Khatola Tribune

All hail Saloo Chowdhury. And file a compliance report within four weeks.
HC applies breaks on Guinness - The Times of India

KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday restrained the Guinness World Records from further printing or selling the 2004 and 2005 editions of its annual records book without properly describing the feat of Saloo Chowdhury and his wife Neena as the first and fastest persons to have circumnavigated the earth by car.

Justice Kalyanjyoti Sengupta directed Guinness not to print or sell or distribute the two editions without properly describing the feat of the Choudhurys in conformity with the consent decree, by a corrigendum.

… you should request a foreign government to screen it for you. You need to know the devastating impact of dad’s regime on your country, no?

Bilal watches movie banned by Papa- The Times of India

After a satisfying meeting with Rahul Gandhi, Musharraf’s son Bilal and the Pakistani president’s brother Javed went to the Films Division auditorium at Mahadev Road for a special screening of Khamosh Paani.

Made in Pakistan, Sabiha Sumar’s film has a special meaning for the Musharrafs ? it is a scathing critique of Zia-ul-Haq’s Islamisation programme and its impact on the ordinary Pakistani.

India has discovered snow scooters. These (“source of employment to the locals”, says Rediff) are being enjoyed to their hilts in Manali.

“The scooter ride was amazing. I really enjoyed it. I haven’t gone abroad, but it feels like it is something like abroad,” said Sachin, a tourist.

Yup, Sachin, it is exactly like abroad. Did you know Brazilians (not to mention Arabs) live their entire lives inside their snow scooters?

Ever been on a snow scooter?

There will be no 59-cent tacos for Narendra Modi, and the murderer is hopping mad. He says it is an insult to the “constitution” — meaning, perhaps, his digestive system?

“By denying me visa the US government has given a lie to its claims that it respects democracies,” he said.

Modi wondered if one country can impose its rules and perceptions on another country.

Denial of visa insult to Constitution: Modi

The BJP, addicted to America’s deep reservoir of inxpensive potato fries, is worried. Their spokesman told the ToI it is a very “serious matter”.
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Singer Parvati Khan dodges the fascists to say her prayers (150,000 chants, no less) in Varanasi.

“Banned” from praying at the temple due to her “offensive” last name, she resorts to stratagems:

The chants and prayers were said from a place near the vicinity of the temple complex. But I managed to enter the temple on March 15 at 4.00 in the morning and perform the abhishek , after concealing my identity

It took her over a year, disguises, hiding in the bushes, and facing danger to life and limb. Was it for the thrill of the chase?

She also claimed that she had fallen ill during her stay there and was injured on the seventh day of her stay, when a security guard became suspicious of her identity and tried to shoot a photograph of her in the narrow lanes towards the temple.

During the long chase, she claimed, she slipped and injured her knee and foot.

Khan dodges Sena, performs ritual- The Times of India

The ever-entertaining Times of India tells us the story of a girl who

was watching television when her mother knelt down for evening prayers. The mother asked her daughter to turn off the television, but the teenager kicked the holy book, and immediately turned into a half-lizard-like creature.

This everyday incident predictably leads to an everyday commotion.

It’s been madness for the last two days at J J Hospital at Byculla which has been besieged by curious mobs desperate to view the freak patient. Denials by harried doctors that any such patient had been admitted proved futile as the crowds continued to push their way in, scanned each ward and almost broke into the intensive care unit for heart patients.

We nod in quiet approval.

It’s a girl, it’s a lizard, it’s a rumour - The Times of India

Life imitates art. Shakti Kapoor caught on camera making sleazy overtures to “aspiring actress” (undercover journalist). Tells her Aishwarya, Rani and Preity made it by sleeping with people. Assaults TV crew when he realises what is going on. Provides great copy, such as

I want to make love to you only because I saw you and I feel you are trustworthy. And if you want to come in this line, you have to do what I am telling to do?

“…only because I saw you” — we like that part.

Maybe they can give him a Filmfare Award before they pack him off to prison.

Shakti’s journey from fame to shame

The best part? This comes a month after he had made a monkey of himself to another fake journalist!

Indiantelevision_com > Telly Chakkar Story > Shakti Kapoor Ko Bakra Banaya!

After contesting an election against Advani, the mascot of Indian masculinity, a change of pace for “Sonia” the hijra — she (ToI insists on “he”) is marrying an Air India pilot (and childhood sweetheart).

Sort of a tangled web, perhaps — there are two boyhood sweethearts, and then one of them has a change of sex, but they are marrying anyway. As they say in desi matrimonials — sex no bar.

A sex change operation did not give her the ability to conceive, but remember, this is India.

We will pray to Bahuchar Mata and to Khwaja Garib Nawaz of Ajmer for a child, but all the same, we have decided to adopt a child,” Sonia said.

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Microsoft’s new India-based technology lab is featured at their TechFest. According to Microsoft’s General Manager of Strategy and Communications, the lab represents the company’s commitment to creating software that appeals to emerging markets.

e says the India lab’s booth tries to recreate the experience of computing in rural India, complete with a less-than-current computer set up for multiple users, a single lamp, dirt on the floor and Indian posters on the wall for authenticity’s sake.

In another endearingly Indian touch,

Schofield remains hush-hush on the actual software the group is showing in the booth.

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