Jennifer Lopez: Tops list of world’s most great celebritie

May 16
 Jennifer Lopez dethroned Lady Gaga as the world’s most powerful celebrity, according to a list published Wednesday by Forbes magazine in which the queen of US television Oprah Winfrey came in in second place.
The singer of numbers such as “Let’s Get Loud” and “Love Don’t Cost A Thing” has hurtled upwards from the No. 50 slot she occupied last year in the magazine’s ranking of the 100 most influential movie, TV, music and sports stars.

New Indian Novels: Mirror modern man-woman relationships

New Delhi, Contemporary Indian popular fiction that narrates ‘desi’ cosmopolitan stories has been mirroring the changing man-woman relationship in a more open and accepting urban India, a leading literary agent says.
Even 10 years ago, romantic novels spun stories about a man and one woman, whose sacrosanct monogamous love twisted and turned its way to the altar after epic struggles. Brazen romantic love as a subject of mass fiction was considered audacious in the middle-class conservatism of the 1970s-1980s.