Harini Calamur's Writings
Media, Media Bias, Propaganda, Media Studies, Media Ownership
An entire festival dedicated to the Big B – in New York this month. The 11 film retrospective inlcudes some of my favourites – Anand, Deewar (the old one, not the ghastly new one thank god), Abhimaan, Amar Akbar Anthony. They have…
Today’s coloumn by Sucheta Dalal, The Indian Express carries just enough innuendo’s for those inside the media to guess the company. This is rather like the ToI’s breaking story on the Ambani feud. No names. But enough insinuations for people in the…
After 11 years in the media, the one thing that i have realised is that there is this mythical thing called Freedom of the Press. The Values attributed to it are impartiality, truth, and a crusade for what is right correct and…
Today, came into my inbox a mail from Business World – “Publishing Industry’s moment of Reckoning” it screamed. So obviously i clicked on it. The story was about Dainik Bhaskar and Zee’s proposed English newspaper, HT coming into mumbai, and ToI moving…
This post first appeared on Media Musings on the 17th of Feb. sheer laziness (or is it inertia) that prevented me from posting it here! For the last few months we have been working closely with Sahara One to develop a show…
This has been the focus of my life over the last two months. how does one create a half an hour on television that disrupts every other channels’ viewing pattern? We have something in place which should go on Sahara One very…
the age of fund raising has arrived in India and the Indian people have proved more than willing to put their money where their mouth is and donate for those who have less than them. The Gujarat earth quake a few years…
When I started the Media Musings blog – one of the first things that i wrote a couple of lines on was the number of TV shows that were being made on foreign formats. So we have an Indian Idol, a Crorepati,…
read about this bizzare gameshow in China – of all places – where contestants on an entertaiment show were asked to guess how many children died in Beslan. Pravda– yes it has survived the fall of the Soviet Union – reports: The…
Star’s new teaser campaign: given that Star has single handedly managed to turn many of us into non TV watchers – spearheading the dreadful Saas Bahu Sagas – i find their campaign highly ironical