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Madh Island, Mumbai, is dotted with bungalows that are often used for shoots. They are called shoot bungalows – as compared to the private or company bungalows that dot the landscape.
We were shooting for a show called Golden Age, hosted by Kitu Gidwani – that goes on Samay Mumbai from next week. The show [...]

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Once again my eye chances upon something that induces your my jaw to hit the floor and come back up in very, very slow motion. The world’s largest selling English language daily in association with the owner of an IPL team bring you this :

as my biz partner SR would point out “paidayashi aise the, [...]

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From the ToI – sometime last year
When Sonia Gandhi hid her tears and despair behind those famous dark glasses and sat still like a nun at prayer,  the embalmed body of her husband Rajiv Gandhi on a hot May afternoon of 1991, few  would have imagined she would one day become one of the most [...]

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…if people like ‘us’  (as in the elite – definitely not me ) commit a crime – even a heinous one, is it not a crime? Does coming from a certain ‘background’ absolve you of guilt ?
So why this outpouring of grief over Kobad Ghandy and Roman Polanski.
Mr.Ghandy is the member one of the leading [...]

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Where there is friendship, can originship be far away ?
This from the DNA :

Am not sure if this is the DNA or PTI – but it seems as if all newspapers and news agencies have laid off the copy team.
p.s. – i don’t go looking for copy mistakes, they just rise out of the [...]

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rather boring three days. was at holy spirit for death by boredom and a zillion and one tests. caught up on reading and actually read the newspapers instead of getting a RSS feed. Almost died of a heart attack when i saw this :

i can’t make up stuff like this

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Two very different stories caught my attention today. Both are related to media coverage.
One was in the Indian Express by Rajat Sharma, of India TV, quoting a former Army Chief – who had come into the channel to advice producers & camerapersons on :
what precautions they should have taken while showing “live” action. [...]

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The glee and irresponsibility with which the media handled 26/11 was watched by all. but, at what cost?
On the first night – there was CNN IBN giving a blow by blow account of the movement of the Rapid Action Force commando’s. I shouted, impotently at the TV screen, they get TV reception at the [...]

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This from the DNA in “Why are we comfortably numb in a violent decade?” on violence in media and on whether it numbs us.
It starts with a ‘quote’
‘Violence repels us but violence also attracts us;
Violence alarms us but violence also entertains us;
Violence destroys us but violence also protects us.’
The above lines are taken from [...]

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This morning I was in class teaching Media Studies. We were looking at different aspects of media — especially the ‘filtering aspect’. Dennis McQuail – media theorist – defines this as
…selecting out parts of experience for special attention and closing off other aspects of experience, whether deliberately and systematically or not…
And, then i got [...]

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