The innocent looking Adit Rao Hydari has shed her all shyness for the cover of FHM Magazine for Dec 2012.The actress is looking hot with black bra and short blue jeans and has gained a lot of attention from all around. In ‘Ye Saali Zindagi’ Aditi displayed her bold avatar and in the coming years she might reveal the same.
With the third installment of Murder, the actress has bagged in two other projects namely ‘Raanjhnaa’ and ‘Naam hai Boss’. All three are slated to release in 2013.
For now have a look on some of the sleazy pics of this hotty.
Bollywood most sexy, hot and racy Ukrainian
actress Nataliya Kozhenova is ready show her new Avatar in her upcoming
movie “The City That Never Sleeps” which is produced by Satish Reddy
and Directed by Haroon Rashid. Nataliya will be seen kissing every part
of the human body. The Nasha of her kissing will addict you and burn
fire within which is totally sparkfull. The beautiful actress is very
passionate of hard kissing.
Nataliya
Said, “I’m a great believer in kissing whatever is offered, a hand, a
cheek, or forehead after all you must start somewhere. Kissing is a art
which express your feeling the smooth kissing is make you feel like
heaven and wildest is go it show the craziness and excitement”
That’s
not all. The actress also said that she is now not only comfortable
with kisses but has become a believer in the love act! Nataliya had
played the controversial role in film Anjuna Beach where she had played a
15-year-old girls Scarlett keeling unfortunate young foreigner who was
brutally raped and murdered in Anjuna Beach on February 2, three years
ago.
The much-awaited wedding of Vidya balan and Siddharth Roy Kapur finally took place today in Chembur temple.The Bollywood couple tied the knot in a simple temple wedding, ending their two-year courtship.
Vidya, who swayed her fans in The Dirty Picture, was looking gorgeous in Kanjeevaram sari.She also wore a delicately designed traditional South Indian gold jewellery.
The wedding commenced early morning around 5 am and took one hour for the rites to be completed.
Apple controversially replaced the search giant's mapping service with its own when it released its latest handset, the iPhone 5.
The move was widely criticised after numerous mistakes were found in Apple Maps's search results.
Google's app introduces functions previously restricted to Android devices.
One analyst said it would prove popular, but added that Nokia still posed a challenge.
The Finnish company recently launched its own free maps app for the iPhone.
The firms are motivated in part by a desire to gather data automatically generated by handsets using their respective software, as well as users' own feedback.
This allows them to fine-tune their services and improve the accuracy of features such as traffic status updates.
Android's advantage
Features Google has introduced that were not available in its earlier iPhone app include:
Voice guided turn-by-turn directions, with estimated travel times.
Indoor panoramic images of buildings that have signed up to its Street View Business Photos service
3D representations of the outlines of buildings that can be viewed from different angles
Vector-based graphics based on mathematical lines and points rather than pre-created bitmap graphics, making it quicker to zoom in and out of an area.
Among the facilities Google's iPhone app lacks that are present in its Android equivalent are indoor maps, the ability to download maps for offline viewing, and voice search.
However, over time, project manager Kai Hansen told the BBC that what was on one platform should be on the other.
"The goal is clearly to make it as unified and consistent an experience as possible," he said.
Ground Truth
One area Apple's own software still has an edge is its integration of Flyover which offers interactive photo-realistic views of selected cities using 3D-rendered graphics within its maps app.
Google offers a similar facility via Google Earth which is promoted in its main maps app, but involves switching into a separate program.
However, for many users the key feature will be the level of accuracy that Google offers.
Since 2008, the firm's Ground Truth project has mashed together licensed data with information gathered by its own fleet of Street View cars and bicycles.
The images and sensor data they collect are analysed by computers and humans to identify street signs, business names, road junctions and other key features. To date, more than five million miles (eight million km) of roads across 45 countries have been covered.
This information is supplemented by the public filing their own reports. iPhone users are encouraged to do likewise by shaking their handsets to activate a feedback function.
"Google Maps, as much as any other map application, lives from the data that we receive," Mr Hansen explained.
"If a road is closed for the next six months, or a road was opened two days ago - these are things that somebody who lives next to the road immediately notices, but if you're not in the area it becomes hard to know.
