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• Janhvi Kapoor theStack A RAJA COMES OUT WITH

wishes to honour TOO MANY MEN, TOO FEW WOMEN HIS SIDE OF THE STORY
Former telecom minister has questioned
mom’s legacy By Ravinder Kaur; Orient Blackswan his boss the then prime minister Manmohan
Singh’s ‘palpable silence’ on 2G scam
There is increasing concern over the likely adverse consequences of
such highly masculine populations. Most work on adverse sex ratios IN A TELL-ALL book published a month after his
Sridevi’s daughter Janhvi Kapoor, who • Disha, Tiger seek has dealt with the identification, patterns and causes acquittal in the 2G spectrum scam case, former
is gearing up for her debut in Dhadak, `5 crore for joint ad of skewed sex ratios; Too Many Men, Too Few Women telecom minister Andimuthu Raja has questioned
hopes to earn the same amount of love Disha Patani and Tiger is the first book to focus specifically on the social former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s “palpa-
from the audience like the veteran actor Shroff have become one of consequences of the skewed sex ratio in both India ble silence” in defending the telecom policy that
received. Her foray in films comes a few the most sought after cou- and China. Well-known sociologists, economists and he himself had approved. In his book 2G Saga
months after Sridevi’s death this February. ples of Bollywood. For this demographers come together to explore the social Unfolds, Raja slammed the then CAG Vinod Rai
The actor, who stars opposite Ishaan reason, when an oil brand ap- consequences of a skewed sex ratio from varied saying the office of the Comptroller and Auditor
Khatter in the Hindi adaptation of Marathi proached them for a TV com- perspectives: the position of women in communities General was “severely compromised” by Rai who
with fewer women; the likely increase in incidents of
had “ulterior motives” in over-reaching his consti-
blockbuster Sairat, reportedly said she is mercial together, they wanted crime and violence; the impact on cultural practices tutional function while auditing accounts relating
aware of the late actor’s legacy and wishes to a nice remuneration for the such as dowry and bride price, as well as on domestic to the 2G spectrum allocation.
endorsement. If reports doing
honour it. “I’m aware of it (the legacy) but the rounds are to be believed, violence; and possible policy and reform measures that Raja, who wrote the book during the trial of
I don’t think there’s a fear. I feel like mom then the real-life couple de- governments can undertake to correct the gender imbalance. the case, claimed that he had got Manmohan
has earned and got so much love, gratitude manded a whopping sum of -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Singh’s “approval to go ahead” for allocating 2G
and adulation from people. There’s a lot of `5 crore for the endorsement telecom spectrum to new
gratitude I feel towards that, which even deal together. “The market- KOI GOOD NEWS? players after he explained
she felt. I want to make them happy. I want ing team of a renowned oil By Zarreen Khan; HarperCollins India the whole process and that
there was enough spectrum
to earn the same kind of love,” a PTI report brand wanted to position When Mona Mathur of Dehradun had married her college sweet- available. Singh, he went
quoted Janhvi as saying. The actor said their product as the choice of heart Ramit Deol of Amritsar, there were two things she wasn’t on to claim, was repeat-
fitness enthusiasts. Disha and
Sridevi never interfered in her acting Tiger seemed to be a perfect prepared for: 1. The size of the Deol family — it put any Sooraj edly misinformed by his
process and wanted her to experience fit as brand ambassadors Barjatiya movie to shame 2. The fertility of the Deol family - they advisers and that telecom
things on her own. “She supported me since the two are known to reproduce faster than any other species known to lobbies had influence over
a lot but I think both of us were clear be health freaks. Consider- mankind For four years now, Mona and Ramit have the Prime Minister’s Office
that she wanted this to be my own ing they haven’t featured in done the unthinkable and remained childless. Of (PMO). “The UPA govern-
journey. I remember reading lines a commercial together, the course, that also means that they’ve battled that ment’s and even more
with her around. But she never team felt the ad would have one question day in and day out: ‘Koi Good News?’ so Dr Manmohan Singh’s
palpable silence in rela-
It doesn’t matter that they have been happy to be
said ‘Do it like this or that’. She the novelty factor. When child-free — they are married; they are expected tion to defending my wholly
the team approached them,
would always say, ‘I want you to the duo asked for `5 crore to make babies. After all, there are grandparents, justified actions” was like
find this on your own, do it on as fee. great-grandparents, uncles, aunts and even colony “silencing of our nation’s collective conscience”.
your own’,” Jahnvi said. aunties in waiting. Brutally honest, thoroughly Raja also claimed that the former prime minis-
irreverent, Koi Good News? is the funniest book you’ll ter did not have any clue about the CBI raids with
read this year. regard to the spectrum allocation. “On October
---------------------------------------------------------- 22, 2009 (after CBI raided telecom ministry and of-
fices of some telecom operators) I met the Prime
• KYLIE IS ‘SELF-MADE’ BILLIONAIRE’ AT 20 I DON’T SEE THE BLUE MOON DAY Minister in his office in South Block at around
By Santhosh Sivaraj; Invincible
7.00 pm. T.K.A. Nair (the then principal secretary
FORBES VALUES JENNER’S FIRM AT $800M AND RAISES HER OVERALL WORTH TO $900M MYSELF AS in the PMO) was also present. People will find it
At the age of 20, the youngest member of the A VICTIM’ Things were never the same for five ordinary individuals who were hard to believe that the PM was quite surprised
extended reality-TV Kardashian clan, Kylie lost at crossroads and there was no way back. They had no other when I told him about the CBI raids,” he wrote.
Jenner is on track to become America’s choice but to take a plunge into their deepest fears and leave He termed the 2G Scam as a “shameful blem-
youngest “self-made” billionaire. The young the rest to destiny. The individuals were tested away from their ish on the sanctity of the administrative system
mother, who gave birth to daughter Stormi comfort zones and it produced abstruse results — a of the country”. “It is my conviction consequent
in February, set up Kylie Cosmetics two years PhD scholar fights to win a pizza-making contest and to the trial proceedings that there was political
ago and the company has already sold more a tennis prodigy runs for his life on a war-torn, blood- motivation to kill UPA 2 and Vinod Rai’s was the
than $630 million worth of makeup, Forbes ied island. Extreme circumstances and their conse- shoulder on which the gun was placed,” he wrote.
has revealed. The magazine has conserva- quences made these ordinary individuals extraordi- A special court recently acquitted Raja and all
tively valued her company at $800 million nary. Was the test imposed on them by someone? Or other accused on charges of cheating in the sale
and raised her overall worth to $900 million did they invite it on themselves? The book questions of radiowave licences in 2008 that derailed the-
by throwing in earnings from television pro- an individual’s priorities, ridicules worldly routines then Manmohan Singh-led government. While CAG
grams, endorsements and after-tax dividends. and redefines happiness. Santhosh Sivaraj considers put presumptive loss in allocation of spectrum
Jenner owns 100 per cent of the company, Sunny Leone the journey of life to be the destination in itself and at 1.76 lakh crore, the scam had led to Supreme
• Star shines Kylie means business which started out with a $29 “lip kit”. (In an interview) that pushes him to seek newer avenues in life. Court cancelling 122 licences sold to companies.

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