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...housemate on the reality-TV show Big Brother. Goody endeared and appalled with her ignorance--she wondered who "Heinzstein" might be and thought Saddam Hussein was a boxer. Her return to the Big Brother house in 2007 nearly finished her career after she clashed with Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty amid accusations of racism...
...plan to go West and work outside Bollywood? Jay Bee, TORONTO...
...world's highest high school dropout rate. Despite its robust economic growth, India is wracked by seemingly irreversible poverty. Capitalism is still, for all intents and purposes, a nasty word, corruption is ubiquitous and the relatively young democracy is saddled with inexperienced leaders. (See pictures of Saavn: Bollywood gets digital...
...nothing worked. "Because of the attitude of the government, that they are not ready to spare security forces for the cricket tournament ... We are forced to take the decision to move the event out of India," BCCI president Shashank Manohar told the media in Mumbai on Sunday. Bollywood superstar actor Shah Rukh Khan, who owns Team Kolkata and was part of the IPL governing council meeting where the decision was taken, was more magnanimous: "We need to respect the general elections, they are much bigger than our issue. This is an attempt to resolve our problems [rather] than create more...
...played at a time," he points out, "It's not as if every city was going to be besieged and security agencies stretched." Rajaraman says given cricket's popularity in India, the move will backfire for the Congress. "There was no other entertainment slated for that period, no Bollywood films were due for release, all TV serials were heading for a close just before IPL. People will be angry," he says. In a country where the price of onions has determined election results, messing with cricket might prove costly at the ballot...