In this file photo dated Aug 25, 1999, is seen then Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit with former finance minister Manmohan Singh and thespian Dilip Kumar during Singh's campaign...
Look sharply, then look again, for this is grey eminence at its ripest. While most of his contemporaries have dropped away, Dilip Kumar, 95, inspires with mere presence. Shahrukhâ...
(clockwise from top left) Mumtaz, Rekha, Meena Kumari, Dilip Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, Waheeda Rehman and Dev Anand, Madhubala, Raj Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan
Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala in Madhumati
Madhubala and Dilip Kumar as Anarkali and Salim in K. Asif’s movie
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh presents Padma Vibhushan to Bollywood legend Dilip Kumar along with Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, Saira Banu, Governor C Vidhyasagar Rao and A...
Veteran actor Dilip Kumar with his wife Saira Banu going out for a drive on the eve of his birth anniversary in Mumbai on Thursday night.
Veteran actor Dilip Kumar with his wife Saira Banu going out for a drive on the eve of his birth anniversary in Mumbai on Thursday night.
Let The Doves Gather We don't know if the great Dilip Kumar is a deep reader of statecraft. But it wasn't going to matter to former Pakistan foreign minister KhuÂrÂÂshid Mah...
File photos of BJP veteran LK Advani, senior SAD leader Parkash Singh Badal, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and legendary actor Dilip Kumar who will be conferred upon the pres...
Legendary actor Dilip Kumar's 92nd birthday is celebrated at the Press Club in Peshawar.
Dilip Kumar gets a kiss from his wife Saira Banu after being discharged from Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai
Legendary actor Dilip Kumar with his wife actress Saira Banu after being discharged from the Lilavati Hospital, in Mumbai. Kumar who turned 92 was admitted to hospital for a chest ...
@TheDilipKumar posted a photo on Twitter and wrote: Spent a lovely evening in our Pali Hill home-garden with Saira.
Veteran Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar with Salman Khan during the wedding reception of Arpita Khan in Mumbai on Friday night 21 Nov. 2014.
Bollywood veteran actor Dilip Kumar with wife Saira Banu, Salim Khan and Sohail Khan during the wedding reception of Arpita Khan and Aayush Sharma in Mumbai on Friday night 21 Nov....
Bollywood veteran actor Dilip Kumar with wife Saira, Salim Khan and Sohail during the wedding reception of Arpita Khan and Aayush Sharma in Mumbai on Friday night 21 Nov. 2014.
Dharmendra and Dilip Kumar during the launch of the latter's autobiography The Substance and The Shadow in Mumbai.
Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan and Dilip Kumar during the launch the latter's autobiography The Substance and The Shadow in Mumbai.
Javed Akhtar, Saira Banu, Aamir Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra during the launch of veteran actor Dilip Kumar's autobiography in Mumbai.
Vir Sanghvi in the Hindustan Times:
Few things annoy me as much as the claim often advanced by well-meaning but woolly- headed (and usually Punjabi) liberals to the effect that when it comes to India and Pakistan, "We’re all the same people, yaar."
This may have been true once upon a time. Before 1947, Pakistan was part of undivided India and you could claim that Punjabis from West Punjab (what is now Pakistan) were as Indian as, say, Tamils from Madras.
But time has a way of moving on. And while the gap between our Punjabis (from east Punjab which is now the only Punjab left in India) and our Tamils may actually have narrowed, thanks to improved communications, shared popular culture and greater physical mobility, the gap between Indians and Pakistanis has now widened to the extent that we are no longer the same people in any significant sense.
This was brought home to me most clearly by two major events over the last few weeks.
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Without taking anything away from his broader point, the "fear of attracting religious prejudice" was not really the reason why Yusuf Khan changed his name to Dilip Kumar (and it was not in the "In the early days of independent India" but at least 3-4 years before that -- and the story is better told in Lord Meghnath Desai's biography)
