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| The Year in Pictures | ||||||
| A kaleidoscope that captures the pains and pleasures of 2003 | ||||||
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 The face of the Best Bakery case was also the face of perseverance as Zaheera Sheikh's fight for justice dismembered the Gujarat Government's credibility. The June 27 acquittal of the accused in the murder of her family led to a nationwide uproar over this "miscarriage of justice". An appeal seeking retrial is up for hearing in the state high court. | ||||||
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| With the BJP pulling the rug from under her feet in August and several corruption cases against her, including the Taj Corridor scam, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati could not have got more cake in the face. If that sounds like a jamboree, try this. The Nashik Kumbh mela in July had it all-the holy mass, including dreadlocked Naga sadhus, the ritual dip, and the swell of fervour that turned out to be life threatening. "I have been framed. Political parties and the media find it unpalatable that a Dalit woman has thrice been chief minister of India's most crucial state." Mayawati, BSP chief | ||||||
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The December assembly polls saw three women sweeping the Hindi heartland-Uma Bharati in Madhya Pradesh, Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan and Sheila Dikshit in Delhi. It also saw the coming of age of women voters who largely decided the results and voted for governance, not gimmickry.
When Pandit Ravi Shankar's lesser known daughter collected five Grammys for her album Come Away With Me in February and became the pop world's newest sensation, the media screamed about her not acknowledging the sitar maestro's genes; the absentee father too willingly stood up to claim her as his own. As for Norah Jones, she would rather have let her music do the talking. That was until Dev Anand decided he had "a great international subject" for a movie.
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