Posted by gargi on 01 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Cogito TV, Diary, Photographs, Print
Was in Sri Lanka for a week, for a reccie for a NGO film. I didn’t really do the tourist circuit, but saw the Sri Lanka in which people live a work. Villages & communities recovering from the Tsunami, villages and communities coping with a changing environment that can have serious repercussions on their lives [...]
Posted by gargi on 31 May 2008 | Tagged as: Media, Print
One of the most difficult parts of teaching is making sure that students get it into their heads that plagiarism is wrong.I am known to have thrown bitch fits when i have discovered chunks of projects from the net. ‘you will lose your job’ i tell them, ‘no one will hire you’, ‘it is [...]
Posted by gargi on 05 May 2008 | Tagged as: India, Media, Print, TV
The day after news channels and politicians got their combined knickers in a twist about George Bush’s comments on India’s food consumption contributing to rising prices some interesting stats :
Figures released by the US Department of Agriculture for 2007 say each Indian eats only 178 kg of grain in a year, while a [...]
Posted by gargi on 18 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: And Finally ..., India, Media, Print
…. are always fun (except for the newspaper concerned), but they take a life of their own when the newspaper masks the fact that it has been made an idiot, by taking the moral high ground…..
What am I talking about…. well, it is about the famous Maliaka Arora and Arbaaz Khan break up reported in [...]
Posted by gargi on 26 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Advertising, Films, India, Media, Music, Print, TV, Web
Ficci Frames 2008 began yesterday in Mumbai. This year's theme was sustaining development.
As, usual it was great for the networking. I caught with quite a few people that I had lost touch with. Met some new ones. Bonded with old colleagues. Drank lots of coffee. attended loads of talks where i felt like a school [...]
Posted by gargi on 02 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: India, Media, Print
In the Economic Times, Entertainment and Media Section, on 1st Novemer. there is a story that had me scratching my head….
Cosmo Films to invest Rs 225 cr for capacity expansion
NEW DELHI: Cosmo Films, leading bi-axially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) and thermal lamination film maker, today announced an investment of Rs 225 crore for its [...]
Posted by gargi on 22 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: India, Media, Print
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 [...]
Posted by gargi on 06 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: India, Media, Print
This, a headline from the ET - India's most widely circulated business broadsheet : Some SC/STs too made it on merit replace the word SC/ST with any other ethnic/religious/gender grouping and tell me what is right/ wrong with this headline. media bias anyone or am I being oversensitive?
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Posted by gargi on 20 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: India, Print
the ToI - the world’s largest selling English paper - puts out a supplement where a South Indian - to be precise superstar Rajnikant - is referred to as a Southie. What next? a Muslim referred to as a Mossie, a North Indian as a bhaaiya, a Gujarati as a Gujju, [...]
Posted by gargi on 18 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: India, Media, Print, TV
Anyone who participates in a show like Big Brother or Survivor knows that it is not a civilized tea party. It is visceral, viscious and violent (emotionally). The show is about being ‘ugly’ and letting it all hang out. Can you imagine how boring it would be if 13 people - whom you don’t know [...]
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