Today is the 61st birthday of Shivaji Rao Gaikwad. Well, if you don’t know who we are talking about, then you are up for a great trouble. How can someone not know Rajni “demi-God” kanth. He is the one who turned down the offer to act in the flick <em>Mission Impossible</em> for he did not like the title. Everything is possible with Rajnikanth (okay, we just coined in one of the numerous Rajni jokes. Time’s up).

When Neeraj Grover murder trial began on October 16, 2008, hardly anyone would have foreseen that the Indian judiciary will allow someone who has chopped a human body into pieces to be let off so easily. A Mumbai court on Friday sentenced Maria Susairaj and her boyfriend Emile Jerome, an ex-navy officer, to three and ten years of rigorous imprisonment respectively. However, the judiciary allowed Maria to walk free as she had already completed three years in jail.

You can call him ‘Bad’ or ‘Dangerous’, but still he was the most loved and adored pop star all across the globe. Indeed, we are talking about Michael Joseph Jackson, the one and only ‘King of Pop’ who mesmerised the world with his cult moon walking dance steps. The legend’s magic was such that there is hardly anyone who has not been inspired by the genius’ work. The entire world came to a standstill when MJ suffered a cardiac arrest and breathed his last on June 25, 2009 creating a void in the musical world that can never be filled.

<strong>A year since 26/11 and our TV stars talk of how nothing seems to have majorly changed in the security measures taken for the city and her people.</strong> It’s been a year since 26/11 when 10 terrorists had the better of our establishment, when close to 200 people died in the spine-chilling attacks on Mumbai and since we promised to make our city and our country a better place to live in.

Global warming is fine but the world has been sweating with the global financial meltdown. The markets world over have taken a beating with stocks drying up. The impact as usual has been loss of jobs as most companies have opted for stringent cost cutting measures.