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May 18, 2008Stuff that made me – in no particular order – think, chortle, smirk, snigger , slurp, nod my head wisely. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to figure 🙂 a) Economic Woman looks at…
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Media, Media Bias, Propaganda, Media Studies, Media Ownership
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May 14, 2008Stuff that made me – in no particular order – think, chortle, smirk, snigger , nod my head wisely. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to figure 🙂 a) Vatican Astronomers say that God…
Who Eats What and Where !
May 5, 2008The 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…
Manna De – Happy Birthday
May 4, 2008Manna De The 1950’s and 1960’s possibly had the best in terms of musical talent in the Hindi Film Industry. The kind of music that was created was superlative by any standards. And, there was choice – there was classical, rock, jazz,…
Front Page Retractions ….
April 18, 2008…. 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,…
Interesting Research
April 10, 2008For the last 4 weeks or so we have been hard at work on our business plan. After 4 years of running our own business, it is time to get some cash infusion to do bigger and better things… Part of putting…
Oxymoronic Thoughts….
March 30, 2008This from the RSS – [tag]The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh[/tag] not Really Simple Syndication According to RSS, everybody has a right to pray for his deity in his style. But every Indian should accept that [tag]Ganga[/tag] is a holy river and [tag]Ramayan[/tag] and…
Diplomatically Speaking
March 28, 2008….the Chinese Ambassador to Canada : ''The [tag]Dalai Lama[/tag] has been telling lies to the world for decades,'' ''What has happened in Tibet was instigated by separatist groups led by Dalai Lama clique.'' ''Any remarks made accusing [tag]China[/tag] of so called [tag]human…
Ficci Frames 2008
March 26, 2008[tag]Ficci Frames 2008[/tag] began yesterday in [tag]Mumbai[/tag]. 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….
Restricting Big Brother…
March 17, 2008Last week a call center person was at the receiving end of my ire. He called me up and told me that abc was the outstanding on my credit card and I could avail myself of a personal loan to pay it…