For me ,the height of Romantic Scenes in Films was Sunil Dutt crooning Jalte Hai Jiske Liye to Nutan, on a phone. Those old fashioned black phones with the ring dials. Nutan, of course, just cries.
Kind, Considerate, Liberal - in the old fashioned sense of the word, not the American monstrosity that goes by the same name - Nice with a strong moral core. Knowing the difference betwen right and wrong. And not deviating too much from his conscience.
He was my member of Parliament, and no matter which party he had represented - he was the kind of MP that you would want to vote for. I would have.
A good man, a good politician, a good MP. A few more like him and the world will probably be a better place.
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The HT hoarding legend reads - LET THERE BY LIGHT, in the process cutting off the light of the residents of Heera Panna.
With HT in front of the building and Pyramid next to it, Heera Panna may be in a posh area of town, but it sounds like a nightmare to live in:)
I am also very curious about the hoarding. That is one of the premium hoarding sites in the city. And half the message is blocked out - from the Mahalaxmi Race Course end - by the hoarding in front. I sometimes wonder how client’s agree to pay what they do!
26th May:
Check out Charu & Rashmi Bansal commenting on the HT hoarding!
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Mahuli on Her second Birthday on 22nd May.
Inertia in uploading the pictures:)
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One of the things that I have always admired about the Bennet and Coleman Group is their unabashed chutzpah! Kuch bhi bol dete hai.
I remember when they launched Indiatimes, the ToI ran a piece on “you can search the web with India Times search” - implying, of course, that there was no search available before that.
When they launched mail the same story got repeated. The same is with Zoom. Never mind that it isn’t being watched or talked about - except in media circles - from ToI’s publicity you would think that it is slightly behind Star in the ratings chart.
Today it is the turn of their yet to be launched tabloid (why would any group want two tabloids) the Mumbai Mirror. Carrying the publicity note as news is the Economic Times. The headline blares - Now, Mumbai to get a no-nonsense paper. Arre mere bhai, itne din hamme nonsense kisne diya!
Excerpt from the news item, that had me laughing. I love the ToI group for its unmistakable ability to cheer me up:)
Bennett, Coleman & Co, the publishers of The Times of India — and a group that has been known to break with convention — has decided to harness the ever-increasing assertiveness of the reader to launch the first co-created newspaper in the country.
Given the scale and kaleidoscopic nature of Mumbai, Bennett decided to undertake a massive direct contact programme in which thousands of households were visited and asked to offer their opinion on a host of subjects, ranging from their general attitudes towards life, to their needs and expectations from newspapers.
The exercise involved the use of a vast sales force especially contracted for this assignment as well as an internal fleet. In addition, the company put all its media vehicles — radio, television and internet — into play to arrive at an accurate understanding of the younger reader. As a result, Bennett now has a good insight of exactly what readers in Mumbai want, even as others are still speaking to them and trying to arrive at this understanding.
“Bennett now has a good insight of exactly what readers in Mumbai want” - does this mean that so far they didn’t know what the readers of Mumbai wanted. Also, nice to see the writer of the column on first name terms with the company!
ROTFL:))
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