"The more we can give you the ability to let us know about things that are changing on the map, the more other users will benefit from that corrected information."
He added that once operators verify these reports, changes can be made "within minutes, rather than hours".
Apple is also seeking to improve its own data through user feedback, but risks having less to work with if iPhone users switch to another product.
There had been speculation Apple would reject Google's app from its store for this reason.
But since iPhone sales are at the heart of Apple's fortunes, it may have felt it had more to lose than gain by allowing rival Android handsets to offer a popular app it lacked.
'Neutral' Nokia
Google's launch will also have consequences for Nokia, which recently launched its own Here Maps app on iOS.
The European firm's location division is decades older than Google's, and also has a strong reputation for accuracy.
However, the Here app has had a shaky start with many users complaining about problems with its interface - a consequence of it being written in the HTML5 web language rather than as a native app, specifically for the iOS system.
Even so, one telecoms analyst said it would be premature to write the company out of the game.
"I'm not convinced Nokia as a brand for maps will become a big thing in the consumer consciousness, but what I think is going to happen is that more businesses are going to quietly do deals with it for maps," said Ben Wood from CCS Insight.
"Because of the issues that Apple had, people have suddenly understood the importance of quality mapping and they may also say they don't want to go to Google as all of the data then runs through the search firm, strengthening it as a competitor. Nokia is more of a neutral partner.
"Amazon has already done a deal with Nokia on its Kindle tablets, and I wouldn't be surprised if RIM's new Blackberry devices and Facebook follow."
sorce: BBC
Natakireeti Dr Rajendra Prasad’s latest movie ‘Cinemakeldam Randi..!’ has completed its shooting accept two songs. The movie is currently shooting a song in Hyderabad. This is an out and out comedy entertainer like Rajendra Prasad’s earlier movies.
Seetha Nekkanti and Sunitha Paladugu are producing this movie on sri productions banner. Master Bharath, Ravi Babu, Rajiv Kanakala, Nagineedu, MS Narayana, Murali Krishna and others are playing lead roles in this film. MMG Reddy is the director of this film.
Sravan is composing music for this movie. Ramanji is the cinematographer and Karthika Srinivas is the editor of this film. The movie is expected to be released in February.
Seetha Nekkanti and Sunitha Paladugu are producing this movie on sri productions banner. Master Bharath, Ravi Babu, Rajiv Kanakala, Nagineedu, MS Narayana, Murali Krishna and others are playing lead roles in this film. MMG Reddy is the director of this film.
Sravan is composing music for this movie. Ramanji is the cinematographer and Karthika Srinivas is the editor of this film. The movie is expected to be released in February.
Higher intake of vitamin D seems to protect mental health among women,
besides keeping Alzheimer's at bay, say two new studies in France and
the US.The group led by Yelena Slinin, at the VA Medical Centre in Minneapolis, found that low vitamin D levels among older women are tied with higher odds of global cognitive impairment and cognitive decline.
The group based its analysis on 6,257 community-dwelling older women who had vitamin D levels measured during the Study of Osteopathic Fractures and whose cognitive function was tested by the Mini-Mental State Examination, the Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences reported.
The team led by Cedric Annweiler, at the Angers University Hospital in France, based its findings on data from 498 community-dwelling women.
Among this population, women who developed Alzheimer's disease had lower baseline vitamin D intakes (50.3 micrograms per week) than those who developed other dementias (63.6 micrograms per week) or no dementia at all (59.0 micrograms per week).
These reports follow an article published in the Journals of Gerontology Series A earlier this year that found that both men and women who don't get enough vitamin D - either from diet, supplements, or sun exposure - may be at increased risk of developing mobility limitations and disability.
