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Indian South African writer and author Shubnum Khan has drawn the ire of the Indian government with a tweet showing support for Jammu & Kashmir.

Early Monday morning, Aabid, a 27-year-old journalist living in Delhi, received a call from his father who lives in Kashmir.

It has tonal problems, swinging between commonplace-ness and flat-out filmi-ness, because it is trying to appeal to many constituencies at the same time.

Share PadMan makers have begun a period challenge to break taboos about menstruation. Bollywood celebrities have been roped in for the PadMan challenge. Beginning with the man who brought about a revolution in rural India, A Muruganantham, it was Twinkle Khanna’s turn to challenge Aamir Khan, Shabana Azmi and businessman, Harsh Goenka. Thank you @mrsfunnybones Yes, that’s a Pad in my hand & there's nothing to be ashamed about. It's natural! Period. #PadManChallenge. Copy, Paste this & Challenge your friends to take a photo with a Pad. Here I am Challenging @SrBachchan , @iamsrk & @BeingSalmanKhan pic.twitter.com/lY7DEevDmD — Aamir Khan (@aamir_khan) February 2, 2018 Many stars have joined the challenge. Take a look: Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt, Swara Bhasker, Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Ayushmann Khurrana, Aditi Rao Hydari, Arjun Kapoor, Dia Mirza, Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte, and Sophie Choudhary all posed with a …

Twinkle Khanna, the producer of Bollywood release PadMan starring her husband Akshay Kumar, spoke at the Oxford Union highlighting the importance of menstrual hygiene to tackle the taboo around periods.

Pad Man releases in cinemas worldwide on the 25th January to inspire all the cape-less heroes amongst us, through Sony Pictures Entertainment, India.

Priests had decked up the presiding deity as “Goddess Kali” (an aggressive form of Durga) and performed the tantric Bhairavi puja secretly at night.

Nearly 5 years after a 23-year-old medical student on her way home from a movie was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in Delhi, justice has been served.