It promulgated a strict rule aiming at regulating reality shows, criticizing some of them as so vulgar that they hurt the reputation of media.

I went back to South Carolina after some 15 years amid the alien corn at the tail end of the 1960s, with the reckless condescension of that era thinking I would save my people.

But many Indians are firm believers, as the increasingly eccentric spellings of film titles and movie stars names confirm. One of India s finest actors, Irfan Khan, suddenly re baptized himself Irrfan, a change that many swear prefigured the transformation of his career.