This week Foreign Policy published a “Sex Issue.” They explained their decision to feature a special issue with these wordsForeign Policy's first-ever Sex Issue…is dedicated…to the consideration of how and why sex—in all the various meanings of the word—matters in shaping the world's politics. Why? In Foreign Policy, the magazine and the subject, sex is too often the missing part of the equation—the part that the policymakers and journalists talk about with each other, but not with their audiences.…Women's bodies are the world's battleground, the contested terrain on which politics is played out. We can keep ignoring it. For this one issue, we decided not to.It is commendable that Foreign Policy highlights the all too common silence about sex and gender politics in its own pages. Hopefully, this is the beginning of a serious and continued engagement, rather than a one off matter. Despite the editors’ good intentions, however, Foreign Policy disturbingly reproduces much of the dominant and sensationalist discourse about sex in the Middle East. The “Sex Issue” leaves much to be desired.
To begin with, it is purportedly about how sex shapes the world’s politics. But with the exception of one article that urges US foreign policy makers to understand women as a foreign policy issue and a target of their “smart-power arsenal,” its focus is almost exclusively on Iran, the Arab world, and China. Thus “the world” is reduced for the most part to Arabs, Iranians, and Chinese—not a coincidental conglomeration of the “enemy.” The current war on women in the United States is erased.
The primary focus is Islam and its production and repression of sex and gender politics in the Middle East. In discussing the role of fatwas in the regulation of sexual practices, Karim Sadjadpour parades a tone of incredulity. Leaving aside his dismissal of the centuries old tradition of practicing Muslims asking and receiving advice on sexual and gender practices, the article assumes an unspoken consensus with its readers: the idea of a mullah writing about sex is amusing if a little perverted.
Then there is the visual. A naked and beautiful woman’s flawless body unfolds a niqab of black paint. She stares at us afraid and alluring. We are invited to sexualize and rescue her at once. The images reproduce what Gayatri Spivak critiqued as the masculine and imperial urge to save sexualized (and racialized) others. The photo spread is reminiscent of Theo van Gogh's film Submission, based on Ayyan Hirsli Ali’s writings, in which a woman with verses of the Quran painted on her naked body and wearing a transparent chador writhes around a dimly lit room. Foreign Policy’s “Sex Issue” montage is inspired by the same logic that fuels Submission: we selectively highlight the plight of women in Islam using the naked female body as currency. The female body is to be consumed, not covered!
For those of us now long familiar with the depictions of the Arab/Muslim woman as repressed but uncontrollable sex object, these images only reify the fascination with the hidden underside of that liberated, secularized self. This week, they also echoed two other media events, which paraded European repulsion from and fascination with the Muslim other. One was the Breivik trial, in which the ultra-right wing crusader against multiculturalism cited al-Qaeda almost daily as a source of tactical inspiration in his war against Islam. As Roqaya Chamseddine argues, the other image Foreign Policy called to our imaginations was that other spectacle of desire and repulsion at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm. There, artist Makode Linde howled in black face and feigned pain as the Swedish minister of culture sliced through his cake-body designed like a “native” African woman. Then she fed it to him.
The painted on niqab introduces, adorns, and interrupts Mona El Tahawy’s feature article: “Why Do They Hate Us: The Real War on Women is in the Middle East.” The title is an adaption of the Fareed Zakaria article that exposed the “real” reasons behind September 11. In a moment when many of us have been relieved to move past binaries, El Tahawy has chosen to revive them.
That choice has inspired a deluge of tweets, blogs, articles, letters, and comments that have applauded her courage or attacked what many have called a reductive and simplistic analysis that flattens women’s lives, histories, and choices. The image of “Tahrir woman” who wore a blue bra that fateful day when Egyptian forces dragged, stripped, and beat her is the backdrop for El Tahawy’s argument: men in the Arab world, and especially Islamists, who she repeatedly locates in the seventh century, hate women.
We would suggest, as many have, that oppression is about men and women. The fate of women in the Arab world cannot be extracted from the fate of men in the Arab world, and vice versa. El Tahawy's article conjures an elaborate battle of the sexes where men and women are on opposing teams, rather than understanding that together men and women must fight patriarchal systems in addition to exploitative practices of capitalism, authoritarianism, colonialism, liberalism, religion, and/or secularism.
