India shining at Padma awards .....

and the achievement awards go to ...

the legendary R K Laxman
'the TOI cartoonist manages to bring out the human element in a beautiful manner'
'happiness and sadness wid the same stroke'
- President Abdul Kalam

a lesson for u Devile.....


Gladys Steines
for all her efforts to help the marginalized ..
she suffered when they burned her husband and 2 kids alive

wat was remarkable was 'she forgave the killers'
as Jesus did a long time back on a Friday


Sharukh Khan
the actor wid a difference
he went away from the formula film
and dared make 'Swades' .. 'Devdas'.... 'Darr' ..

6.4 m Indians below 18 are married .....

sad, but true ... child marriages still do happen in my India

got dis from today's TOI
sorry Kesh

for telling dis to the world
but we gotta fight it

UNHOLY MATRIMONY

Rajasthan tops the list wid 5.61m the state where Sati still happens too
(under age refers to males below 21 and woomen below 18, the legal age for legal marriage)

dis can happen only in India ...

B.L. Munjal the billionaire has a busy day
but today he took time out to smile

dis octogenarian patriarch of the $1.8 billion Hero group recd a chq. of Rs. 700/- from Rashtrapati Bhavan
towards local conveyance and daily allowance for making it to the Padma Bhushan award function on March 28, 2005