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  1. Aye Babu Moshai, Rajesh Khanna aaya hai re

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    / May 2, 2012 / 3 Comments
    The original superstar is back. And says “Fans kya hote hai, koyi mujhse poocho”. It is quite possible that you may have decided to switch channels without quite realising that the man making this claim is none other than the original superstar of Bollywood, Rajesh Khanna. Yes, Khanna, now much...

  2. Kaun (nahi) banega Rashtrapati

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    / April 27, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The season when a mention in the newspapers or TV channels sends Presidential hopefuls and their families into a frenzy and a rush to stitch new bandhgalas or order new sarees is upon us. Sadly, no surprise names yet. APJ Abdul Kalam reportedly is open to a second term in...

  3. Gunned out of CBI top job?

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    / April 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    CBI director Mohan Katre was to retire on October 31, 1987. The then Congress government had cleared the name of the number 2 in the CBI, Additional director Radhakrishnan Nair to take over as CBI director. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had okayed the appointment and the Press Information Bureau issued...

  5. Tum ko Hindi aata kya?

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    / February 21, 2012 / 1 Comment
    My daughter, who is a senior at New York University, recently signed up for a Hindi class. When asked what motivated her to learn the Indian language, she replied, “I want to be able to watch Hindi movies without sub-titles”. The trouble began when she assumed that I was a...

  6. Big B tweets about Bigger Ganesha

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    / September 4, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Amitabh Bachchan tweeted these pictures of the Lalbaug ka Raja, one of the most popular Ganesh mandals in Mumbai.

  7. He is back but is he `angry’?

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    / July 3, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By L Ravichander   Why would the media go ga ga over this Amitabh Bachchan starrer? Well orchestrated media promotion? The awe that the star commands? The fact that Bachchan is doing what in an underplayed version an Om Prakash or an Ashok Kumar would have done? Also how did...

  8. Paa set to make Big B Grandpa

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    / June 21, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By T S Sudhir My twitter timeline is buzzing. I had given up on it, bored with analysing the tu tu main main of civil society and Sibal society. When Sr Bachchan announced that the wait was over at Prateeksha. Come the winter of 2011, one more Bachchan will tell...

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