Posts from ‘October, 2007’

31st October is the death anniversary of one of the greatest music directors of the Hindi Film Industry. This is the first person who went beyond Indian Classical roots, or western classical roots – like many of his contemporaries – and made folk music the basis for his brand of Hindi Film Music. He left [...]

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There are some stories that simply don’t make the news, while others more than make up for it in terms of volume……even though both may be in the same zone…..Let’s look at a few random examples:

Amitabh Bachchan’s house getting flooded is news, 1.3 million people in Bihar and Orissa losing their homes due to floods [...]

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Project Censored has a list of the top 25 censored stories of 2007. This is obviously in the USA. And here censorship does not necessarily mean reports or reportage that the Government bans in a ham handed manner. Oh, those will get reported no.  It is rather, a compbination of multiple stake holders who ensure [...]

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I have finally upgraded my blog -
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Have finally overcome severe inertia to upgrade the site … to a new version of word press etal
This follows hot on the heels of me upgrading my machine at home….. am still finding my way around the new system …. personalizing it etal….
if the blog disappears for ever in the process of the upgrades…… it [...]

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You must have been on moon not to have not heard and be struck by Tehelka’s expose on the Gujarat riots, in the words of the men who committed murder, rape, and carnage.

THERE WAS no spontaneity to what happened in Gujarat post- Godhra. This [...]

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…. is a term my mother often uses to describe me and my friends — both male and female. Sometimes my dad says that i who was so focused and blinkered when I was twenty possilby regressed into my teens. My grandmother was zapped when she asked me recently “When are you going to [...]

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If you have ever wondered how it feels at the moment of death, you don’t have to rack your imagination anymore…
From Drowning to Explosive Decomprssion an entire list has been painstakingly put together here. Here is an excerpt….
Decapitation was regarded as swift & painless….
I would be very interested in research techniques

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The NYT has an excellent op-ed on corruption. Specifically, corruption in the context of the Iraq war. Called Suicide is Not Painless (a kind of hat tip to MASH whose theme music was "Suicide is Painless"). It starts with the suicide of a civil servant who could have been indicted for corruption… and then it [...]

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… kind of describes our politicians well, and it describes people of all political persuasion. This from CNN-IBN

"Rahul-Rajiv, Rajiv-Feroz. Until there it’s okay, but then what after that? These Congressmen who abuse Narendra Modi, show us your roots. You are the descendants of Muslims from Junagadh," he said.
The barb on Rahul Gandhi’s origins came after [...]

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