Indeed, Mubarak’s authoritarian regime did not use the woman’s body alone as a site of its policies of repression and torture. El Tahawy cites Bouazizi several times as the spark of revolution in the Arab world. But she forgets Khalid Said, whose face—tortured and mangled beyond recognition—became an icon of the revolution. El Tahawy overlooks this shared experience of the body as a site of humiliation and pain. She does not see what Ahdaf Soueif powerfully explained: “As the tortured face of Khaled Said broke any credibility the ministry of the interior might have had, so the young woman in the blue jeans has destroyed the military’s reputation.” Indeed, the hatred of the people, women and men, has been a, if not the, unifying characteristic of colonial, neo-colonial, and authoritarian rulers in the Middle East and beyond.
In her sloppy indictment of Arabs, Muslims, authoritarian rulers, and Islamists, El Tahawy has papered over some messy issues that complicate her underlying message: liberalism is the solution. Why is female genital mutilation practiced widely in Egypt? Because men hate women. Why can't women drive in Saudi Arabia? Because men hate women. Why are men and women against raising the age of consent in Yemen? Because men hate women. Hatred is a one size fits all answer. The use of hatred in this way is important. Hatred is irrational. It is a state or emotion. As Wendy Brown reminds us, such emotional or affective states are understood to be outside of, or unwelcome in, liberalism.
Of course, female genital mutilation and ages of consent are topics that require our careful attention. In the case of former, the reality is that women are often those that insist on the practice because of ways that gender and political economy regimes together make it a necessary rite of womanhood. In fact, critical thinkers have long argued that this practice has more to do with the lack of economic opportunity for women, the imperative to marry, and the hardening and modernization of tradition in response to colonial and neocolonial interventions (including rights frameworks) than some irrational and razor crazed “hatred.” The same insight could be extended to the question of ages of consent. A reductive framework of hatred makes these topics even more difficult to critically think about and work on.
Many writers and activists have called El Tahawy to account for erasing women’s histories. For Arabs, like all peoples, have histories that one must engage, as Lila Abu-Lughod reminds us, in order to understand the “forms of lives we find around the world.” Critics have pointed to the long history of the Egyptian women’s movement and that formative moment in 1923 when Huda Sha‘rawi took off her face veil at the Ramses train station. This is a useful point to revisit, if only to reflect on why the liberalism that Sha‘rawi and her cohorts fought for—men and women—drastically and resoundingly failed. One reason, and there are many, was that liberalism resonated with only a small elite. As Hanan Kholoussy points out, women under domestic confinement who like Sha‘rawi were expected to don the face veil made up only two percent of Egypt’s five million females at the end of the nineteenth century.
One would have to also critically and historically engage how women’s movements have been implicated in the policies and longevity of authoritarianism. After all, the two countries where women enjoyed the broadest scope of personal status law were Tunisia and Egypt, before the recent revolutions. Indeed, of all the countries of the Arab world, it was only in Tunisia and Egypt that a woman could pass her citizenship on to her children if she was married to a foreigner. (In Egypt there was a small qualification for women married to that other other, the Palestinian; post-revolutionary Egypt has, at least in law if not in practice, done away with this exception).
How can we account for these legal achievements under authoritarian regimes? We could turn to the source of El Tahawy’s inspiration: Fareed Zakaria’s “Why They Hate Us: The Politics of Rage.” There, Zakaria’s muddled logic counsels: “we have to help moderate Arab states, but on the condition that they embrace moderation.” As Mahmood Mamdani and Lila Abu-Lughod often write, moderate Islam has often been produced on the wings of women's and minority rights.
We can also look to the experiences of feminists and women’s activists. Rema Hammami and Eileen Kuttab have shown that in the Palestinian context, the women’s movement lacked a coherent strategy linking gender equality to democracy. The women’s movement thus appeared to be sponsored by the Palestinian Authority; its fate became dependent on that of the political system. In 1999, Hammami and Kuttab warned:
Examples are myriad—eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union saw massive attacks on women’s rights issues after the fall of communist regimes because they came to be associated with other undemocratic and unpopular regime policies. Turkey, Algeria, Egypt are situations where you have small women’s movements whose popular legitimacy is lost because over time they have been seen as linked to or sponsored by authoritarian secular regimes.Is it liberalism then that will fight off the misogyny of authoritarianism? Is the much-feared Islamist summer the real enemy here? And if so, how do we explain that it is women just as much as men, as Shadi Hamid has noted, who have gone to the ballot box and voted Islamists into power?
