Happy Deepawali to all Hindus from the future US President

A joyous Diwali from Obama Dear Friends, Thank you for the opportunity to share a few thoughts with you as we near the night of Diwali. In the coming days, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and their friends of all faiths will gather across America and around the world to celebrate the Festival of Lights. Americans, despite [...]

Bitter infighting over ‘diva’ Palin

BITTER INFIGHTING between aides to John McCain and Sarah Palin erupted into public view on Saturday in a sign of tension gripping the Republican camp with the election 10 days away .
A series of recent surveys have suggested Palin’s presence on the ticket is hurting McCain’s chances.
The inquests into what has gone wrong with McCain’s [...]

Fresh row over pay orders

Indian military pay fiasco continues
Read it here
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20081024/nation.htm#17

Kareena Kapoor opposite Hollywood actor Johnny Depp

Kareena Kapoor was offered a role by Bend it like Beckham director Gurinder Chadda for her next flick opposite handsome hunk Johnny Depp. The NRI director is also set to make a big-budget Hollywood flick, but Kareena denied the film as she had dates problem (I’m not too sure of that though) and moreover she [...]

REVIEW OF GOLMAAL RETURNS : NOT TO BE MISSED

Golmaal Returns, the much-awaited follow-up of the uproariously comic smash-hit Golmaal, arrives with renewed star power, chartbusting music and more laughter than before!
Gopal (Ajay Devgan), who lives with his wife Ekta (Kareena Kapoor), sister Esha (Amrita Arora) and a dumb brother-in-law Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor), gets stuck in a yacht after saving an attractive woman Meera [...]

HEROES: A MOVIE REVIEW

Sammy and Ali are two bosom pals. Everything they do, they do together and are highly dependent on each other. While Sammy is an eccentric, high-spirited and has an uncanny knack of finding humor in the weirdest of situations, Ali is quieter and more mature. When the two friends travel a thousand miles to deliver [...]

“WEDNESDAY”

“WEDNESDAY” tells the story of certain events that unfold between 2 and 6 pm on a particular Wednesday - events which do not exist in any record but which deeply effects the lives of those involved.
Prakash Rathod, Commissioner of Police, Mumbai (played by Mr Anupam Kher) gets a call demanding the release of four militants [...]

Quantam of Solace- review of the new James Bond flick

Quantam of Solace continues the high octane adventures of James Bond in Casino Royale. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr White who reveals the organisation which blackmailed Vesper is far more [...]

Why this bias against the Army?

Following is a news article from the Tribune in India which I cherish

Saturday, September 13, 2008, Chandigarh, India /The Tribune

Recently an inspired news-item appeared in the Press (obviously at the instance of the IAS bureaucracy) ridiculing the Service Chiefs’ claim not to deflate the parity of the Army officials vis-a-vis the civil servants. [...]

Princess Victoria meets Bollywood star Aamir Khan

Princess Victoria, the eldest daughter of Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, who is on a 10-day state visit to India for The Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week 2008 celebrations had dinner with ‘perfectionist’ Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao on October 21 at Hotel Trident in Mumbai. The Swedish ambassador was also present during the dinner [...]

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