conflict, but I do not need to show
that through the frame of a person
throwing a stone. Sometimes an
ordinary person who has lived
through conflict has the story in his
eyes, or in a scar.HAPPINESS
MANIFESTO
Mandira Bedi is
coming out with
a book, Happy for
No Reason, to be
published next year
by Penguin Random
House. It will be a
“memoir written
in the style of a
modern-day fitness
lifestyle manual”. She
writes about keeping
fit, parenting and
maintaining work-
life balance. “With
utmost gratitude, I
look at my life having
taken the most bless-
ed and divine turns
these last 25 years in
entertainment,” she
said. “Happy for No
Reason is an attitude
and an intent I put
out, to wake up with
every day of my life.”LET THERE BE LIGHT
Ever since she was diagnosed with cancer last year,
Sonali Bendre has been fighting the battle with courage
and grace. But she has her off-days. So the last time she
woke up feeling low and exhausted, she decided to go
on the offensive with a motivating Instagram video. “I
decided I need a mindset change,” she says in the video.
“Use the colour. Switch on the sunshine quite literally.
Wear the sunshine. Be proactive. Get into the gym, and
move it. Come on Sonali, here I am....” Attagirl!PTI72 THE WEEK • AUGUST 4, 2019