Posted by gargi on 23 Nov 2005 | Tagged as: Diary
The last few weeks - the period that i was not blogging - have been extremely stressful. There has been sleepless nights, round the clock councils of war, there has been battle, and there has been tremendous pressure exerted on us. And the three of us stood firm. It is such a relief to run [...]
Posted by gargi on 22 Nov 2005 | Tagged as: Advertising, Media
“men are supposed to be brown and rugged, not fair and pansy” said my politically incorrect mom after viewing the Fair and Handsome ad on TV tonight.
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Posted by gargi on 11 Nov 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
If you thought it was just in Hindi films that the hero sang out to the heroine when he was trying to woo her, think again.
Male mice sing to female mice when they come across atractive female mice
within seconds of encountering the scent of female mouse urine, the males broke into ultrasonic song. [...]
Posted by gargi on 08 Nov 2005 | Tagged as: India, Politics
Natwar Singh being made a minister without a portfolio is akin to a pimp without a prostitute.
Really sad. Have the spine to sack the man, or to back him. This sort of vascillating is really stupid.
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Posted by gargi on 08 Nov 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
…was essentially a continuation of yesterday - and i don’t mean it in any philo level sense.
It was a continuation of footsie and ring-a-ring-a-roses. The problem is that when you play footsie while you go around in circles, you are more likely to end up playing humpty dumpty. And we all know what happened [...]
Posted by gargi on 06 Nov 2005 | Tagged as: Diary
… we - that is the client and us - played Ring-a-ring-roses, for around 10 hours. I prefer the hangover
One day we are all going to look back and laugh. I hope that day comes soon and all involved are still on talking terms !
Today is another day. And as they say - another [...]
Posted by gargi on 03 Nov 2005 | Tagged as: Diary
am recovering from the mother of all hangovers tomorrow
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Posted by gargi on 03 Nov 2005 | Tagged as: Diary
This Diwali has been extra work for all of us.
There is Dial One aur Jeeto there is the new post produced show with all its taam jaam. and there is the fiction pilot that we are shooting in a week.
Also proposals to go in to prospective clients to whom we have made a pitch.
I think [...]
Posted by gargi on 01 Nov 2005 | Tagged as: Diary, India
For me, childhood memories of Diwali include getting up at the crack of dawn - literally - and having an oil bath - ganga snanam - before phodofying fatakas and taking sweets to the neighbours. One of the joys of liberalisation and modernisation is not waking up a the crack of dawn and downing decent [...]
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