'I don't see how any Indian government or any Indian military leadership can now ask the soldiers to patrol without weapons.'
The trouble is that trying anything more than the routine CBMs to affect a paradigm change in the bilateral relationship is a bit of a catch-22 situation: without trust, bold initiatives are not possible; but how do you build trust without bold initiatives, writes Sushant Sareen.
'The UPA was the gang that couldn't shoot straight. The NDA is the gang that can't stop shooting. They (the Modi government) are shooting at anybody, everybody, all directions, shooting themselves in the foot.'
Bollywood has given us quite a few suspense tales before, and many of them have done well at the box office.
'I hear of so many people not getting their money and producers not taking their calls to pay them.'
R Madhavan soaks in the fun as well.
Apart from religious hatred that makes it kosher for the Sunnis to massacre the Shias, the targeting of Shias serves a political objective of the Islamists in destabilising the Pakistani state. As a result, the Sunni extremists are killing two birds with one stone, says Sushant Sareen.
What if we made X-Men here in India?
India discard Yuvraj Singh scored an unbeaten 204 as Rest of India set Mumbai an improbable target of 782 runs for victory on the penultimate day of the Irani Trophy in Jaipur on Monday. Mumbai were at 79 for no loss, after opener Sushant Marathe retired hurt after injuring his finger, when stumps were drawn on the fourth day at the Sawai Mansingh stadium.
'We always want to pull down the other person.' 'All we need right now is sensitivity, not just in our industry, but everywhere.'
Nitish Kumar will be the chief minister only till the time the BJP wishes, points out Ramesh Menon.
Lahore's Aanaahad on his debut film and winning a Best Actor award for it.
The Tiger Shroff-Disha Patani starrer saw an outstanding opening weekend.
The hits and misses of the week.
The bottom line is that carrying out Kasab's death sentence is not going to bring closure to the 26/11 case. For that matter, the conviction of the terrorists being tried in Pakistan will not end the menace of terrorism in India. The real closure will come only with the closure of the Jihad factory in Pakistan, which in turn will happen only if Pakistan takes concerted and sincere efforts to de-radicalise its society and its polity, neither of which are on the anvil.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Sukanya Verma looks at the many, many reasons for marital discord reported in Hindi movies.
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