Archive for March, 2004

This part of the elections sponsored by …

Posted by gargi on 30 Mar 2004 | Tagged as: India

was at a client meeting the other day discussing a script that has to be on the floor next week. My counterparts’ Reliance phone rang - like most people in the industry he carries around a WLL and a GSM service.
He picked at it was the PM on the other side - Mein Atal Behari [...]

Crossing the Line

Posted by gargi on 20 Mar 2004 | Tagged as: Advertising

Peta has decided to run a campaign that likens non-vegetarians to Nazi’s, and animals led to slaughter, to Jewish people.
gross. and vile.
I am almost tempted to take up eating meat to counter this kind of shock advertising. and i am a vegetarian. Have been one all my life.
I don’t know what they are trying to [...]

Mutt & JD

Posted by gargi on 19 Mar 2004 | Tagged as: Doggy Tails

My two bachhas’ - my kid brother Jayadev (15 years younger than me:) and rani the dog in our life having an intense discussion about life, the universe and everything else

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Television Viewing

Posted by gargi on 16 Mar 2004 | Tagged as: Media, TV

I have just completed a report for a client on the state of commercial television broadcasting and the possible way ahead. The last 10 days have been spent revisiting territory that i haven’t seen in a long time.
I think that the primary difference in the way broadcasting is constructed in India is the fact that [...]

Mutt & JD

Posted by gargi on 07 Mar 2004 | Tagged as: Doggy Tails

The two babies of the family. Rani the Hound, and Jayadev - by kid bro’.

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Mistaking the Trees for the Woods

Posted by gargi on 07 Mar 2004 | Tagged as: Advertising, India, TV

Every so often, I come across a piece of moral posturing that makes me sit down, hold my ribs and have a hearty laugh. The latest one in a long line of hypocritical musings is from the advertising fraternity.
A joint study by O&M and Discovery channel says that kids should not be pressurised by [...]

Holi aayi re

Posted by gargi on 07 Mar 2004 | Tagged as: India

Well the festival of colours is over. parking lots are discoloured and there is enough dye on people’s faces to service a textile plant. my least fav. festival. but one i always have observed - by taking the day off. Too scared of colour on my face:)

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On Maturity

Posted by gargi on 04 Mar 2004 | Tagged as: And Finally ...

Maturity begins when we’re content to feel we’re right about
something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else
wrong.”
-*Sydney J. Harris {1917-1986 American Journalist & Author}

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