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A celebrity campaign against gender rights violation and sexual harassment of women which began in Mumbai soon after the JW Marriott molestation case is now using music to reach out to people. The campaign called Fight Back was started by Zubin Driver, creative network director of the TV 18 group after a newly-married woman was molested outside the plush hotel in Mumbai on New Year’s eve.

Recently, we had some nice comments posted on our "Margie and Edna remember VJ Day" blog entry. While we're very glad you enjoyed the sisters' "memories" of that day, we felt like we needed to correct some misconceptions. Margie and Edna are not real people, and what we wrote are not real memories.

Today is the 63rd anniversary of “Victory Japan” Day, or VJ Day. On that day Japan announced it would surrender unconditionally. President Harry Truman warned Japan to surrender, unconditionally, from the Potsdam Conference, in July. Truman warned that the U.S. had a new, horrible weapon.

Left-click photo to enlarge. Japanese prisoners of war on Guam, with heads bowed after hearing Emperor Hirohito announce Japan's unconditional surrender.

Edna: Margie, why are you going through that box of old pictures? If you're looking for something specific, maybe I can help.Margie: Edna, I'm looking for that picture we made on VJ Day. Remember it was a picture of you, me, and our girlfriends? We were all waiting on our soldier boys.

Metal bat proposal strikes out June 27 The County Legislature Tuesday will formally pull a proposal to ban metal bats from all pre-high school baseball games at the request of its sponsor, Legislator VJ Pradhan, D-Nanuet.

Ah, the kiss. The strange ritual of pressing lips together, exchanging breath and a small amount of spittle while clicking teeth and touch tongues. Sounds disgusting, but we love to do it. So much so you spend about 2 weeks of your life performing this romantic act.

Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing --"The State of the Union," Gore Vidal If you can accept losing, you can't win --Vince Lombardi Thus it is that in war the victorious strategists only seeks