Tehran, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) A top Iranian military official has said that Iran’s armed forces are ready for any form of cooperation with Pakistan in the “all-out fight” against terrorism. Chairman of the Chiefs of…
New Delhi, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) If India ever had a star, it was Dev Anand. He was the mould in which subsequent generations of stars were cast. Dev Anand was born Dharamdev on September 26,…
New Delhi, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) In his youth, he had gone from his home in Gurdaspur to Amritsar to get medicines for his ailing mother. To quench his thirst, he ordered a glass of sugarcane…
Lahore, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Dev Anand was forever on our TV screens. My mother and aunts were huge fans. But my mother also had bundles of Filmfare magazines, and large black discs of gramophones with…
New Delhi, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Three-fourth of his 88-year-long life was spent in acting and of these, six and a half decades, over half, had Dev Anand playing the lead (romantic) role, even as his…
New Delhi, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Exhilaration and disbelief were the two emotions that swept through me when Dev Saab accepted my invitation to a dinner together. When I called from my little corner at the…
New Delhi, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) One evening in Bombay in 1954, almost all the taxis in the city seemed parked outside a prominent cinema on a busy thoroughfare with their drivers, led by the chairman…
New Delhi, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Like the man himself, on and off the screen, the music of Dev Anand’s films was fashionably flamboyant, popular with the people, and remains evergreen. It also left a salutary…