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Jackie Shroff gets into his MUV van which has curtains on the windows. He gets off the van with a certain confidence and swagger, and enters the wedding venue.

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A series of magazine articles on Rekha's marriage, with notes signed by Rekha Mukesh, one dated 4th April 1990, on her one month anniversary. Rekha marries: from here to eternity...

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"When you attend someone else's wedding, you get reminded of your own wedding", tells us a guest.

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Karan Johar: "I shop in Ananya all the time, and I wear a lot of her clothes. I interfere in everything.

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Along with his parents who seem to be waiting at the parking lot next to their cars, Salman Khan seems to be in Ganesh Chaturthi mode at Galaxy Apartments.

Maharashtra·ceremony · highway

It's time for the Ganesh idol to be sent off in a marigold (gaindha) garland bedecked truck, from Galaxy Apartments where Salman Khan lives in Mumbai, accompanied by guests arriving in a Ford Endeavour and a BMW 7 series.

Maharashtra·ceremony

Is Salman Khan secular or just a good Mumbai resident and a typical Maharashtrian who believes in Ganpati Pooja and Ganesh Chaturthi? Watch the whole Khan khaandaan sing and clap to the Hindu 'Om Jaay Jagadish Hare' aarti / arati.

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Kumar Sanu brings his daughter from his second wife, to the recording studio. She is wailing and most unhappy to be in the claustrophobic environment, it seems! Kumar Sanu settles in to the glassed-in recording cabin after getting a tika ve…

music · ceremony

I was always interested in music direction, and my father who used to compose music, I used to help and assist him.

Maharashtra·music · monsoon

During the concert season, I have been travelling a lot and doing concerts, within India and outside too. Christmas is just around the corner, and New Year as well. At this time, singers get a chance to tour a lot.

Uttarakhand·ceremony · festival

The Maha Kumbh Mela is the most awaited festival for devout Hindus in India. The month-long festival is marked by the many religious rituals at specifies auspicious timings.

Uttarakhand·festival · flowers

A flower seller sits by his curated flower dauna packages which will be a favourite for devotees on a pilgrimage to the Kumbh Mela. The Haridwar Kumbh Mela in 2021 is celebrated in a grand manner even when the second wave of Covid is back.

Uttarakhand·festival · ceremony

With his face and body smeared in ask (human or regular firewood?), this Naga Sadhu sits with knotted and matted hair and tries to make verbal contact with an endless soliloquy with our cameraperson at the Kumbh Mela 2021 which was the supe…

Uttarakhand·ceremony

Hindu seers read chants and prayers during the massive super spreader event - the Haridwar Maha Kumbh 2021, planned and coordinate by the government of India in total res-regard to the dangers of the Covid19 virus, thus infecting tens of mi…

Uttarakhand·river · ceremony

What a fabulously dangerous occasion to catch Covid19. Just what was the government thinking? What can the lone cop do, to prevent Covid, to ensure law and order and ensure distancing? No chance for the distancing bit, certainly! The Ganga…

Uttarakhand·river · ceremony

If ever there was an unwiser choice in terms of timing and authorization to hold the Kumbh Mela, we are not aware of it.

Uttarakhand·river · ceremony

Ganga idol is carried in a palanquin to the river at Haridwar, by pandas or Hindu priests. Priests in yellow robes offer prayers to the river eternal from their thali with diya and vermillion red tika powder as well as holy thread.

Uttarakhand·river · ceremony

The largest super spreader event of the globe! When tens of thousands of faithful bathe in the Ganges at the same time, only faith can save them from Covid19, and even that failed...

Uttarakhand·river · ceremony

A havan is held on the banks of the Ganga canal at Haridwar, to the chants of 'Ganga Maa ki jai'.

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Get a ringside view of Republic Day 2021, as seen from India Gate in New Delhi. This is an unusual ceremony year as there will be no crowds in attendance, and a spartan ceremony as well, given the Covid19 conditions, with no visiting dignit…

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Get a ringside view of Republic Day 2021, as seen from India Gate in New Delhi. This is an unusual ceremony year as there will be no crowds in attendance, and a spartan ceremony as well, given the Covid19 conditions, with no visiting dignit…

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Fighter jets and choppers of the Indian Air Force rehearse the flypast ceremony over the Rajpath in New Delhi ahead of India's 72nd Republic Day Ceremony.

music · ceremony

With hundreds of spectators, the leaders of the country like the President, Prime Minister are also in attendance at the Beating of the Retreat ceremony at Vijay Chowk.