Harini Calamur's Writings
Media, Media Bias, Propaganda, Media Studies, Media Ownership
[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….
Last 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…
…..Not so much a concise book, as a slightly largish magazine feature. It has the wry observation, and the witty descriptions that is [tag]Bill Bryson[/tag]'s trademark .. but it isn't an involving read. And much like nicely written features for In flight…
…. while [tag]Mumbai[/tag] collectively chokes in the smog – is it just me or is it extra polluted this winter, my eyes simply wouldn’t stop burning & watering – I am off to the hills… The folks at Blogbharati are celebrating their…
Today is the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition…… it is also the anniversary of a particularly unpleasant personal failure, that was ignited by the demolition…. I was a student in London when the Mosque came down with a whole bunch of…
This from here: and the rest of it is great too…… stumbleupon is a great utility……
In the [tag]Economic Times[/tag], 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…
There are some stories that simply don’t make the news, while others more than make up for it in terms of volume……even though both may be in the same zone…..Let’s look at a few random examples: Amitabh Bachchan’s house getting flooded is…
Project Censored has a list of the top 25 censored stories of 2007. This is obviously in the USA. And here censorship does not necessarily mean reports or reportage that the Government bans in a ham handed manner. Oh, those will get…
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…