"Akon’s concert: Audience on song"
Delhi has had its fair share of fiascos whereas concerts are concerned. Bryan Adam's concert in February getting cancelled upset a number of Delhiites. What made up last week was pop star Akon who enthralled the audience on his 38th birthday in Gurgaon. True to Salman Khan's style, this rapper dressed in all black stripped off his shirt and jumped into the crowd asking the boys to do the same.
Akon and the crowd had a blast as they cut a birthday cake on stage for him and he fed some of the audiences who were standing close to him. The crowd grooved to hit songs like "Smack that" and "Party Animal". The star was full of gimmicks which enthralled some while some were put off by the singer. Akon was not accustomed to the Delhi heat so he splashed dozens of bottles of water to cool himself and his fans. Rosina, his wife wore a lehenga choli proving she loved India and that they would be back for a holiday soon.
It was clearly a special night for the Akons as he wanted to celebrate his birthday with the crowds and he requested that the VIP stands be open for all audience who could not afford to buy the tickets. There were VIPs in the crowd; there were Bollywood stars and Akon's music and stage antics left them spellbound.
Actor Suniel Shetty's charity will benefit from this event as some proceeds will go to it.
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"Women rule the roost"
Women clearly are the flavour of the day. A lady speaker, United Progressive Alliance chairperson and hopefully the Women Reservation Bill will be passed in Parliament soon to make sure that you will see more honest, hardworking and pretty women sitting in Parliament.
We have various organizations in Delhi today which have the Women Achievers awards.
Last week Kumari Selja gave out Achievers Awards which was hosted by young FICCI ladies' organization. Rani Mukherjee was clearly the centre of attraction there and she got the award for excellence in cinema.
The others who got the award were Promila Bahri and Ranjana Aggarwal. This hall was full of rich designer sari-clad wives of influential and wealthy industrialists, but they were in no mood to discuss the designer stuff. They were all busy talking about supporting NGOs. Surinder Kaur, the captain of Indian women hockey team, asked for more recognition of women in sports.
There were lots of cheers for the winners who excelled in their chosen filed of work.
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"Six dummy candidates!"
Have not heard of anything so funny or confusing! With this new tactic, we know the Congress is getting smarter day by day. It has fielded six dummy candidates with the same name for the by-election to the Kadapa Lok Sabha seat in Andhra. Six candidates with the name "Jaganmohan Reddy" have filed their nominations as independents.
And in the same way, three women candidates with the same name of Jagan's mother Y.Vijayalakshmi filed their nominations as independents. Vijayalakshmi is contesting on behalf of the YSR Congress party. A few more "Jagmohan Reddys" and "Vijayalakshmis" are expected to file the nominations. As the Election Commission has not recognized Jagan's party yet, the two are independents. So to confuse the public, the Congress has fielded half a dozen candidates with the same name.
Both will contest the polls on different election symbols. It is clearly a Congress conspiracy to defeat the mother and son by hook or crook, or at least reduce the margin of his victory.
But Jagan has invested in strong campaigners to educate the voters about the election symbol which is still to be allotted.
Both Jagan and Vijayalakshmi have applied for "cot" or "candle" as election symbols.
Jagan's declaration that assets have risen from lakhs to Rs 365 crore, besides the Rs 41.33 crore in the name of his wife Bharati, has given the Congress enough to attack him with.
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