As an eight-year-old he
shook hands with a visiting US vice-president in his village in Ludhiana district. Now at
41, as a Canadian MP, Gurmant Singh Grewal routinely rubs shoulders with
world leaders. Grewal created a record of sorts in Canada when he took just four years
after immigrating to enter Parliament. Last week he was in India as part of a three-member
delegation to the subcontinent: "I'm here to break the ice in Indo-Canadian ties that
got frozen after last year's nuclear blasts." Ice? What ice? The warm welcome he got
would melt a glacier.
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It's not what she set out to do, but journalist Daljit Dhaliwal is
on People magazine's list of the world's most beautiful people: No. 37 to Michelle
Pfeiffer's No. 1. Hollywood star she is not, but Dhaliwal's ITN World News is seen on 40
TV stations across America, and last year when she had a haircut, a newspaper ran a story
about how men in the US wept. Dhaliwal, 36, one-time anchor of BBC's Asia Today and
London-born daughter of Indian immigrants, shrugs: "I believe the entire programme
needs to be recognised." But if the anchor's in the news, it doesn't hurt.
Mee Paresh Rawal Boltoy
Looks like it's Paresh Rawal's lot to play the famous and the infamous. After doing
the role of Vallabhbhai Patel in Sardar, and a spoof on Laloo Prasad Yadav in Dandnayak,
the bad guy from Bollywood is stepping into Nathuram Godse's shoes in the Hindi version of
the banned Marathi play, Mee Nathuram Godse Boltoy (I am Nathuram Godse Speaking). The
play will tour the US next month. But isn't he scared of earning the wrath of those who
decried it in India last year? Naah. "I do not have any political aspirations or
affiliations, so I have nothing to fear from anyone." Mee Paresh Rawal boltoy.
Look Here Bipasha Basu and Akshay Kumar are married. So are
Kareena Kapoor and Bobby Deol. So far, so good. But when
Bobby flips for Bipasha, the drama begins. Take this for what it is, folks: a movie
script. The film directed by Abbas-Mastan marks hot-shot model Bipasha's Hindi film debut.
Producer Vijay Galani picked the former Supermodel of the World winner, best-known for her
Calida panties ad, after screentesting "almost all the top models". Says Galani:
"She has the right look and attitude for the role." She has the right look for
anything, buddy.
As an eight-year-old he
shook hands with a visiting US vice-president in his village in Ludhiana district. Now at
41, as a Canadian MP, Gurmant Singh Grewal routinely rubs shoulders with
world leaders. Grewal created a record of sorts in Canada when he took just four years
after immigrating to enter Parliament. Last week he was in India as part of a three-member
delegation to the subcontinent: "I'm here to break the ice in Indo-Canadian ties that
got frozen after last year's nuclear blasts." Ice? What ice? The warm welcome he got
would melt a glacier. 
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famous and the infamous. After doing
the role of Vallabhbhai Patel in Sardar, and a spoof on Laloo Prasad Yadav in Dandnayak,
the bad guy from Bollywood is stepping into Nathuram Godse's shoes in the Hindi version of
the banned Marathi play, Mee Nathuram Godse Boltoy (I am Nathuram Godse Speaking). The
play will tour the US next month. But isn't he scared of earning the wrath of those who
decried it in India last year? Naah. "I do not have any political aspirations or
affiliations, so I have nothing to fear from anyone." Mee Paresh Rawal boltoy. 
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