Weeks before he was convicted in a widely publicized trial for allegedly running over pavement dwellers while intoxicated, Bollywood actor Salman Khan freewheeled with INNLIVE on the sidelines of a movie set on early disappointment, dealing with rejection and his approach to painting. The case has gone into appeal to a higher court. The following are excerpts from the interview.
Your father Salim Khan says one won't catch you doing anything but acting. How do you respond?
What you see is what I am. I cry and laugh on screen as I would in real life. I never play character roles like that of a 60-year-old man or a local Indian with a Bhojpuri accent. I don't do things that alienate the broader audience, so it has to be homogeneous but basic and simple.
A proposal by the Kerala Women’s Commission proposal to curb marriage expenditure has started a debate that touches on issues like class and migration.
A proposal by the Kerala Women’s Commission proposal to curb marriage expenditure has created ripples in the state’s wedding industry and sparked a debate that touches on issues like class and migration.
The panel urged the state government to draft a legal framework limiting the total wedding expenditure to Rs 5 lakh by imposing caps on individual expenses.
India’s respectable cultural tradition of revering elders has several shortcomings. The most personal way in which Indians experience this is when it comes to marriage. Indians, both men and women, lack agency when it comes to making the most important decision of their life.
I have nothing against marriage (arranged or otherwise). Indeed, marriage and the scripted Indian life provide a degree of stability to an otherwise chaotic country.
For much of his life, M.A.M. Ramaswamy—former chairman of the $1.8 billion Chettinad group—displayed an uncanny ability to pick the winning horse. Such was his success rate that the 83-year-old patriarch of the Tamil Nadu-based business group—one of the biggest and oldest in south India—was even listed in the Guinness World Records for having won more than 500 classic horse races.
But now, in his old age, the wheelchair-bound widower, is perhaps regretting the biggest bet he ever placed in his life: The choice of his heir.
Amazon and Micromax are on a shopping spree in Telangana state! After setting up its largest Indian fulfilment centre (FC) in the state, Amazon, the global e-commerce giant is now planning its second FC in Telangana. The good news is that the proposed FC will be larger than the existing one, Telangana IT and panchayat raj minister KT Rama Rao said on the sidelines of the inauguration of Amazon's biggest FC in Kothur, Mahbubnagar district.
The minister also said that during his Seattle visit last month, he had invited Amazon's web services team to evaluate options of setting up its data centre in the state.
It is common enough knowledge that Islam is growing massively in India. Sure, the alarmist concerns about Muslims overtaking Hindus are overblown, but the religion is still expanding singificantly in India – as evidence by the Pew Research Centre's conclusion that by 2050, India will have the largest Muslim population of any country in the world.
Beyond India too, Islam's ranks are swelling. But what that same report also shows is that Hinduism happens to be the fastest growing religion for a very motley set of countries.
One of a Reddit user took the data from the Pew Research Centre's The Future of World Religions report, and turned it into a map of the world's fastest-growing religions.
Four bomb squad canines who have saved countless lives in their busy career of sniffing out explosives, can finally look forward to a loving home post retirement instead of being put down after years of faithful service.
Last week, INNLIVE featured a shocking discovery that left animal lovers heart broken: The Indian Army in a response to right to information query admitted that it euthanizes its dogs and horses on retirement or when they are “considered unfit for one month active service”.
After years of taunting and trauma over her true gender identity, Somnath Banerjee underwent a sex-change surgery and chose a name that would boldly declare who she really was: Manabi, simply meaning ‘woman’ in Bengali.
Manabi Bandopadhyay, 50, begins her new job as principal of Krishnagar Women’s College in West Bengal this week—the first transgender person to hold such a senior academic position in the country.
India has a population of 490,000 transgender people, according to census data from 2011, the first year the country began to record their numbers.
