24 Hour Infomercials ?
August 17, 2009At first, when my nani called me up to tell me that SRK was arrested in the USA – I thought that they had sent him to Gitmo ! Then i realised it was a 2 hour stop at the airport. I…
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Classical Kishore Kumar
August 6, 2009Lazy blogging. Yesterday, was Kishore Kumar’s birthday. and, i thought i will re-cycle last year’s post on classical Kishore- (origianl post August 16th 2008) Kishore Kumar was a genius. And, it was his birthday about 10 days ago (4th August) yesterday ….
Outliers – a Review
July 26, 2009Take some data. it could be any data. Add a bit of correlation, stir in a bit of causality, simmer with coincidence and garnish with a leap of faith – package well with a chatty narrative style -and bingo – you have…
Moral Hypocrisy ?
July 24, 2009What did he expect ? Abhinav Bhatt, a law student based in Pune, filed a complaint with the magistrate’s court in June 2000, saying that Rediff has committed offence under section 292 of IPC (selling, distributing obscene material). His contention was that…
Sach ka Samna : Vacant – Party of Opposition, India
July 23, 2009Sach Ka Samna on Star Plus has created a storm in a tea cup. It’s a show that is a format adaptation – based on the ‘Moment of Truth’. I saw it last week. I liked the way that it has been…
Typos as Headlines
June 18, 2009choking 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…
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Food for Thought
June 8, 2009After a few weeks of being immersed in Disaster Risk Reduction – thanks to the documentary, Farmer Suicides and the way out – thanks to our Marathi feature film “Jhing Chik Jhing”, and politics & elections – thanks to the elections; I…
‘Copyright’ or ‘Right to Copy’
April 19, 2009And, last week the founders and owners of Pirate Bay were found guilty of copyright infringement and : The Stockholm district court on Friday sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom to one year in prison each for…
Quick Review – Pride & Glory
April 5, 2009i kind of know why I stopped watching movies. They got bad. Then, they got terrible. And, then they just got plain unwatchable. And, i went from being someone who would watch a movie a day to one who watches one every…
Quick Movie Reviews
March 30, 2009I have been seriously falling behind in Movie watching. But, since the beginning of the month – i have begun making a tentative time table. At least one Movie a week. See, it start to end. Do not let boredom or impatience…