Kim kardashian facts

Facts about kim kardashian:

FAMILY LIFE

Kim Kardashian was born in Los Angeles on October 21, 1980 and is the daughter of Kris Jenner and the late attorney Robert Kardashian.

She is the second oldest of four, with older sister Kourtney and younger siblings Khloe and Robert.

HIGH SCHOOL YEARS

During high school, Kim worked at her father’s music marketing firm, Movie Tunes.

ACTING GIG

Kim’s first acting role came in 2006 in the television series “Beyond the Break.

MILLION DOLLAR GAL

According to E!, Kim makes $5.545 million a year.

A TOP MODEL

Kardashian appeared as a guest judge on Cycle 13 of “America’s Next Top Model.”

PLAYBOY

Kim posed nude in the December 2007 issue of Playboy magazine.

 Kim Kardashian has been accused of having plastic surgery for her butt, breasts, eyes and cheeks. She has said that she has tried botox in the past but that she has had no other procedures. In 2008, she even posted a picture of herself as a teenager in a bikini on her website to prove the body she has now has not been altered.

KEEPING FIT

In April 2009, Kardashian released a workout DVD series, “Fit in Your Jeans by Friday,” with trainers Jennifer Galardi and Patrick Goudeau.

SHOE FANATIC

Kim Kardashian is the co-founder and chief fashion stylist for ShoeDazzle.

FASHIONISTA

In the spring of 2010, Kim and her sisters released a clothing line for Bebe.

They also own Dash clothing store.

EX-HUSBAND

In 2000, Kardashian married music producer Damon Thomas. They divorced in 2004.

DANCING SHOES

Kim was partnered with Mark Ballas on season 7 of “Dancing with the Stars,” but was the third contestant voted off.

INSPIRED

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Kim considers singer/actress Jennifer Lopez to be her style icon.

LAWSUIT

Dr. Sanford Siegal, the creator of the Cookie Diet, sued Kardashian, claiming she defamed him on Twitter. According to Siegal, Kardashian tweeted that he was “falsely promoting” that she was on the cookie diet.

1ST LOVE

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Kim Kardashian’s first boyfriend was Tito Jackson’s son, T.J..

shashi tharoor

wow, shashi tharoor reading habit:

The recent furore about the IPL scam gotten me interested in knowing about shashi tharoor. I stopped getting to know the news long time ago for no apparent reason :). So I didn't bother to enquire about him when i first saw him in some newspaper. But recently i got to see his interview called "Conversations with History" that was given at the Unviersity of California. I was amazed at the pace with which he thinks and talks. 

In the interview, he told that 
He finished his schooling in a Boarding School in Mumbai, college at St.Stevens, Masters from ....university(I don't remember), later his Ph.D at the age of 22 from Tufts University. I was like wow! this man is really something. He also told that in one of his schooling years, he resolved to read 365 books a year and he kept that promise. How wonderful!! 

This man thinks twice as fast as we think. And he speaks twice as fast as he thinks. It was a real pleasure just watching him speak. That's it. 

I am getting a very big doubt lately. There must have been a connection between the number of books people read and the speed with which they think. I deduce this from one of my other role models - Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan. Whenever he is asked a question, he takes a minute to respond and the first things that comes out of his mouth is "there are three perspectives or three sides". This means that he processes the question and the answer to it from multiple perspectives in that SINGLE minute. Can you believe it? 

I think all this happens because they have jogged their minds enough to process huge amounts of information in much less time with pinpoint accuracy by means of thinking while reading. In other words, reading bootstraps thinking. 

The issue is not over with that. They also process the answer in their mind in that one minute. So they manipulate the language also with pinpoint accuracy to convey their ideas. Isn't this wonderful? How many of us can really be confident enough to state what we have in our minds in such a little time. That's almost impossible.

Therefore, we have to master the language to understand other's ideas as well as to epxress ours. If we neglect language we can be sure that we have lost half the abiltiy to think. Becuase it is only through language that we think. Language boosts our thinking process. We develop our language only when we READ. We need to read a lot.

Edwina Mountbatten's 'spiritual' affair with Pandit Nehru

New book reveals Edwina Mountbatten's 'spiritual' affair with Pandit Nehru

Edwina Mountbatten, who rubbed shoulders with royalty, danced the Charleston with Fred Astaire and let young men not only fall at her feet but into her bed as well, fell madly in love with India along with one of its new leaders - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru - India's first prime minister after independence.

On the surface, Edwina and her husband, Lord Louis Mountbatten, were the glitziest couple of their day but beneath the reality was separate beds, separate lives and a flurry of flings that set tongues wagging.

However, the young Pamela Mountbatten saw nothing untoward at first in her mother's string of male friends as revealed in a fascinating, newly published memoir.

But in time, the 'eccentricity' of her family life would inevitably be a source of bewilderment and sadness.

Yet, three-quarters of a century on, the 83-year-old Pamela writes lovingly and forgivingly of a mother who partied, frolicked and fornicated with abandon - and often left her children for some wild venture.

From the start, there was a profound connection between Edwina and Nehru but Pamela saw more.

"A peace came over her mother," the Daily mail quoted Pamela as writing.

"She was easy to get along with; a sense of well-being emanated from her.

"She found in Panditji [Nehru] the companionship and equality of spirit and intellect that she craved. Each helped overcome loneliness in the other," she wrote.

Mountbatten saw this too and let his wife get on with this new phase of her life. For him, Edwina's new interest was a relief. It got her off his back.

"Her new-found happiness released him from her relentless late-night recriminations, the constant accusations that he didn't understand her and was ignoring her," she wrote.

The four of them - father, mother, daughter and prime minister - would walk out together, but always with Edwina and Nehru together side by side up ahead.

"My father and I would tactfully fall behind when they were deep in conversation. But we did not, at any time, feel excluded," she wrote.

The Mountbattens slipped back into their old modus vivendi, 'but it was particularly easy now, for my father trusted them both.'

In later years, Pamela would pore over Nehru's letters to her mother, 'and I came to realise how deeply he and my mother loved each other.'

But Pamela is convinced that it was a spiritual and intellectual relationship, not a sexual one.

"Neither had time to indulge in a physical affair, and anyway the very public nature of their lives meant they were rarely alone," she wrote.

What was remarkable in all this - as seen through Pamela's eyes - was her father's dignity and forbearance, as it had been through all the ups and downs of his marriage to Edwina. He remained loyal to the end.

In 1960, aged 58, she died of a stroke on a tour of the Far East for a charity. She had requested to be buried at sea. As the coffin slipped below the water off the south coast of England, Pamela recalls 'my father standing with tears streaming down his face. It was the only time I had ever seen him weep. He then kissed his wreath before throwing it into the sea.'

It was the last act of a strange marriage but one which, in its own way, had worked. He had defied the gossip, kept up appearances and kept his family intact however unconventional the method.

There were apparently no scenes, no public scandal and, best of all, no acrimonious divorce. The credit for this Pamela gives unreservedly to him.