The movie, which despite its slick image and incredibly beautiful stars is not what it claims to be. It's not a great action movie. Not a great love story. Not even a noteworthy Indian contribution to global cinema.
It is collective positive action that will enable the warring cousins to carry forward the Thackeray mantle in 2010 and beyond. Fighting over a limited votebank could see their downfall just like what befell Shivaji Maharaj's successors till the Peshwas came on the scene decades later.
Tamil writer S Balasubramanian and Marathi playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar are also among the 22 litterateurs selected.
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'Unfortunately, the most likely outcome is that they will press India to give in to the ISI, or, equally disastrously, ask for Indian troops to join them in Afghanistan.'
'We must with or without the cooperation of Pakistan get rid of the terror training camps, and let Pakistan know that any action against terror outfits inside their territory is no violation of their sovereignty. Instead, it will help them restore their authority and save India from murder and mayhem.'
Can such marriages survive the age disparity? Apparently they can.
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The military-bureaucratic dominance is a menacing reality in Pakistan, as a result of which the nation is unable to build a vibrant democracy.
Security expert B Raman takes a look at the situation in Lanka, where the LTTE is on its knees.
'Benazir Bhutto was not a politician a newly created country like Pakistan needed. But, among the choices that are available, she was the best.'
What Benazir Bhutto told the Council for Foreign Relations in New York before her return to Pakistan.
Most remember him for old campaigns like Gloria Vanderbilt and Tommy Hilfiger.
What several eminent intellectuals said at the launch of Jaswant controversial book, Jinnah India, Partition, Independence.
Prayaag Akbar tells the story of 1,000 years of caste-based repression, and of a people's quest for dignity under a democracy that has failed them.
'The government seems inclined to 'settle' the Kashmir issue in blatant violation of the unanimous resolution by both Houses of the Indian Parliament in 1995. The country must be vigilant about this.'
Now that the prime minister has put into his mouth what should have been firmly planted on the ground, if the Pakistanis insist on talking to us about self-determination for Kashmir, lets then also talk self-determination for Baluchistan.
A tour of India's most famous Krishna temples
Pakistan journalist Hamid Mir on issues like Musharraf's compulsions in resorting to this extreme measure, conducting elections and restoring democracy in Pakistan, whether its nuclear weapons are in danger of falling into extremists' hands and what the ramifications for India would be.
'One feels disturbed by the spins by the government and analysts projecting the first meeting of the anti-terror mechanism in a positive light.'
Tina Sugandh becomes the first Indian American to sign major record deal.
We are liberals and democratic. We have against us the feudalists and the mullahs of Pakistan who have issued fatwas against us.
Three Indians are already assured of gold medals in their age-groups in the Asian Youth chess championships.
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