Bollywood

This is not the Pakistan of disastrous floods or Taliban terror. In one episode of her new reality TV show, Komal Rizvi attends a party in Karachi, where illegal alcohol flows freely and the beautiful people chat in English rather than Urdu.

India's mythology is filled with references to sex between people of the same gender. In one version of the epic Ramayana, two women make love while their husbands are away. Now the country is going back to tolerating its sexual minorities.

TVS Scooty, Hero Honda and Kinetic Motors, the major Indian scooter makers, are using Bollywood stars, expensive advertising, female-only showrooms and a range of scooters as colourful as any lipstick collection to attract upwardly-mobile women buyers.

Indian slum dwellers says they will continue to protest until Danny Boyle deletes the word "dog" from the title of Slumdog Millionaire. The film revolves around  Jamal Malik, who wins the jackpot on the Hindi version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Slumdog Millionaire, a rags-to-riches story of an improbable winner of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, keeps winning awards. It stars Bollywood actors Anil Kapoor and Irfan Khan.

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