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Remember the famous dialogue of UPKAR when Manoj Kumar tells Asha Parekh, “Mention not!” suggesting he was an educated Kisan. What has happened to the actor now that he cannot forgive an honest ‘dig’...Sorry!
Aug 4 2008
What will happen to our Obama whose enthusiasm for exercise first raised eyebrows last month, when he stopped three times in one day for workouts at Chicago gyms, prompting a reporter to wonder: “Sometimes it’s hard to tell if Barack Obama is...
Aug 4 2008
Not far behind the angrezi dances is our folk dance forms. So put on your dancing shoes and aaja nach le! Balle Balle !
Aug 3 2008
My friend living in the U.K. asked me for a “small favour”. This entailed a hassle putting to trouble a horde of men and machines. The job involved arranging to have his daughter’s car brought from Pune, where she worked, to Panipat, where she was...
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Aug 3 2008
These later Mughals were Emperors only in name, they were in fact pauperised, they had lost their empire to the Britishers, the Marathas, and their Governors, who had really became independent rulers (like the Nawabs of Awadh or Nizam of Hyderabad). In...
Jul 30 2008
Someone said on watching her on YouTube–A very attractive lady but I am a hearing person did not understand a word a word of it. This is a pity because she probably has a real message to tell the World about.
Jul 30 2008
The Greeks call it musa and believe that this fruit has descended from Heaven. It is the Africans who gave it its present name. In India, the banana is referred to as kela, plantain or the ‘fruit of the wise men’. It is the only fruit that is...
Jul 30 2008
According to data compiled by US business magazine Forbes, CEOs of the 500 largest companies in US saw their compensation dwindle by an average 15 per cent in 2007, but the 13 female CEOs saw their pay jump by an average 27 per cent.
Jul 29 2008
SHE has been in India for barely a month but she has already learnt how to greet the Indian way. She offers a confident namaste in case you hold out your hand. Huang Xiao Meo, also known as Juno, is on her first-ever trip abroad and all for a good...
Jul 29 2008
Animation is an assembly line technique that involves more than one artist contributing to the finishing of the animated character, like Astro Boy before it can be beamed into people’s homes on television. Often the function of Manga animation is to...