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Oct 11, 1999

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All Tied Up

This "videshi bahu" stayed at home. Opting out of the campaign trail, Congressman Satish Sharma's wife Sterre Sharma organised a music show in Delhi last week through her NGO Kalakar Trust, teaming up Indian folk artistes with a French student troupe. "I planned this much before the elections were announced," she says, "and I don't like politics anyway." What she dislikes just as much is the controversy over Sonia Gandhi's foreign origins. "It's nonsense," says the Dutch-born Sterre who's been in India for 28 years. "How come they didn't think of talking about this before?" Indeed.

The Company of Singh
Khuswant Singh Rarely fazed by controversies that visit him, writer Khushwant Singh is fuming right now. "Some marginal Urdu newspapers have protested," he rages at the ruckus raised by a section of the Pakistani press over a picture of him pecking the cheek of Pakistan envoy Ashraf Jehangir Qazi's daughter, "and the Indian press is cashing in on it to portray the whole of Pakistani society as medieval and backward." He's furious.

Sister Act
He's her beau in Aditya Chopra's Mohabbatein and Raj Kumar Santoshi's new film. But hello, what's this? In Mansoor Khan's Josh, Aishwarya Rai and Shah Rukh Khan are siblings. Khan laughs off all allusions to the mixed-up celluloid relationships: "Hey, she's the best looking woman in the world. And I'm her twin. So what does that say about me?" Beats us.

Q&A:Shekhar Suman
The most ubiquitous face on TV these days, Suman talks about his show Movers and Shakers going live:

Shekhar Suman Do you have what it takes to go live?
I guess so. I'll put my best foot forward. I'm also ready to take the flak.

With so much of you on the show, why not name it Movers and Shekhar?
A. That would be megalomania. People wouldn't be able to stand me. Already they are cut up about me doing so much on TV.

But you love the limelight, don't you?
Oh you bet. That's like asking a journalist, you like your bylines to be recognised, don't you?

Your new serial is about an actor obsessed with fame. Is that you?
Yes and no, there is a part of me there. All actors who are termed as superstars come across that way.

Why do people love to bitch about you?
Success breeds animosity. People are so wicked they waited 20 years for Amitabh Bachchan to fall. Now they're revelling in it. I'm making news every day and they don't like it. It's like being India's most wanted.

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