Harini Calamur's Writings
Media, Media Bias, Propaganda, Media Studies, Media Ownership
Finally after a year in pre production, Jhing Chik Jhing went on the floors in Dhule on the 10th of November 2008. It is Cogito’s first foray into films. Shishir & Pushpank are on location in Dhule. Shirish and I are holding…
… in the current economic crisis, it kind of seems silly to speak out against government intervention, but this is not about economics. It is about rights & choices, and Mr. Ramdoss is beginning to get serious delusions of grandeur. “On weekends…
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…
Sometimes Media Bias can come through in something as simple as a the difference between the headline and body copy. This from CNN IBN The Headline reads – “Cong Not in Favour of PM-BJP Unity : Khursheed” And the content of the…
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…
.. and we (as in the online community) click a lot. Yahoo News had an interesting piece on audience trends. ….surfing for p*rn had dropped to about 10 percent of searches from 20 percent a decade ago, and the hottest Internet searches…
61 years old. Happy Birthday. And on this day let me link two ads. one from a time that i was growing up, and the other from now. Hamara Bajaj – 1989 Hamara Baja – 2006 Bhuland Bharat ki Bhuland Tasveer Naye…
Batman is possibly one of the most fascinating characters in fiction. His origin is universal – he could be anyone anywhere who witnessed his parents being murdered and swore that if it possible no one else will suffer his losses- he could…
Stuff that made me – in no particular order – think, chortle, smirk, snigger , slurp, nod my head wisely, with sorrow, and in a wtf mode. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to…
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…