Pretty Woman Gets Mauled

Gere Shetty
Reuters

Shilpa Shetty is front-page news again, this time for being on the receiving end of some serious lovin’.

Shetty joined Richard Gere at Seena Taan Ke yesterday, an AIDS awareness event in Delhi. The stars, speaking to members of India’s truckdriver community, dispelled the myth that HIV can be transmitted through the act of kissing. Gere, who looked “dizzy” according to some reports, made his point by, er, smothering the Celebrity Big Brother star.

Shetty was visibly uncomfortable and told the audience so (“Yeh thoda zyaada ho gaya,” she said: “This was a bit much”).

Many agreed and are now seeking an apology from Gere. Yesterday afternoon protestors in Mumbai burned the actor in effigy, while in Varanasi crowds gathered, chanting “down with Shilpa Shetty.”

Watch the video here.

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3 Comments         Facebook   RSS 2.0   Permalink   April 16, 2007

Arts and Activism

Rekha Smiling
Rekha (GlobalTalentAssoc.Com)

New Yorkers! Got the Monday blahs?

Jump-start your week tonight with DJ Rekha, as she hosts a panel discussion on “the last 10 years of South Asian art and activism.”

Deepti Hajela, president of the South Asian Journalists Association, will serve as moderator. Participants include author Madhulika Khandelwal, founder of South Asian Youth Action; Sayu Bhojwani; and filmmaker Fariba Alam (remember Bangla East Side?).

For more information and to RSVP, call 212.992.9653 or visit www.apa.nyu.edu. The panel will run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. tonight at the Kimmel Center (8th floor, 60 Washington Square South).

More:
Rekha at Imagine India in San Francisco
Join Rekha and friends Panjabi MC, The Dhol Foundation and Bikram Singh for the 10th anniversary celebration of Basement Bhangra

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Fifth Anniversary Comes and Goes For Guantanamo

Guantanamo Protesters
Protesters outside London’s US Embassy. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

“Demonstrators — some wearing Guantanamo-style orange jumpsuits — staged protests from Melbourne to London and Washington on Thursday against the U.S. military prison in Cuba where terrorism suspects have been held for years without trial.”

January 11 marks five years since detainees were first “shackled, blindfolded” and flown to the camp in Cuba. In total, 770 people have been imprisoned there. Of them, only 10 have been charged with crimes.

“The idea that you can indefinitely detain people, give them no access to their families or initially lawyers, never charge them and torture them in an offshore penal colony, should be absolute anathema to any civilized country in the world,” Michael Ratner of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights told the LA Times.

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son died while serving in Iraq, led protesters in a march to the gates of the Guantanamo facility, shouting “Gitmo prison is a source of shame; no more torture in our name!”

Newly appointed UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon has also called for action to be taken, saying: “like my predecessor (Kofi Annan), I believe the prison should be closed.”

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