Priyanka Bhadani

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Vote for Virat as election ambassador

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After boxer MC Mary Kom was roped in to spread awareness about elections, it’s time for cricketer Virat Kohli to encourage youngsters to cast their vote in the upcoming Delhi Assembly Elections. Posters of the young cricketer asking people to “Teeka Lagao Matdaan Ka” will soon be put across the city to create awareness.

Songs for girl power

Singer Palash Sen collaborates with a radio station to create music that aims at spreading awareness about women issues

The capital has woken up to many issues related to the girl child after the recent gangrape case. Since music has the power to move hearts, music band Euphoria has dedicated their new song, Main Hoon…, based on women empowerment, to the cause.

Students on an exploration trip

Students during their visit to the NGO Goonj; (below) Sundeep with his co-anchor Dipanjana

When many were protesting against the gangrape incident and some were celebrating the beginning of a new year, a bunch of youngsters met over a cup of coffee last week to discuss few other important things at the fifth edition of “Campus Crossroads” — a semi-formal workshop where young people from different backgrounds come together and share their campus experiences, talk about their life, ambitions and achievements.

Profanity gets a rap from music fraternity

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After being targeted for using offensive lyrics and objectifying women in his songs, rapper Honey Singh, recently posted on Twitter, “My past was a wrong choice, but now I deliver completely different music.”

Double roles on a roll

Double role seems to be making a comeback. While 2012 saw films like Rowdy Rathore and Bol Bachchan with lead actors in double role, in 2013 there are a number of such line-ups too.

Humour sans sex-citement

Upset at the use of dialogues with double meaning and sexual innuendo in television comedy shows, the Broadcasting Content Complaint Council (BCCC) has asked entertainment channels not to carry “crass

‘Dented, painted’ creates furore

When the entire country is talking about women’s safety and are protesting vehemently to make a point, son of the President of the country, Abhijeet Mukherjee seems to have a different view. The MP claimed that the women participating in the protests are “pretty women who were dented and painted”.

No parties, it is time for protest

Students protesting at India Gate during the weekend

A day before Christmas, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that before Christmas people should not suffer but enjoy. But sadly, nobody wanted to have fun. Not even those youngsters who are always ready to party hard during the winter vacation.

Winter of discontent

City’s fashion fraternity during the protest march

The cops tried their best to disperse the crowd demonstrating at India Gate by firing tear gas and lathi charge on Saturday. But the protestors braved it all and continued with protesting. They were not scared; the only thing they wanted was justice for the 23-year-old physiotherapy student who was gangraped in the capital.

Tough task of making sequels equal hit feat

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Usually it is difficult to pick up from where you left off, and these days even filmmakers who initiate a sequel think the same. It’s difficult for them to take a successful story forward in a sequel. Salman Khan, whose Dabangg was a blockbuster, recently commented that making Dabangg 2 wasn’t easy.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.