Anjali quickly decided not to pursue her career in medicine. If she had worked in a government hospital, she would have had to do her fair share of nights and weekends in hospital, which would have been tough when Sachin was back in Bombay between tours. Had she worked in private practice as Dr Anjali Tendulkar, she reckoned she would be consulted for her name rather than her expertise. Anjali is an all-or nothing person and she couldn't have just dabbled in doctoring. Moreover, she wanted to devote herself to keeping her husband in the right frame of mind to play his best cricket. A fascinating excerpt from Annabel Mehta and Georgina Brown's book, My Passage to India.
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'Laapataa Ladies opened a lot of doors for me.' 'I have gotten so much love from audiences and seniors in the industry that it's overwhelming.' 'I get calls from superstars. I'm holding my heart and it's like, "Oh my God, they are calling me? I am their fan and they love my work!"'
'I've been a villain, I've been a champ, I've been a superhero, I've been a zero, I've been a rejected fan, and I've been a very, very resilient lover.'
'I wish every year to be like this where I have amazing but different films coming up.'
'In India, managers and the leadership almost glorify overworking.'
Coach Jaspal Rana and confidence made all the difference to Manu Bhaker's Paris Olympics campaign
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'The government wants to ban surrogacy and take away women's fundamental right to do what she wants with her body.'
'I don't think I ever lost the confidence as an actor.'
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'During the 2015 IPL, Kohli Sir greeted me with folded hands after I scored a 21-ball 45.' 'Everybody knows he has played many such innings, but what he was doing was motivating a 17 year old.' 'It speaks volumes of him as a captain and human being,' Sarfaraz Khan tells Aruneel Sadadekar/Rediff.com
She wept when the director took 101 takes to shoot a song for Heeramandi.
While advanced stages of cancer may not be completely curable, with timely awareness, appropriate diagnosis and medical intervention, you can try to improve the symptoms and prolong your life span.
'When the bombing happened in the Taj Mahal hotel in 2008, that was a very sad moment, but he really took care of the people, took care of everybody and that was when you saw some of his best moments.' 'There are some things which we will never forget. That is when the best of a person comes out.'
The government on Saturday said a committee will be formed to propose safety measures for healthcare professionals even as OPD services were hit across the country as doctors joined the 24-hour nationwide strike called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to protest the alleged rape and murder of a trainee medic in Kolkata.
'She could have sat down with the students and taken a list of their grievances including their allegations and suspicions.' 'Not all suspicions are true, but you have to listen, you have to let the steam come out.'
'He is not just an irreplaceable force of nature but represents mega stardom in a way that only he can!!!!!'
Kerala Finance Minister K M Mani resigned on Tuesday night after pressure mounted on him from the ruling Congress-led United Democratic Front to quit.
'...is to crack the first project.' 'If you become popular from that, it's a win-win.'
At 39, he is, understandably, a different footballer but the hunger for goals remains.
Mumbai's Church of St John the Evangelist or Afghan Church looks today as good as it did 158 years ago.
'How could anyone do this to a child? And how can a father cope with such a trauma? But then we actors have to rise above personal emotions.'
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'You have to be good in your project that's releasing today for you to be working on something tomorrow. That will always be the case.'
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'It is just that they are not in the limelight in a city like Mumbai.' 'It is not a lonely journey, but a tough journey for sure.'
'At his wedding with Patralekha, I officiated as the groom's father as Raj has lost both parents, and that's the relationship we share today.'
Film folk posted moments from their Eid celebrations.
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'I would have become a big star 11 years ago if things had worked as per my plans.'
The Mumbai batter lit the Chinnaswamy stadium with his brilliant batting.
'All the parts that I have played till now, I have got them only through auditions.' 'I auditioned my a** off.'
Valhalla is undoubtedly enriched by the presence of Unnikrishnan Gangadharan Kartha. He would have already convened the 'fall in' and regaled his friends with tales of the distant land that they once inhabited.
IMAGES from the Group 2 Super 8 match, played between South Africa and USA, in North Sound, Antigua, on Wednesday.
History has not seen a cricketing rivalry as fierce as this this century, every ball bowled every run taken, coming with no quarter given. Ahead of India's five Test tour of Australia, Norma Astrid Godinho/Rediff.com takes a walk down memory lane, recounting India's sojourns Down Under from 1947 to 2021, in a 4-part series.
'The world needs Gandhi now more than any other time in history.'
"No Sir" was the prompt reply of Colonel Manpreet Singh when he was offered a peace posting upon his promotion in 2021. Instead, he volunteered to stay and command the 19 Rashtriya Rifles, a battalion credited with major kills of terrorists including Hizbul Mujahideen poster boy Burhan Wani.
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New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has been awarded Sir Richard Hadlee medal, the country's highest cricketing honour, for his inspirational leadership and exemplary batting at a glittering ceremony in Auckland.
