Posted by gargi on 27 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: India
Saturday, Ganesh Temple, Prabhadevi - on route to college. That day we were favoured with blue skies - haven’t seen blue in the sky for so long. Today is the start of Ganpati - a 9 day long festivity dedicated to the incredibly adorable elephant God. Dad, JD, Rani and I travelled [...]
Posted by gargi on 26 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: And Finally ...
…. being stuck between Andheri (West) and Andheri (E) for an hour in a rickshaw that is playing back to back remixed Himesh Reshamiya.
Heller (as a superlative of hell) is not being able to get “O meri Zora Zabeen…”, as sung by him, out of my brain
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Posted by gargi on 24 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: India, Media, Politics, TV
So we can watch U & U/A, but not A, on our Television sets. Hurrah!!! The Ax(e) has fallen on the next quarters revenue targets for movie channels across the board. While everyone is mourning the loss of "Freedom of Expression" let me try and cry for the "freedom to do business". Imagine restricting the [...]
Posted by gargi on 23 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Diary, India
3 days a week, 3 hours at a go, for the last three years - I have been teaching students at Sophia College, Mumbai,the basics of media. I enjoy it. Looking at theories of media over a decade after i studied it as a student, and a over a decade of practise [...]
Posted by gargi on 22 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: India, Media, TV
Last night millions of homes in Mumbai had their first conversation in ages. The reason, television channels were blanked out by cable operators. The reason, Cable operators were protesting against police raids following a High Court Order in December to restrain
cable operators and [...]
Posted by gargi on 21 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: India, Media, TV
Hot on the heels of people turning up in thousands to drink the sea water (turned sweet) at Mahim creek, comes the story of a whole bunch of temples in MP having idols that turned into milk guzzlers.
What was a fairly localised bit of idiocy earlier, is now a viral meme infecting the whole country [...]
Posted by gargi on 17 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: And Finally ...
One of the great features about the Sony DSC H2 is the menu option to shoot in sepia or in black and white. It actually makes a huge difference shooting in that option, and shooting in colour and processing it later with photoshop. In the latter mode I ended up losing out on [...]
Posted by gargi on 13 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: India, Media, TV
There is something very disturbing about media houses falling over each other to sanitize the image of Rahul Mahajan. For someone who indulged in an orgy of excesses, with his father’s urn lying in the next room, and who ended up in hospital OD’ing on some narcotic or the other, and in whose party [...]
Posted by gargi on 09 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: India, Politics
One of the key rules of working life is that you better mark your attendance. If you don’t regularyturn up for work, a) your don’t get paid, and if your absence is chronic, b) you get sacked It is some thing that all of us live with, and accept as part of the [...]
Posted by gargi on 06 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: And Finally ...
An idealist :
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
- H.L. Mencken
This reminds me so much of the left front in India.
Brevity
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