Oprah Winfrey said Namaste India!

Namaste India! Wearing a Sabyasachi Mukherjee salwar kameez, Oprah had her audience spellbound.

Talk show queen Winfrey dazzles festival audience - and promises to make a return to India.

Oprah, looking resplendent in a Sabyasachi Mukherjee-designed embroidered salwar-kameez, made one memorable statement.

When I first came to India, I was overwhelmed by the chaos, the traffic and people who never stopped for red lights, by men riding donkeys, women wearing helmets with saris and oxen-drawn carts laden with steel,' Oprah said, looking as bright and animated as ever.

'It made my head spin - I felt like I was part of a video game,' continued Oprah, and the statement got instantly tweeted.

'But I realised there's a method to the madness - there's a karmic calmness within the millions of people that keeps them moving along a path. Being in India has expanded my idea of humanity,' she said.

talk show diva left no one in doubt she was in love with India. And she promised to be back.

'You think you can understand India through its clichés, but you can't - you have to come back again,' said Oprah.

Death is contagious and no one wants to be reminded of this - across the world; but this has to change,' Oprah said, recounting her visit to an ashram of widows.

She also lived with a slum child, 11-year-old Anchal, and her five-member family in a Mumbai chawl.

'At the end of the stay, I wanted to bring her home with me,' Oprah said, and joked: 'My partner is always worried that he's going to find me at the airport with another girl child!'

Oprah has adopted two children. When she mentioned her partner, Dutt asked why she hadn't married Stedman Graham, her partner since 1986.

Oprah said: 'I am not the marrying kind. I know that in a country like India where women have arranged marriages that turn into love it may seem like a mystery as to why. But if we were married, by now we would be divorced."'

With this she broke into the laughter that has lit up television screens across the world.


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Himesh Vs Atif Aslam

Mumbai, Jan 15: Pakistan's private television channel Geo TV will soon present a musical reality show, which in effect whill be a contst between Indian and Pakistani singers.

Ten umpcoming singers in the Indian team will be led by Himesh Reshamiyya, while the Pakistani team will be led by Atif Aslam.

Shooting of the musical competition will soon start in Dubai. Auditions are in process in India and shortly will start in Pakistan, the entertainment channel said.

The Pakistani channel in collaboration with Sahara TV will telecast this musical contest.

Atif Aslam is a well known pop singer and film actor with a lead role in the film Bol. He is widely recognised in South Asia and has given several hit songs such as Aadat, Woh Lamhe, Tere Bin, Bakhuda Tumhi Ho, Pehli Nazar Mein, Tera Hone Laga Hoon, Tu Jaane Na, Tere Liye and many more.

Himesh Reshamiyya had his first success as a music director of the 2003 film, “Tere Naam”. After which he composed music for the film, “Aashiq Banaya Aapne”, as a singer, and songs like Tera Suroor, Zara Jhoom Jhoom and Tanhaiyan went on to become mega hits. Already famous for his voice he started his acting career with his debut film, “Aap Kaa Surroor - The Real Love Story”

Judges of this competition include three famous celebrities, Runa Laila, from Bangladesh, Asha Bhosle, from India and Abida Parveen from Pakistan.

Act or we block you Like china, HC Warns Facebook, Google

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to quash a criminal complaint against Google and Facebook, related to inflammatory images of some Gods and Goddesses, warning websites to comply and devise a mechanism to control objectionable content.
"If a contraband is found in your house, it your liability to take action against it," Justice Suresh Cait told lawyers from Facebook India and Google India. "Like China, we can block all such websites (who don't comply). But let us not go to that situation," he said in a packed courtroom.
"At present it's obscene images of Gods and Goddesses, tomorrow it can be an image of someone in your family posted online. There has to be some control," he told lawyers of Google India and Facebook India.
The Hon'ble Judge Suresh Cait refused to accept Google India's argument that it is just a distributor of Google Inc's Adwords program. He added that liability of content falls on it as it is a 'beneficiary' and does business in India.
Both companies cited exemption from liability and said that they don't control or administer the content on the websites but are 100% subsidiaries of the parent companies based in the US.
"We can't even tell Google Inc, to upload or not upload a particular article. Google India is a completely different legal entity from Google Inc, which controls the platform," Senior Lawyer Mukul Rohatgi representing Google India told the court.
Google and Facebook differed on whether the images and content cited was 'obscene and objectionable'. Lawyers for Facebook India did not agree some images of Gods and Goddesses were obscene, and in the Judge's words even suggested them to be 'informative'.
Google India agreed they were obscene, but expressed inability to install a wholesale filter to remove such content. "There are billions of pieces of content being uploaded online. It is simply not practical," a Google lawyer told the Court.
After the Judge refused to stay proceedings or quash the criminal complaint, lawyers from Google India suggested that if the complainant cited specifically, it could request Google Inc, to remove the 'objectionable' weblinks from its websites.
Facebook and Google shifted the onus of monitoring obscene imagery online on to Internet Service Providers in India such as Bharti Airtel, BSNL and Reliance, saying that under their license conditions they are liable to block it.
Lawyers representing Google India also said that the section 79 of the Indian IT Act has granted protection to websites (like social networks) and tinkering with content would remove the protection they have been granted.
Cyber law expert Pavan Duggal differs. "Under section 79, the websites are duty bound to take suo moto action and remove such content if they obtain its knowledge. Thus websites can't go scot-free if they obtain such knowledge," Duggal adds. The Indian IT Act applies to any entity in the world whose services impact a computer system in India, Duggal adds.