11092026-LSTC-01.qxd 9/11/2026 12:54 AM Page 1 c m y b BILLY JOEL’S BRAIN SURGERY Singer Billy Joel revealed undergoing brain surgery to help relieve symptoms of normal pressure hydrocephalus, a disorderthat he was diagnosed with in 2025. TRIBUNE Life All set... Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor serves as a main judge on India's Best Dancer Season 5, bringing her iconic 90s star power and dance expertise to the panel. CHANDIGARH | FRIDAY | 11 SEPTEMBER 2026 CHIRAG PASWAN PHOTO CREDIT: INSTAGRAM Ministers, cricketers and movie stars all had the same idea this week—rewind the clock and let the Internet decide who did it best PARINEETI CHOPRA & RAGHAV CHADHA Ananya Verma E VERY few months, the internet wants to look backward. This time it landed on the 1980s, and somewhere between a prompt box and a punchline, a good chunk of the country’s political and film circuit decided to play along. The trend itself is deceptively simple. Feed a current photograph into an AI tool, most people are using ChatGPT or Gemini and ask for period clothing, a touch of film grain and big hair, and out comes a portrait that looks lifted straight from an old family album. It is not a filter so much as a full rebuild, and that is exactly what has made it so shareable. Piyush Goyal was among the first to bite, vibing his way into a retro portrait that had social media comparing him to a Hindi film hero. Kiren Rijiju followed soon after, posting himself leaning against a car in a blazer and sunglasses, captioned with a shrug about being “forced” into the nostalgia everyone else was chasing. Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha joined in too, posting a retro portrait alongside his wife Parineeti Chopra, both leaning into voluminous hair and bold, unmistakably vintage styling. Anurag Thakur threw his hat in as well, sharing AMREEN KAUR SEKHON & VIKRAMADITYA SINGH Netas turn back the clock to 80s a moody, cassette-and-armchair throwback of his own. Chirag Paswan’s post carried the caption “Vibing to the 80s trend...” over an image that looked convincingly like a dug-up old photograph—vintage Ambassador car, faded election poster and all. It was AI-generated. Himachal Pradesh minister Vikramaditya Singh got in on it too, posting an AI-styled portrait with his wife. But the more charming turn came from the people who refused to let a machine do the remembering. Renuka Chowdhury skipped the prompt entirely and pulled out an actual magazine cover from the decade. Shashi Tharoor joined the same camp, sharing a few real photographs of himself from the decade. Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan kept it simpler, just “80s called, I answered” under a photograph. Across the aisle in Himachal Pradesh, Leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur gave the trend its own twist, digging out a real photograph of himself from the decade in a sweater. c m y b ANURAG THAKUR PIYUSH GOYAL