The Indian Express -- Leisure

Thursday, November 27 1997

TODAY'S CROSSWORD TODAY'S ZODIAC

Big B's Major Saheb lost on the Army

The Big B came, saw and conquered....or so it seemed until the National Defence Academy (NDA), Pune, put its foot down against what it considered to be a grossly misrepresented portrayal of the academy in Major Saheb, an Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited film. The movie, in which the Big B plays an Army man, should have been released long ago. But it seems to be entangled in a mire of objections raised by the Army authorities, with the result that the much-awaited film is gathering dust in the cans.

Woman priests in Kerala end male monopoly

It's the theory of liberation at its utmost: Young women, chanting slokas inside the sanctum sanctorum of temples. They have been doing it for the past three weeks at two temples set up by Mata Amrithananda Mayi at Kaimanam in Thiruvananthapuram and Kodungalloor.

This bride is wedded to publicity

First, she waited at the church for a groom who never showed. Now, she's winning sympathy, and some scorn, while he's off warming his cold feet on a Tahitian beach. Literally left at the altar on Saturday before 250 guests, Nicole Contos went ahead anyway with the reception, estimated to have cost more than $65,000 and even danced to the anthem of the jilted, I will survive. The 27-year-old teacher, whose father owns the American Banana Co., then went public with her story.

This bride is wedded to publicity

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Big B's Major Saheb lost on the Army

Woman priests in Kerala end male monopoly

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