Posted by gargi on 31 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: India
I think that the Government has hit the nail on the head in asking religious leaders to intercede in stemming female foeticide.
The union ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) has written to Sri Sri Ravishankar, Mata Amritanandmayi, Dinkar, Asaram Bapu and even popular yoga guru Baba Ramdev to spearhead a campaign to save the [...]
Posted by gargi on 28 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: Diary
I love the rains. Always have. And one of the things that i enjoy the most about the monsoons is the kind of light that filters over Mumbai. This is stuff that i have shot over the last few weeks - experimenting with aperature control and shutter speed When sun light filters [...]
Posted by gargi on 25 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: India, Media, Print
Pardon the really bad pun, but i had a bit of television news induced diabetes following the wall to wall television coverage of the boy stuck at the bottom of a well. This was the dumb newscasters’ dream come true - what can pull at the heart strings more than saving a child in [...]
Posted by gargi on 23 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: India
Currently researching on Buddha, Buddhism in Western India, and the ancient sea port of Soparaka for a documentary film. We visited Kanheri Caves in that regard a couple of weeks ago - it began life as a resting place for weary travellers. It was much later that it became the Buddhist monastry? [...]
Posted by gargi on 22 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: And Finally ...
37 th anniversary of the moon landings.
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Posted by gargi on 21 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: India, Media
One of my favourite stories about journalists and journalism is this one (probably an urban legend but one which I can identify with):
"Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the show?"
Anyone who is following newschannels in India will be familiar with a camera in some poor sod’s face and the standard question ‘aapko [...]
Posted by gargi on 20 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: Diary, India
Currently experimenting with close up macro shooting, in addition to potraits (which can also be close up macros)
this was about a week ago at Borivili National Park on the way to Kanheri Caves.
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Posted by gargi on 19 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: India, Media
Are we heading towards another Emergency?’ while i have serious issues with the Government’s ham-handed response in blocking blogs - responses like this are truly overkill ! As someone who works in the media, I understand that links have to be clicked and papers have to be sold and channels have to be [...]
Posted by gargi on 19 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: India
The US administration on the Mumbai Bomb Blasts - why are they called 7/11 ? is our desire to find symmetry so high that we ape the unfamiliar? - today:
I know there’s a lot of speculation out there now. That happens in these cases. But I think we need to be led by [...]
Posted by gargi on 17 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: India
A couple of years ago to almost the day , a young lady called Manaroma Devi was picked up by the armed forces, under the extremely repressive Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). The state was Manipur, the armed forces was a detatchment of Assam Rifles and with a few hours Manorama Devi’s raped, tortured [...]
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