Archive for December, 2003

The No.2 TV Brand in India

Posted by gargi on 29 Dec 2003 | Tagged as: And Finally ..., India

The ET today says that the most seen brand last month on TV was by brand BJP. The Congress needs to revisit the Rediff Campaign for Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress

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You are here, your job is 5000 miles away

Posted by gargi on 29 Dec 2003 | Tagged as: India

I was a student in the UK, when British Aerospace (the guys who mak(d)e Rolls Royce) decided to move some x thousand jobs to Taiwan or some such place. And there was a toon in the Guardian the next morning. Two workers at a fence which reads ” you are here, your job is 5000 [...]

Brilliant Conclusions

Posted by gargi on 28 Dec 2003 | Tagged as: India, Politics

There is a joke that goes around media circles in Mumbai. It is about a survey conducted by a baby food manufacturer on mothers and their attitudes towards children. The agency spends a fair chunk of the clients money to do cutting edge research in Metros’, mini-metros’, semi rural and rural areas across the country.
A [...]

Bringing Up Rani

Posted by gargi on 28 Dec 2003 | Tagged as: Doggy Tails

Rani has decided that my room is her room. she sleeps on one of my old bathrobes, and an old lungi of mine is her safety blanket.
Yesterday appa and amma got her a rawhide contraption as a treat. Something that she can chew on. And our little madam took to it like a dog to [...]

To Yahoo Groups or not Yahoo Groups?

Posted by gargi on 26 Dec 2003 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

I think that i am trying to catch up with 6 weeks of not blogging on one night. What to do? my fingers wont’ stop typing:)There is this almost euphoric feeling of pouring out my thoughts. Besides I blogged in my mind:))
The biggest mystery since Subhash Chandra Bose’s plane disappeared is whether Yahoo groups is [...]

Oh what a 6 weeks

Posted by gargi on 26 Dec 2003 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

My first blog in almost 6 weeks. And what a 6 weeks it has been. Work has begun. and how!
Almost everything that we pitched at over the last 8 months is paying off one way or the other. And it is slightly scary.
There is of course Cogito TV, which I run with my two partners [...]

The God of Cricket

Posted by gargi on 26 Dec 2003 | Tagged as: And Finally ..., India

Rahul Dravid Rocks.
Saw bits and pieces of the last match between the shoot, the edit and the proposal. Man, what a professional.
Waching him bat reminded me of a bit of the Mahabharat. It is exam day and Dronacharya - the guru of the Kauravas and the Pandavas- has set a test. It is a seemingly [...]