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October 16, 2008Stuff 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…
The State as Nanny….
October 13, 2008… 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…
How Does Your Garden Grow?
October 9, 2008Last weekend was at Nangargaon, Lonavala. It was an extended weekend. The garden needed fixing, the home had a whole bunch of little things to get right – and the one day breaks was not enough to get anything done. The earlier…
Do ‘Journalists’ make it Up?
October 6, 2008This 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…
Tezuka – Ode to Kirihito
October 3, 2008Ode to Kirihito – Osamu Tezuka is one of my favourite graphic novelists. I found his Buddha series incredible, and his Apollo’s Song heartbreakingly beautiful. JD gifted me ‘An Ode to Kirihito a few months ago, but i simply didn’t have the…
Fun with lightroom
September 24, 2008Adobe Lightroom is a great software to catalog and play around with your digital photographs. i have just about begun getting the hang of it… and the only thing that i seem to have got in place is ‘selective colouring’ and i…
Putrashoka — Grief on the loss of a Child
September 21, 2008Putra – child ; shoka – grief. My paternal grandmother had 7 children. 3 survive. The remaining 4 died between the ages of 3 months and 2 years. She accepted it as Karma. But, despite that she couldn’t help grieving, every so…
Media Bias ?
September 20, 2008Sometimes 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…
Media as Filter
September 18, 2008This 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…
We are what we Click
September 17, 2008.. 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…