Service redefined as a platinum credit card holder. This includes concierge and concert tickets, “green lane” at banks and credit limits like Rs 6 lakh. Life in plastic, it’s fantastic

Time on your hands and it had better be a Patek Phillipe or a Rolex. Patek apparently is huge with Russians after President Putin bought one. Rolex has also opened a show room at New Delhi’s Shangri-La Hotel

Udaipur as a wedding destination because, you know, Liz Hurley and Arun Nayar are rumoured to be heading there in February. Devigarh palace, where the guests include David Beckham, Hugh Grant and Sir Elton John

Vertu’s new $90,000 handset that will feature tiny diamonds dotted all over, and a keypad that carries eight carats worth diamonds. The phone’s body will come from the finest platinum, underpinned with ruby bearings and equipped with a similar ceramic composition originally intended for the space shuttle. But no camera!

Wine throwing, after two socialites did it to each other at a party, it’s the hippest way of making a splash at a do

Xtra mile Mumbai’s high society pet owners are going it for their dogs who now feast on gourmet cuisine adapted to their individual tastes and home delivered by a private company that boasts 500 clients

Yadav as in Lalu Prasad Yadav who stumbled into high society by first addressing IIM-A students and then being invited by Harvard and Wharton Universities to lecture on the Railway turnaround

Zipper malfunction A whole new term introduced in the fashion syllabus after hooks snapped and zips came undone at the Lakme Fashion Week in March this year, leading to a strict vigil on the runway thereafter, sometimes by plainclothes policemen