Friday, November 14, 2008

Heavenly Body! Xpose

Titian’s Venus and Homer’s Helen, metaphors each, for a bewitching beauty that could enchant gods and saints into sinful seductions. But even they would wither and burn in shame and envy if they were to but share daylight with the exquisite grace of the diva divine – Monica ‘ummm’ Belluci. Nature kissed her on the mouth and left the world green and gasping. As she blossomed, everything male in sight – either in thought or deed – just dropped and fell, if only to kiss the ground she walks upon! She’s spun a spell on the men and all that women can do is get intensely infuriated! No mortal could possibly possess such perfection, and even if they are born with such flawless features, time must take its toll, right? Wrong! At 42, the lady who says, “I believe that time destroys everything” looks not a day older than Aphrodite, as she bathed under the fountain of eternal youth. And she doesn’t diet and exercise to look her gorgeous self either, “I eat everything. I’m not fixated with getting skinny, I respect the natural” says Monica. She’s got the brains to compliment her lissome legs too; after all she was studying law before her part-time career took over her life!

Monica Bellucci isn’t just another pretty face, for she’s proved over and over that she can woo serious moviegoers as well, starting out with L’Appartement (1996) that won a nomination for the French equivalent of an Oscar. In her co-star of L’Appartement, Vincent Cassel, she discovered her future husband, with whom by the way she doesn’t share an apartment, so as to keep things from getting boring! English speaking audiences got a good look at the lady in Malèna (2000), a movie packed with some steaming hot scenes between Monica and a teenage boy. Monica has no qualms in appearing on-screen in her birthday suit, and has been caught saying, “I have shown my body because I do not object to nudity on-screen. That offends some people, I know, but not me.” More fame pursued her as she moved on to play Persephone in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions following which she portrayed Mary Magdelene in Mel Gibson’s labour of love, The Passion of the Christ. She’d even tried for the role of the Bond Girl but was rejected, much to the chagrin of Pierce Brosnan who holds that “Monica Bellucci is a ravishing beauty - a gorgeous, gorgeous woman”! Read More..

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

It will be as hung, as unstable and as prone to rabid horse trading as the current dispensation.

Amidst this Singh is King hype, not many are paying attention to what the next Lok Sabha will lookDr. Manmohan Singh like. If you are Third Front romantic, you might believe that Prakash Karat and fellow comrades will forge an unbeatable strategic alliance with Mayawati. If you love saffron, you think that despite the setback of as many as 10 MPs deserting the party during the crucial vote, the BJP and the NDA will leverage inflation and anti-incumbency to storm back to power. If you still nurse dreams of Rahul Gandhi leading the nation one day, you are confident that the Indian voter will go back to the Nehru-Gandhi family in a decisive way.

Lets take the Third Front first. Apart from the Left, the Mayawati-led BSP and just maybe Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP, no other constituent can hope to reach double digits. The only way the Left will go from its current tally of 59 seats is way, way below in the next elections. Even die hard supporters of Mayawati won’t give the BSP more than 50 seats. Together, the two will win less than 100 seats. The entire Third Front will be lucky to win even 150 seats. The only way they can form the next government is if either the Congress or the BJP support a tottering, unstable regime a la the Deve Gowda and Gujral years.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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