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 Much
ADo
about nothing!
THE
intense off-the-field controversy, created by television
advertisements, featuring Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh for
competing liquor brands, albeit through surrogate ads, has kicked up a
row about the ethicality of it all. Whether
cricketers should sponsor liquor ads, even if it’s through surrogate
brands, has become a matter of debate. The latest ad features Dhoni
and a Harbhajan lookalike, and takes a dig at the off-spinner, though
it’s a harmless spoof for sodas of two famous liquor brands of the
same names that they endorse.
Twig
tea, anyone?
A third of herbal and green
teas have been found to have extra unlisted ingredients, writes Alister
Doyle
Herbal
teas often contain unlisted extra ingredients such as weeds, ferns or
bits of tree, according to a study by New York high school students
that could help tighten labelling rules.
Justice
delayed… and denied
The aging parents of the
first martyr of the Kargil war, Captain Saurabh Kalia, continue to
live at Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, in the hope that the perpetrators
of the atrocities committed on their son and his five comrades will be
brought to book, writes Navreet Milton
Maa,
tum dekhna, ek din aisa kaam karunga, saari duniya mein mera naam hoga
(Mother, you will see one day I will perform such an act that the
entire world would acknowledge it)." "These were the last
words my son said to me over the phone," recollects the
misty-eyed Vijaya, mother of the first martyr of the Kargil war,
Captain Saurabh Kalia.
Chugging down the memory track
The introduction of bullet train services from Beijing
to Shanghai reminds Maj-Gen G. G. Dwivedi (retd) of his maiden train journey in China, more than a decade back
THE
engineering marvel of Qinghai-Lhasa railway line stands overshadowed
with the introduction of bullet train services from Beijing to
Shanghai. The train was started to mark the 90th anniversary of the
Chinese Communist Party. It train covers a distance of 1,465 km in
just five hours with a to and fro service almost every 15 minutes.
Cruising
on notes of change
The varying themes of Hindi
films demand a new kind of music to attract young crowds
WITH
bold numbers like "The mutton song", "Karma
is a bitch" and now "Bhaag D K Bose",
Bollywood music has turned a new leaf. The popularity of the numbers,
replete with punchy, unconventional and slang-laden lyrics laced with
pacy tunes, has elbowed out sugary romantic numbers from youngsters’
playlists.
Super
gamble for superstars
With Shah Rukh Khan’s RA.One
and Hrithik Roshan’s Krrish 2 in the offing, Bollywood is on
the verge of reinventing the superhero for domestic audiences, writes Saibal
Chatterjee
IF
you’ve seen the Hindi version of the big-budget Hollywood sci-fi
epic, Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon, released recently, you
would have found the ‘voice’ of the heroic Optimus Prime, leader
of the Autobats, rather familiar. It belongs to Bollywood star Akshay
Kumar. He lent his voice to the mighty fictional character without
charging director Michael Bay a single penny.
Honour for
Stanley Ka Dabba
Writer-filmmaker-child
activist Amole Gupte’s Stanley Ka Dabba won a special award
at the Giffoni Film Festival, one of the largest children’s film
fest in Europe. The award
"United Against Injustice: Depends on me" has been given by
ActionAid, an organisation whose vision is to have a world without
poverty.
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