El Tahawy’s presumes that she is starting a conversation. We respectfully invite El Tahawy to join the conversation among women and men in Tahrir and outside of it. After all, the shameful and state-sanctioned sexual violence of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces’ “virginity tests” did not take place in silence. They happened a day after International Women’s Day when women claimed Tahrir as a space of gender equality and liberation. The “virginity tests” did not meet silence either, as El Tahawy herself points out. Samira Ibrahim continues her fight; her following and her courage are formidable.
The battle against misogyny does not follow a “men hate women” formula. It cannot be reduced to a generic battle of the sexes spiced with a dose of Islam and culture. It cannot be extracted from the political and economic threads that, together with patriarchy, produce the uneven terrain that men and women together navigate. It is these lessons that one would have to engage before meting out an indictment about the politics of sex, much less envisioning a future of these politics. There is no one answer because there is no single culprit, no single “culture” or “hatred” that we can root out and replace with “tolerance” or “love.” Similarly, the absence of a sustained and critical attention to sex and gender cannot be solved, syllabus style, by a separate glossy special “Sex Issue,” the content and form of which reproduce what it purports to critique.
Did you know that there are actually different significances and ways of celebrating the festival in different parts of India?
Also known as the Festival of Lights, Diwali, or Deepavali is celebrated
by Hindus across the world to mark the triumph of good over evil. While
lighting oil lamps and bursting firecrackers are the norm during this
occasion, did you know that there are actually different significances
and ways of celebrating the festival in different parts of India?
It
is a great time for culture-hungry travellers to travel around India
during this auspicious time – with communities from North to South India
celebrating Deepavali in different ways. The vastness and diversity of
India and the richness of its history truly come to life during this
sacred festival.
Get ready to eat, pray, love as Hotels.com sheds some light on the different ways this festival is celebrated in our country.
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
While Deepavali
commemorates Lord Rama’s homecoming in the North, during this festival
Hindus in the South pay homage to Lord Krishna’s defeat of the demon
Naraka, a powerful king of Assam who controlled all the kingdoms on
earth and imprisoned thousands of people. This day was henceforth known
as NarakaChaturdashi – the first day of Deepavali and the beginning of
four days of festivities in South India.
With its rich history as
the capital of Andhra Pradesh, the oldest state in India, Hyderabad
celebrates Deepavali with much pomp and splendour. In commemoration of
the victory of good over evil, the local community makes effigies of the
infamous demon Nakara and burns them on the outskirts of the city.
Travellers to the Silicon Valley of India can expect to see lots of
lights, fireworks and traditional Hindu rituals. Better yet, why not
immerse yourself in a time-honoured South Indian Diwali celebration by
lighting some diyas yourself and sharing some traditional sweets with
the locals?
Where to stay: Get a breather from the full-day
Deepavali celebrations with the locals at the luxurious The Park
Hyderabad, a contemporary hotel boasting a façade reminiscent of the
Nizam’s legendary jewellery collection. Inspired by the Jalis of ancient
Indian palaces, this five-star hotel offers guests the opportunity to
live like royalty, if only for a night, for a truly inspired and
relaxing vacation. Rooms start from Rs. 5,286 a night on Hotels.com.
Haridwar, Uttarakhand
Deepavali, or
Diwali in North India is believed to be the time when Lord Rama, an
incarnation of the God Vishnu, defeated and killed the evil King Ravana,
returning to his home after fourteen years in exile according to the
great Hindu epic ‘Ramayana’. Lord Rama’s homecoming was celebrated with
lights, fireworks and the bursting of crackers, a tradition that is
continued to this day in many northern Indian states.
For
travellers looking to experience a traditional Diwali celebration, there
is no other place like Haridwar in Uttarakhand in northern India, home
to a fascinating bevy of sadhus (holy men), pundits (Hindu priests),
pilgrims, guides, and beggars. Considered one of the seven holiest
places in India and one of the oldest cities in the subcontinent,
Haridwar is drenched in the rich aromas of incense sticks during Diwali
as devotees make offerings to their gods. Diyas (clay lamps) and flowers
adorn the temples and the River Ganges comes to life as priests from
the temples lead the local community in a worship procession, chanting
ancient Sanskrit prayers and floating the diyas down the river in a
devotional ritual to Maa Ganga, goddess of the most holy river in India.
