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Pink interview: 'To play a molested victim was difficult'

'Doing a biopic on Irom Sharmila is too big a responsibility. I have to analyse a lot of other things before I take that up. I don't want to face the backlash it will get if I do that role. This is the best time to be an actor.' Taapsee Pannu up, close and personal.













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When Deepika thought Ranveer was 'hot'

'Deepika had seen some Simmba rushes.''She doesn't react much to anything in life.''But when the screen went off, she looked at me and said "hot lag raha hai".'




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PIX: Is Deepika hiding a secret?

She's just thrilled to have touched down at Cannes.




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Pix: Sonam flirts with purple and red at Cannes!

Which outfit suited her best? Let us know.




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PIX: Malaika-Arjun's love story

Pix from Malaika and Arjun's New York holiday.





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PIX: Shah Rukh, Deepika, Ranbir party with Karan

Karan Johar had a house party on Friday and Saturday.




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PIX: Shilpa Shetty-Raj Kundra's Ganpati visarjan

After welcoming Lord Ganesha with much fanfare, it was time for Shilpa Shetty and her family to say adieu.




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PIX: Step inside Boman Irani's house

The third edition of Asian Paints' Where the Heart Is brings you glimpses of Boman's home.






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PIX: Nora Fatehi parties with Sidharth, Riteish

Happy Birthday, Milap!




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Video: Deepika-Ranveer celebrate first anniversary

Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh celebrated their first wedding anniversary by offering prayers at the Venkateswara temple located at the hill town of Tirumala, near Tirupati.









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PIX: Aamir-Kiran at Javed Akhtar's birthday bash

Javed Akhtar's 75th birthday celebrations started early with the unveiling of an exhibition of photographs from his life. His family also threw a retro-themed party for him at their home, and invited his friends over.




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PIX: Shraddha, Varun watch Street Dancer 3D

Family members came out in support of Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor's new film together, Street Dancer 3D, at its special screening in Mumbai. It has been directed by Remo D'Souza.





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Video: Watch Taapsee, Deepika at an awards show

Karan Johar's Kalank may have tanked at the box office but it was a winner at the 12th Mirchi Music Awards, where it won the top awards.




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Jumping with God into Children’s Ministries

Ministering to children as the fully spiritually aware, intuitive thinkers they are.

Much can happen when we learn to equip and empower the children among us. For one woman in ministry, it’s not so much about children learning from grown-ups, but it’s about grown-ups learning from children. Samantha Trimble, Director of Children’s Ministry at The Creek Covenant Church in Walnut Creek, California is a denominational coach for the Evangelical Covenant Church and ambassador for Faith@Home Ministries International. She has experienced firsthand the benefit of approaching each member of the body of Christ as valuable and vital.

“Children are fresh eyes and hearts,” she states in an interview. “They are born fully capable and spiritually aware, but unsullied by our own ideas of how things ‘should’ or ‘must’ be done. They are intuitive thinkers that can make connections that we linearly-thinking grown-ups would not.”

Trimble equates the capability of children to having “lantern-like focus,” a concept coined by U.C. Berkeley developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik. Soaking in everything of the world around them (seemingly all at once), young minds learn to experiment with how things connect. This is in direct opposition to adults who, with their tendency to exhibit “flashlight focus,” oftentimes miss what kids naturally see because they fixate on a single spot.

I am one of those guilty of fixating on a single spot, but it’s something Trimble never seems to have succumbed to—which made me all the more eager to hear the rest of her story. After all, who doesn’t want to glean a little bit of a childlike, lantern-like focus?

Trimble met Jesus when she was seven years old. Working out her faith in playground friendships ...

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