Word: salman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...among its patrons (most visitors come from Britain, Germany, India and the U.S.) and also conducts wider market research to decide exactly which prominent people, living or dead, should be immortalized in a kind of tallow known as "Japan wax". Popularity among the patrons was what won Bollywood star Salman Khan his Tussaud's debut in January. But a dip in popularity can see figures hustled off into storage to make way for fresh exhibits. Still, there's always the possibility of rehabilitation: The chunky singer Gary Barlow was dusted down and reinstalled in the Music Zone after his 1990s...
...matter of peculiar distress to many Indian bibliophiles that most of the successful Indian books of the past few decades have not only been written in English but authored by Indians, or the children of Indians, living outside the country. Writers such as Salman Rushdie, who left India in his teens and has lived abroad for most of his adult life, and Nobel-prizewinning writer V.S. Naipaul, born in Trinidad of Indian descent, may be lauded around the globe but their reception in India is often less than warm...
Indian news channels often spice up bulletins with a chutney of Bollywood gossip. But for the last few days, television news itself has begun to resemble Bollywood, thanks to the song and dance over the prison sentences awarded to two leading film stars, Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan. Serious news anchors have weighed in on what a calamity the prison terms will be for the actors, their families, the film industry and the nation at large, while stories with perhaps more import - the possibility the government could collapse because of the controversial U.S.-India nuclear deal, sa, or terrorist bombings...
...Salman Khan's story is less sensational by comparison. He was charged with shooting endangered gazelles while taking a break from filming a Bollywood flick in Rajasthan in 1998. In April 2006, he was found guilty and sentenced to five years, finally landing in prison last week after losing an appeal of his conviction...
...general Sheikh Ibrahim al-Ghaith and his public-relations officer cheerfully offered a gift of a handful of books in Arabic, including an official history of the commission, a collection of Saudi fatwas (religious rulings) and an Islamic calendar. But al-Ghaith declined to comment on the case of Salman al-Huraisi or those of other alleged victims of the commission's moral zeal. "Sorry," he explained. "We have our regulations...