Master Creations will be held at Dilli Haat till the 18th of December. It’s an exclusive festival where National Awardees, State Awardees and Merit Certificate holders from all parts of the country will showcase and sell their unique products.

Sufi music lovers in the capital are in for a treat as "Ruhaniyat: The Sufi and Mystic Music Festival" begins this Sunday, the 10th of December at the Garden Of Five Senses near Sainik Farms.  Last year it was held across three cities and this time it will be the biggest All-India Sufi and Mystic Music Festival ever being held across the six cities of Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune from November 2006 to February 2007.

This festive season be a part of The Habitat carnival  - a fun-filled extravaganza which includes Talks, Theatre, Walks, Documentary Films, Health Talk, Film Club Screening, Dramatized Reading, Book Launch, Discussion, Music, Visual Arts Gallery, Open Palm Court Gallery, Experimental Art gallery displaying their art, and also a Workshop on how to make Christmas craft.

Here’s some good news for all the book lovers out there – the Grand Book Fair is on till the 25th December at the YWCA lawns near Connaught Place. The Fair claims to stock the largest collection of books under one roof found anywhere, rangin from fiction to professional to academic to self-help.

It’s time once again for Timeless Jewels – India’s largest jewelry, watches and lifestyle exhibition being held this year at Delhi’s Taj Palace Hotel from December 15th to the 18th.

The jewellery will be a mix of light jewellery for everyday wear and heavy jewellery, mostly chokers, necklaces and danglers, for special occasions. Items studded with precious stones like diamonds, emeralds and sapphire will also be on display at the exhibition.

In case you happen to be one of the many people planning to invest in the real estate sector, you cannot afford to miss Jaaydaad Expo 2006- the largest and most representative property and real estate exhibition which provides a platform to developers and builders to showcase and sell their projects to the millions of customers worldwide. It’s also a platform for bankers and financial institutions to reach out their customers.

A month-long exhibition by artists from Indonesia and Vietnam opened at C-11 Main Market of Vasant Vihar on Friday, December 15th. Titled "Southeast Asian Art", the exhibition showcases both figurative and abstract works. The mediums used are lacquer on wood and mixed media on canvas.

The Royal Netherlands Embassy is giving art lovers in Delhi a truly special gift with its plans to organize an exhibition of some of the choicest works of the world renowned Dutch artist – Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn. This exhibit is being held to commemorate Rembrandts 400th birth anniversary and will feature reproductions of his painting, drawings and etchings by the master himself.

Apart from actually getting to see Rembrandt reproductions at the exhibition, there will also be lectures by well-known expert on the painter – Dr. Taco Dibbits, curator of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Dr. Dibbits will deliver three lectures on Rembrandt which will not just cover his painting techniques, but also shed light on the oriental influence in the Dutch masters’ paintings. Dr. Dibbits is a recognised expert in his field and was confident that his lectures and the exhibition would be well-received and successful since there were quite a considerable number of art lovers in India as well, most of whom happened to be admirers of Rembrandt’s work.

And, in what may come as a surprise to even the most ardent of art lovers, there actually even exists a connection between Rembrandt and the Mughal king Shah Jahan, the man known for his obsession with symmetry. This is reflected in Rembrandt’s drawings of Indian miniatures of the Mughal emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan, which he must have seen and collected at some time. In fact he collected quiet a few of these miniatures from across the world, as was discovered in an inventory of his possessions in 1656 which contained an album of curious miniatures as well as various wood and copper prints of all sorts of costumes.

The Netherlands Ambassador was confident that the reproductions of Rembrandt's work would definitely strike a chord with the Indian audience since Rembrandt was not only of interest to art historians, but was also a source of inspiration for modern day painters.

The exhibition will open in Delhi on December 16 at the National Museum and will subsequently move on to Vadodara.

As the winter sets into the capital, it is the perfect time to get out those designer shawls. In case you are looking for one, do make it a point to visit the Shawl Show 2006 at Pragati Maidan.

The Swad Food Festival, being held on December 16th and 17th at the Maharashtra Sadan, promises to literally provide Delhiites with a taste of Maharashtra and its cuisine with preparations from all across Maharashtra.

It promises to be an eclectic mix of the east and the west as famous composer, conductor and pianist Gill Shohat, also known as the Mozart of Israel, takes centrestage in a fusion concert accompanied by Akram Khan on the tabla.

Three guys – a lunatic, a poet and an artist – fall in love with the same girl. What follows is a series of hilarious dialogues and funny situations as each of them tries to outdo the others and woo the girl.