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A look at Staten Island one year after the storm.

The film is all set to release on the Superstar's birthday.

Here's looking at the film's trailer.

Upcoming singer Antara Mitra shares her R... Rajkumar experience.

Watch the trailer and vote!

The actress will be seen playing a cop in Pradeep Sarkar's new film Mardaani.

Its double bonanza for Rajinikanth fans as his newest film releases on his 64th birthday.

'I told Illaiyaraaja when he had composed music for 786 films that soon there will be 1,000. Today is that day.' The film industry felicitates music composer Illaiyaraaja.

Welcome 2 Karachi will release on May 28.

'People keep asking me where I get so much energy from. But I'm just having fun because people are still offering me good work,' Amitabh Bachchan tells us.

The film is likely to hit the screens on July 6.

Mumbai fans celebrate the release of Rajinikanth's latest film, Kabali.

The discomfort between Bani and Lopa becomes more obvious.

Watch the fun video.

Host Karan Johar gets Farah Khan and Sania Mirza on the couch.

The actress-turned-politician has sung eight bhajans for the album, and even sang live at its laungh.

...At restaurants, airport and gyms...

Here's what a Rajinikanth movie screening looks like.

Aishwaryaa R Dhanush, Rajinikanth's daughter, tells Rediff.com what it is like to have a legendary superstar for a father.

Plus there's Javed Akhtar and Shatrughan Sinha.

'I will pick Bollywood stars to play Indian superheroes.'

The third edition of Asian Paints' Where the Heart Is brings you glimpses of Boman's home.

A special screening of Section 375 was held for film folk in Mumbai.

Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh celebrated their first wedding anniversary by offering prayers at the Venkateswara temple located at the hill town of Tirumala, near Tirupati.

Zoya Akhtar threw a Christmas bash and invited her friends over.

"After this film, Aditya (Roy Kapur) and Disha (Patani) are going to be major stars," Anil Kapoor assured at the trailer launch of his new film, Malang.

Ahead of the film's release, the makers of Chhapaak hosted a special screening for their families and colleagues.

Disha Patani hosted a brunch at an eatery in Bandra, in the north west suburb of Mumbai, on Republic Day for her Malang team.

Whatever the reviews and box office collections may say, the Malang team is in a mood to party.

Kiara Advani invited her friends over to watch a special screening of her Netflix film, Guilty, in Mumbai.

Isha Ambani started the Holi celebrations early and threw a party for her celebrity friends.

When you experience hurt from those who serve beside you

When I was twenty-three, I left the United States for a scary, exciting job as an international campus minister. I was all nerves with my year of seminary, husband of a year, and life packed into five large suitcases. It was an adventure into the unknown, following God’s call to places I’d only visited briefly. I’d speak a different language, learn new customs, and celebrate new government holidays—all in a bid to be a little-Christ to students at a university in Europe.

I returned at twenty-six, an older, wiser, and more broken woman. The years had not been easy or kind to me. My exterior circumstances in Europe had been easy. I was a campus minister on a cosmopolitan campus with students from 130 different countries. I had running water, plenty of delicious restaurants nearby, friends I liked, and a city I’d fallen in love with. But…

And this is a big but…

I hadn’t been emotionally or spiritually supported during our ministry years. I’d been told I was a liar, that I wasn’t trustworthy, that I was needy and demanding, and that I was trouble. The word had been given to me as an identity marker. I wasn’t making trouble; I was the trouble. And for a woman already uncertain about my welcome and position in ministry, that was devastating. It became a toxic environment that sapped me to nothing. I lost weight. I grew gray hair overnight. I withdrew from friends. I developed an unhealthy relationship with chocolate and books.

In short, I showed some of the signs of an abusive relationship.

And it wasn’t the students. No, they were wonderful. It wasn’t my husband either. He was my lifeline. Unfortunately, it was a fellow team member. We’d been friends ...

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Ministering to children as the fully spiritually aware, intuitive thinkers they are.

Much can happen when we learn to equip and empower the children among us. For one woman in ministry, it’s not so much about children learning from grown-ups, but it’s about grown-ups learning from children. Samantha Trimble, Director of Children’s Ministry at The Creek Covenant Church in Walnut Creek, California is a denominational coach for the Evangelical Covenant Church and ambassador for Faith@Home Ministries International. She has experienced firsthand the benefit of approaching each member of the body of Christ as valuable and vital.

“Children are fresh eyes and hearts,” she states in an interview. “They are born fully capable and spiritually aware, but unsullied by our own ideas of how things ‘should’ or ‘must’ be done. They are intuitive thinkers that can make connections that we linearly-thinking grown-ups would not.”

Trimble equates the capability of children to having “lantern-like focus,” a concept coined by U.C. Berkeley developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik. Soaking in everything of the world around them (seemingly all at once), young minds learn to experiment with how things connect. This is in direct opposition to adults who, with their tendency to exhibit “flashlight focus,” oftentimes miss what kids naturally see because they fixate on a single spot.

I am one of those guilty of fixating on a single spot, but it’s something Trimble never seems to have succumbed to—which made me all the more eager to hear the rest of her story. After all, who doesn’t want to glean a little bit of a childlike, lantern-like focus?

Trimble met Jesus when she was seven years old. Working out her faith in playground friendships ...

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The self-described entrepreneur had surprised all by joining Nirav Modi four years ago