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Bomb blasts rocked parts of western India Saturday evening (21:30 IST) leaving five persons dead and another 80 injured.
The latest wave of violence struck the communal tinderbox town of Malegaon in the state of Maharashtra and Modasa in Gujarat.
Bomb blasts are becoming a sad fact of life in India.
Last week, bomb blasts in Delhi took the life of a young boy.
Who having heard the hauntingly beautiful song Meri Bheegi Bheegi Si from the 1973 Hindi film Anamika (Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri now Jaya Bachchan) once can ever forget it.
We drew as much pleasure from viewing Anamika last week as we did when we first watched it in a different age, different country and a different continent.
As a distraught Sanjeev Kumar (Kishore Kumar actually) sings the song Meri Bheegi Bheegi Si, his muse and the source of his sorrow Jaya Bhaduri stands close by, looking angelically beautiful as never before in a pale white saree with a golden border.
In this scene, Guddi girl Jaya was a radiant vision.
Jaya Bhaduri had oodles of acting talent and an endearing – and enduring – appeal, factors completely missing in her pretty daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai, who is all sizzle and no steak.
Our protagonist in Anamika Devendar Dutt (Sanjeev Kumar), a popular novelist, is an embittered misogynist Continue reading »
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