Sonam Kapoor is Maxim India’s hottest girl this year

Mumbai: Bollywood’s delicate darling Sonam Kapoor, who’s best known for her impeccable fashion sense, has now won herself the much sought-after ‘hot’ tag. Believe it or not, but Sonam has scored over bombshells like Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone and Bipasha Basu to become Maxim India’s hottest girl for this year.
Sonam, who looked simply gorgeous in her latest outing ‘Aisha’, is extremely ecstatic about topping the list.

“It’s really important to me. I like the words ‘hot’ and ‘sexy.’ It’s fun and at the same time, speaks about your sensuality, passion and depth,” Sonam told a news daily.

‘Maxim Hot 100’ list includes Amrita Rao, Anushka Sharma, Jacqueline Fernandez, and ‘Khatta Meetha’ actress Trisha Krishnan at 32nd, 24th, 35th and 93rd positions respectively.
The list also features some of the India’s leading models like Lisa Haydon, Esha Gupta and Maybelline face Diana Penty.

Talking to a news daily, Vivek Pareek, Editor, Maxim magazine, said, “It (list) has girls who have inspired men with their hotness and stood the test of swinging appreciation and mindsets.”

Crazy, sexy, cool

Call it a week of mixed reviews. Even as Toronto endured jabs from a Niagara Parks Commission advertising campaign — portraying the city as rife with vandalism, noise and stress — it was hailed as “the new capital of cool” by a prominent U.S. website last week.

An article in The Huffington Post praised Canada's largest city for its multiculturalism, splendid outdoor festivals, gourmet food, and thriving arts and music scenes. “Toronto is the hot new destination for all things crazy, sexy, cool,” it concluded.

Just as we Torontonians may have reacted a tad too defensively to the Niagara ad campaign, we should also take care not to cheer too loudly for kudos from an American source. Some perspective is in order. Ad campaigns and brief travel articles can't truly capture the complex character of this city and what it has to offer.

Also bear in mind that The Huffington Post has been criticized for the trivial nature of some of its coverage. For example, alongside the story about Toronto, the website's travel section also included an article on wearing “flying pasties” to “protect your dignity in airport scanners,” and a listing of the world's top 14 nude beaches.

Through some inexcusable oversight, Toronto's Hanlan's Point wasn't among them.