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This Blog has moved. Sevanti Ninan's The Hoot. Takes apart the Indian TV News Media's tiresome coverage of the Pramod Mahajan crisis in Those Dumb Questions. One reporter demanded to know why a mentally unstable man was given a licence for a revolver. "he is mentally unstable now. When he was given the licence he must have been ok. The police gives the licence after due enquiries. It doesn't go to a mental hospital and give out gun licences.". Crossposted @ CSF II. Movie say koi ummeed hai? To which, zin...

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This Blog has moved. I don't get it. November 24, 2006 6:28 AM. November 24, 2006 6:29 AM. For a minute there, you had me very worried. November 24, 2006 6:35 AM. It wasn't terribly funny. November 28, 2006 6:10 AM. Links to this post:. From Delhi, India. [ more. I write on Digital Content. In India for ContentSutra. Views expressed at Mixed Bag. Are mine, and are not meant to represent those of my employer or anyone else. Help feed my inbox. Hu is the President of China. On User Generated Content. Clima...

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This Blog has moved. Jazz Utsav 2006 (Woohoo! Well, I'd been wondering about the Jazz Utsav. had a wonderful time last year, and even if I did rant about some of the performances ( here. I remember it fondly; it was, by far, the best experience of live music I had last year.and I went for some 34 gigs in all. No such luck this year, even though the number of live events has increased. Sai International Centre, Lodhi Road. 6 pm to 10 pm. Delhi), Kirsti Huke Quartet. Norway), Martin Dhanukar. Rs 500 and Rs...

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This Blog has moved. Foot in mouth during cricket shows. Three instances of foot-in-mouth from Charu Sharma:. 1 Last week, during one of the cricket asides, there was Mandira Bedi trying to look like a pretty young thing, and Charu Sharma, her co-host spoiled it for her by mentioning that she has three kids. 3 A few minutes ago: ".like seeing Pollock do the Ms. World." He meant act like her, but the eerie silence that followed indicated that everyone else thought he meant something else. Mandira bedi Ser...

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This Blog has moved. CII Marketing Summit '06: Inaugural Session. I covered the CII Marketing Summit '06 for ContentSutra. Held at the Taj Palace Hotel on 17th and 18th August. The theme of the event was "Marketing in a Global World: New Rules for an Old Game". Disturbing. I feel watched, and I'm sure this will give rise to some serious legal issues in the future. I also liked the presentations by Prasoon Joshi and Piyush Pandey, although they were more like motivational speeches. I missed th...Began: he...

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This Blog has moved. So, will you try this at home? Immediately makes me think of The Tipping Point. YouTube, Google videos, the online videos space has created this craze. As this becomes more and more popular, more people will want to try it at home, maybe repeatedly. A chain reaction. The question is - will this impact sales of Diet Cola and Mentos? Looks like it takes quite a few attempts before one gets it right. He's posted the best of the videos. The song - Thunder by AC/DC (thanks Shyam. Ajai Cho...

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This Blog has moved. CII Marketing Summit '06: Tamar Kasriel, Head Knowledge Venturing, Henley Centre Headlight Vision UK. Tamar said that in an urban sample, most needs are largely met. That's something that is happening in urban India as well - wants are driving indian economy, with most needs met. Hence, this is the desire economy. On example of the desire economy is the desire to buy candles. Where there is electricity, where's the need for candles? HLL CEO Douglas Baillie on Global-Local dichotomy.

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This Blog has moved. On Shrimant and the Indian state recognizing royal titles. I was rather shocked to see this mentioned on the front page of the Times of India, frankly, though I am no constitutional expert, I do believe that the following goes against the spirit of the constitution, wherein all citizens must be equal in the eyes of the state. While the state (and the people) often do not go by the constitution, I see a major difference between someone being addressed as 'His/Her Royal Highness' becau...

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This Blog has moved. All Jazz'd up - Jazz Utsav '05, Day One. I'd been waiting for the Jazz Utsav. For about a month and after all that running around for tickets, which I finally got from RSJ. Thanks again Shivangi), I was in a this-better-be-worth-it mood. It was. To torture me when I wanted to listen to Green Day and Colourblind. Has something to do with it. After a meeting in some forsaken part of Kalkaji, I picked up Aishwarya. 1 The Steve Siqueira Quintet:. Or bass guitar solos? Played the violin r...

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This Blog has moved. CII Marketing Summit '06: Britannia MD&CEO Vinita Bali on Marketing to the New Indian Consumer. By 2020, the average age will be 29, and most of these consumers will be used to the digital space. A huge degree of changes are expected in a short period of time. How much of this change has been internalised by today's marketers, who seem to be focused on the pre-liberalisation lot, still? Also, why are marketers continuing to pay lip service to the rural consumer? HCL’s Ajai Chowdhry D...