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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Dilip Kumar: Maharashtra holds the roots of my life and career.
Dilip Kumar, reflecting on winning the Lokmat Jeevan Gaurav Award at the Lokmat Maharashtrian of the Year Awards 2011, writes on his blog: “In more ways than one it is Maharashtra that holds the roots of my life and career. I had my schooling at Barnes School in Deolali, Nashik, as a day scholar. The moderate climate, especially the cool summers attracted my parents to stay in Deolali since my mother was ailing with asthma. Years later, after I became known as actor Dilip Kumar, I revisited Deolali in the course of my search all over Nashik District for an ideal location to film Ganga Jamuna’s outdoor scenes.” Continue reading
Amitabh Bachchan: The Lokmat Maanbindu award also contains my respected mother’s blessings
Addressing the audience at the Lokmat Maharashtrian of the Year Awards 2011, where he received a Lokmat Maanbindu Award from President Pratibha Patil, Amitabh Bachchan said, “I have spent 42 years– that’s more than three fourths of my life – in the venerable land of Mumbai and Maharshtra. And excepting my parents and education, whatever else I have been blessed with – recognition and public respect, my life partner and my grihast jeevan (married life), my children, my grandchildren – I have received only because of the love, respect and honour I have received from this wonderful, benevolent land of Maharashtra.” Continue reading
RaOne, Ready up for worst film award at Golden Kela
Shah Rukh and Salman Khan’s much hyped films ‘Ra.One’, ‘Ready’ and ‘Bodyguard’, are competing for the worst film trophy at the fourth annual Golden Kela awards, a spin off on Hollywood’s Razzies, says this PTI report I’m reproducing here. … Continue reading
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Groucho Marx’s funniest ones: I intend to live forever, or die trying
for a truly lateral view and the humour of the anti-climax, there’s nobody quite like Groucho. Here’s a collection of some of his best oneliners. Very funny. Very Groucho Marx. Enjoy, and if you like this lazy copy-paste job, let me know 
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants: Sidhuisms!
I came across some of Navjyot Singh Sidhu’s witticisms for which way back in 2001, we at MAX (Pavan R Chawla, Kaacon Sethi, Jagdeep Dighe, Anil Garg and others) had not only coined the term ‘Sidhuisms’, but had also created a website devoted to Sidhuisms. It received huge support and lots of content contributions from viewers of MAX and users of the site. Continue reading
Shobhaa De: Maharashtra must regain its lost glory
Shobhaa De: I have a positive association with the Lokmat Group, having guest-edited their Diwali Issue this year. But more than that, I appreciated the huge amount of hard work that has gone into the short listing of nominees in different categories (for the Lokmat Maharashtrian of the Year Awards 2011). The entire process is transparent and there is no agenda behind it… I was particularly inspired by the remarkable work done by Pravin Gavankar from Kolhapur; as also by Raju Shetty’s involvement with Maharashtra’s farmers. Continue reading
Dr Achyut Godbole urges Maharashtrians to be innovative, entrepreneurial
Dr Achyut Godbole says: I have found the story of Dr. Bavaskar from Mumbai, who has done pioneering work on relieving the agony caused by scorpion bite, very impressive. I am also deeply moved by the activists who came from outside Maharashtra and have committed themselves to the uplift of the needy people of this state. Continue reading
President Pratibha Patil to give away Lokmat Maharashtrian of the Year 2011 awards
President Pratibha Patil will give away the Lokmat Maharashtrian of the Year Awards for 2011 at a grand function in Mumbai on the 21st of December. Eight individuals will receive awards for significant work and service in the fields of Social Service & Public Service, Science & Technology, Politics, Business, Arts, Literature, Sports and Entertainment… The independent jury of eminent Maharashtrians comprises of well known and respected Maharashtrians (in alphabetical order of first names) Achyut Godbole, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Dhanraj Pillay, Julio Ribeiro, Medha Patkar, Rajdeep Sardesai and Shobha De. Continue reading
LanguEdge: The best of the worst funny analogies!
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. Continue reading
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