Paying it forward

Amitabh Bachchan has cleared the loans of more than one thousand farmers in Uttar Pradesh. “Cleared the loans of farmers from Uttar Pradesh ... select few were booked by me on train from Varanasi, and given OTS [One Time Settlement with Bank Of India],” Bachchan tweeted late on Monday.

He also personally met some of them to give them their bank letters. “Let the Laxmi [Hindu deity of wealth]of the house, the daughter give them that,” he wrote, sharing photographs with daughter Shweta Bachchan on the blog post. The actor invited 70 farmers to Mumbai by blocking an entire train compartment for them to personally give away the bank letters.