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Amitabh for President?
Bollywood's biggest name may become India's Ronald Reagan, if Amar Singh has his way.
Amitabh Bachchan vs Shah Rukh Khan: The Bollywood Fight of the Century
The Jalsa corner
Main character
Amitabh Bachchan, (“The Big B”) 64, actor, TV presenter, poet, one-time Member of Parliament and potential candidate for presidency.
Supporting Cast:
Bollywood's business connections in politics
Two of the biggest names in India Inc take sides in Bollywood's Battle Royale.
When two of India’s richest men are feuding, just about anything that involves the two can be turned into yet another bone of contention. When the two men are brothers, and their disagreement is about a movie about their late father financed by the younger brother, it is no longer a bone, but an invitation to open warfare.
Shah Rukh Khan: The reincarnation of India's Pushtun hero
Is he the Gandhis' crowd-puller?
Of the handful of men who led the struggle for India’s independence, the most tragic and least known is Abdul Ghaffar Khan, commonly known as Badshah Khan, the uncrowned king.
Bachchan vs Gandhi
What is the feud between Amitabh Bachchan and India's first political family?
There is no better way to turn a man against you than by attacking his ego. If Amitabh does indeed come out openly to oppose the Congress Party and Sonia Gandhi, it is partly because they have had a hand in making him lose face among the Indian people.
Last September the Indian government gave The Big B a slap on his face: They demoted him down the rungs of the VVIP, the Very Very Important People and pushed him down from category “Y” to “X”.
A different Indian in Washington
When the Republicans formulated their response to the Obama budget, they picked Bobby Jindal to deliver it. Who is this staunchly-Catholic ethnically-Indian governor of the Deep South state of Louisiana, touted as the Republicans' best bet against Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential elections?
Many Indians aspire to be President of India. But only one Indian, at least for the moment, can aspire to be President of the United States.
In Imelda's own words
"I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use ‘Imeldific’ to mean ostentatious extravagance".
Flash points: Anniversaries in China to watch in 2009
March 10: Anniversary of the invasion of Tibet
Zhao Ziyang's Tiananmen Square speech
Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang visiting and talking to protesting students gathered on Tiananmen Square before the June 4th Incident
Date: May 19, 1989
Location: Tiananmen Square, Beijing. China
Obama: An Asian American?
They are calling him the first post-racial president. But theasiamag.com is playing the race card and claiming him as one of our own.
Post-racial and bi-coastal: in the four short years since catapulting to global recognition from little-known Chicago politician, Barack Obama, the junior US Senator from Illinois, has meticulously outlined himself as many things to many people.
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Another Point
An imaginary factual blog of General David Petraeus, Commander, United States Central Command