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It was the first Oscars that I have ever watched. Forget it. It was the first Oscars that India itself was watching so closely. I say this with brazen alacrity, though some might question my generalisation of the experience to the whole country. But these are only the purists, who we wave aside with the testy brusqueness of a people overjoyed at finally grabbing the attention of the world. With A.R. Rahman and 'Slumdog Millionaire's' success at the Academy Awards this year, the world is suddenly looking East. Not to forget the success too of documentary 'Smile Pinki' based on the story of Pinki Kumari, an Indian village girl whose cleft lip had made her a social outcast. And also, we cannot forget - for the sake of God's Own Country itself - to make special mention of the triumph of Resul Pookutty, who got the Academy Award for Best Sound-Mixing for 'Slumdog Millionaire'.

One cannot forget, however, all the unwholesome noises that had been made about 'Slumdog Millionaire' in the run-up to the Academy Awards, even as the movie kept getting one award after the other and became the most-talked-about subject this year since sliced bread. These are people I would like to call the eternal pessimists - the Devil's Advocates, who insist on playing the Devil rather more than the Advocate.

These noises have not ceased to die down even after the movie swept the Oscars. They were the remarks that one might just have expected from such a class of people. Arguments that 'the director was British', 'most of the crew were foreigners', 'the story-line wasn't anything extraordinary - it was very similar to some of our best Bollywood films', 'it is just slum tourism', etc have been floating about for quite some time now. And even after the movie swept the awards, these same naysayers continued to reiterate their view with stoic resolve.

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Whoever briefed Michelle Obama on the things one does and doesn't do with one's hands when one meets the Queen must be wondering what went wrong.

Within minutes of their first encounter at Buckingham Palace yesterday, America's first lady broke royal protocol by doing the unthinkable: she gave the Queen a hug. The monarch, for her part, responded with equally flagrant disregard for convention by returning the gesture.

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