Posted by gargi on 29 May 2007 | Tagged as: Wordpress
My earlier hosting service, the excellent Weblleyou is in the process of winding down their service.
And there i was, happily settled into my home - and had to move all over again. Given that in my childhood i moved 8 homes by the time I was in the 10th - i have this great aversion [...]
Posted by gargi on 25 May 2007 | Tagged as: Films, Media
Raymond Chandler on Hollywood, quoted in the Guardian
“Its idea of ‘production value’ is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and 18 changes of costume, or for some male idol of the [...]
Posted by gargi on 21 May 2007 | Tagged as: Media, TV
Most TV people I know consume very little of the medium. And, I am no exception. Partly it is the hours that I keep, and partly is the fact that saas bahu has no appeal to me. And the thought of watching over made up women, with loud costumes, and even louder background music, and [...]
Posted by gargi on 21 May 2007 | Tagged as: And Finally ...
From somewhere on the net, words of wisdom !
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Happy new week !!
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Posted by gargi on 16 May 2007 | Tagged as: Media
Today is Cogito TV’s fourth anniversary 4 years of being an entreprenuer. What have I learnt? Humility - possibly, Patience - definitely. Above all, the sense that i have to do my best to succeed because going back to work in an organisational set up is scary !!
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Posted by gargi on 09 May 2007 | Tagged as: graphic novels
There were soap operas - there still are — and then there were space operas, and now to top it all– we have the comic book opera. DC’s 52 week long extravaganza - aptly named 52 - combined incredible writing talents to deliver one of the strongest episodic performances of last year. Better than most [...]
Posted by gargi on 07 May 2007 | Tagged as: Films
Imagine spending an evening with a man who is the verbal equivalent of Mr.Bean. That is essentially the one-liner of the film Bheja Fry. In the film, Vinay Pathak plays Bharat Bhushan, an Income Tax Officer with a passion for Hindi films and a penchant for blurting out the wrong thing at the wrong [...]
Posted by gargi on 02 May 2007 | Tagged as: And Finally ...
Woody Allen in Annie Hall (on California)
Annie: It’s so clean out here!
Alvy (Woody): That’s because they don’t throw their garbage away, they turn it into television shows.
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Posted by gargi on 02 May 2007 | Tagged as: India
In the 60th year of being Independent and the 57th year of being a Republic, a different kind of May Day Story -
27-year-old Ratnamma, a garment factory worker, was forced to deliver a baby on the streets of Bangalore because her manager insisted on her filling out a leave application, despite the fact [...]
Posted by gargi on 02 May 2007 | Tagged as: India
Part of the last week or so has been spent at the University Of Mumbai - Kalina - correcting BMM papers. One of the good things about this years lot has been the number of students who seem to have understood the subject rather than mouthing the same set of standard notes that float [...]
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