Allegedly, Reportedly, Apparently

The Camera Phone Row A Delhi schoolboy catches a girl in the act. A Mumbai newspaper publishes stills of two film stars smooching in a cafe. In Chennai, images of an actress taking a shower do the rounds. And a full-blown row on privacy is on.

The Kaizad Gustad Row Kaizad Gustad, author of No Fixed Address, found one for some time in a Mumbai jail when he was charged with hushing up the accidental death of colleague Nadia Khan while shooting Mumbai Central illegally on a railway track.

The Anupam Kher Row The UPA government removed Anupam Kher as Censor Board chief for his alleged RSS connections. Kher sues CPI(M)’s Harkishen Singh Surjeet.

The Amisha Patel Row It was a bad (or maybe good) year to be filmi parents. Bollywood star Amisha Patel and Malayalam actress Meera Jasmine accused their parents of misappropriating their earnings.

The Bachchan-Gandhi Row With Sonia Gandhi seizing the levers of power in Delhi, friends of the Samajwadi Party, including Amitabh (and Jaya) Bachchan, found the going tough. And the country’s premier political and filmi families soon got into a "raja-rank" spat over loyalty.

The Shibu Soren Row Manmohan’s image took a beating when coalition politics forced him to induct ‘tainted’ MPs Shibu Soren (JMM) and Md Taslimuddin (RJD) as ministers, providing the opposition with ammo against the government in Parliament and outside.

The Mayawati Row With BSP founder Kanshi Ram extremely ill, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati found herself facing the wrath of his family members, who took her to court for making him a "prisoner" and "appropriating" his money.

The Kerala Sex Row In the end, even CM Oommen Chandy wasn’t spared. The Mallu media, so warped with the spate of sexploitation cases—Vithura, Kiliroor, ice-cream parlour et al—got news of Chandy ‘cavorting’ in a train. It transpired the woman was his wife.

The BCCI Row During a Supreme Court hearing of the TV rights row, BCCIclaimedSachin, Saurav & co represented the board, a conglomeration of clubs, and not the country that is India.

The Secularism Row Dalrymple sparred with SirVidia. FarrukhDhondy and Tarun Vijay took onDalrymple. Ashis Nandy slugged it out with Kuldip Nayar. Sanjay Subrahmanyam hit out at Nandy. Mark Tully joined in. And in between RamGuha, SwapanDasgupta, AmitavaKumar and others added to the clamour. Meanwhile, things would have beenquite banalwithout Shashi Deshpande's take on VSN's latest novel.  

The Reality TV Row When village girl Gudiya’s first husband, who was supposed to have died in Kargil, reappeared, she was expecting her second husband’s baby Zee News thought it fit to solve this knotty problem by organising its own panchayat meeting, live on TV.

The Madhur Bhandarkar Row Wannabe-starlet Preeti Jain alleged she was sexually exploited by Madhur Bhandarkar, who, of course, denied it. The latter’s film Chandni Bar is about exploitation of bar girls.

The Parthiv Wedding Row Sahara TV decided to expose how the Hindu Marriage Act could be abused by registering a fake wedding between cricketer Parthiv Patel, who is under the legal age for marriage, with a fictitious girl. Patel wasn’t amused.