Akshay Kumar arrested for obscenity

Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 16:30 | Category : Bollywood & the Indian film industry, Crumbs
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This is a case I’ve been following for a while and it just gets weirder and weirder.
Akshay Kumar, who is one of Bollywood’s biggest stars at the Indian box office, was invited to walk the catwalk during the Lakhme India Fashion Week. While on the catwalk he approached his wife, Twinkle Khanna (another Bollywood actress [...]

Bet dieting

Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 16:02 | Category : Crumbs, Curiosities
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Since I’m regaining my obsession with losing weight (hopefully I’ll explain why in my monthly summary post ;)), I thought it appropriate to post this. I imagine this kind of dieting would work well for many people. I mean if I had to give some of my money to a charity that campaigned for something [...]

The 2009 Cannes festival

Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 15:56 | Category : Crumbs, Film
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I can’t say I’ve been following the Cannes festival very avidly, but I guess the winners are worth a mention on this blog considering how much film related content I put up here… I find it interesting that the best director honour went (apparently rather controversially) to a Filipino director (I saw one of his [...]

Belated post on India’s elections and a bit about India’s growing social divides

I’d intended to write about this ages ago, but somehow didn’t *sigh* Anyway, Indian elections came and went and the Congress party won once again with even more votes than last time (that means the government is socialist yet again).
A lot of interesting news reports came up during this time. On the one hand, there [...]

Myanmar and its issues

Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 14:18 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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Myanmar (Burma) is one of the worst totalitarian regimes in the world. Getting reasonable media coverage from the country is very difficult and so, even though I don’t think this is the best of news reports, I thought I’d link to it. Just seeing footage from Burma is special in itself. I wonder how Al [...]

Russell Means - the frontman of the fight for Native American rights and culture

Russell Means is an actor, who has extensively campaigned for Native American rights throughout his career. The interview is fascinating :)