Where
to stay: Located near the sacred Har-ki-PauriGhat (steps leading down
to the river), which is lit up with diyas and adorned with flowers
during Diwali, the Haveli Hari Ganga provides travellers with a great
base for exploring this important pilgrimage city. The3-star hotel is
just minutes away from the popular Mansa Devi Temple and enables guests
to easily take in historical sights and immerse themselves in
traditional Diwali celebrations at the same time. Rooms start from Rs,
5,517 a night on Hotels.com.
Amritsar, Punjab
As
the spiritual home of Sikhism, the city of Amritsar in the northwestern
state of Punjab is the epicentre for the celebration of BandiChhorh
Divas, a Sikh festival that coincides with the third day of Diwali.
Known as the Day of Liberation in English, the festival celebrates the
release of Guru HargobindJi and 52 princes in 1619. The Guru’s
subsequent arrival in Amritsar several days later in the midst of Diwali
celebrations has since associated his liberation with the Festival of
Lights, and hundreds of years later, this momentous occasion is still
commemorated with thousands of candles and lamps, literally lighting up
the whole city.
Travellers will be hard pressed to find a
better-lit city than Amritsar during Diwali, in particular the Sri
Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple), a Sikh Gurdwara surrounded by a large
lake. The temple is a sight to behold during Diwali, as the entire
building is literally set aglow by the lights on and around it. Devotees
set oil lamps and candles floating in the water surrounding it and
rounding off the celebrations with a spectacular fireworks display and
endless rounds of bursting firecrackers.
Where to stay: Located
less than 100 metres the Golden Temple, the Hotel CJ International is
your best bet for a front row view of the Diwali extravaganza in
Amritsar. Other nearby points of interest include the Jallianwala Bagh
public garden, home to the memorial that commemorates the massacre of
more than 1,500 peaceful celebrators on the Punjabi New Year in 1919, as
well as the Durgiana Temple, also known as the Silver Temple for its
carved silver doors. Rooms start from Rs. 1,672 a night on Hotels.com.
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Travellers
looking for something different to the North should head to Mumbai in
the state of Maharashtra, where Diwali celebrations typically last for
four days.Comprising rituals that honour the bond between mother and
child, husbands and wives as well as brothers and sisters, Diwali
celebrations in Mumbai tend to carry a more sacred and holy aura to it
compared to the North.
Lucky enough to be in Mumbai during
Diwali? If you don’t mind the crowds, head to the colourfully decorated
markets and shops, where you can find Indian handicrafts, jewellery and
souvenirs at fabulous festival discounts. Step into a sweetshop and
sample various Indian sweets, or simply admire the houses decorated with
Rangolis – colourful designs drawn on the entrances with powder. At
night, take part in the celebrations by lighting a diya and try your
hand at bursting crackers, or simply sit back and enjoy the atmosphere
as the entire city lights up.
Where to stay: One of the most
fashionable places for Diwali celebrations in Mumbai is Marine Drive, a
3km long boulevard along the coast that’s also known as the Queen’s
Necklace for the street lamps that resemble a string of pearls at night.
Just a stone’s throw away is the Intercontinental Marine Drive Mumbai,
the perfect base that not only provides travellers respite from the
bustling city but also keeps you close to the action. Rooms start from
Rs. 10,641 per night on Hotels.com.
Gallery
-
In Treta Yuga, it is believed that Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana arrived into Telengana from Dandakaranya (present day southern Chattisgarh... -
12th Padmashali Mela @ Naren Garden, Miyapur on Sunday, Date 25-12-2011 -
In the Medak town, is the famous Cathedral ouilt with love and crafted to perfection. As the legend goes this church was born out of a... -
The Adilabad district was named after the ruler of Bijapur Sultanate , Ali Adil Shah I . History The district was for l...
Popular Post
