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A “Perfect Widow”

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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Origin(ship) of Language !

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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ToI believes in Life after Death

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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Caste Cast or Cats !!

Dictionary.com has around 76 known usages of the word cast.
I am reproducing 6 of those here, do check out the rest – they too are illuminating !
–verb (used with object)
1. to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
2. to throw off or away: He cast the advertisement in the wastebasket.
3. to direct (the [...]

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Typos as Headlines

choking on your coffee is not the best way to wake up.
as i was catching up on the morning’s headlines on google news – this one caught my eye.
fYi – there is no word called fule

copy editor – is not someone who copies from the net and pastses pastes on-line
I hope [...]

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Do ‘Journalists’ make it Up?

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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Am Back ….

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 [...]

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Plagiarism 101

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 [...]

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Who Eats What and Where !

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 [...]

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Front Page Retractions ….

…. 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 [...]

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