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This is my 769th post. Mmm, more than enough. Let me finish off with few jumbled thoughts.

It started sometime, somehow. It continued to flow, blogs were more or less very personal. In the recent past its character got changed drastically. Personal touch got washed away completely. Certain kind of political hue, a certain way of looking at issues ( Read more... )

Very nice article :

http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article45377.ece

The author says : Dear co-parents, some of us might hear a small, fading voice making yet another attempt to reach us. Some thing we ignore. But are there any schools with ( Read more... )

You should not speak in hindi, said the MNS. You disgraced maratha said Bal Thackeray.

Friends, it is better for your well being to follow me. Speak less! Try to convey your ideas using different forms of actions.

Start trying it from now own. It will come to your safety in future, not so far, when people would get killed for speaking and not for ( Read more... )

Two new books :

Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
No Logo - Naomi Klein

Thinking of posting chapter wise gist.

-Roopesh 

In between all the news of media corruption I will tell a personal incidence. I am staying in a house for rent, the house owner is an ex journalist, now he is a news planter :) Corporate companies and all prefer news instead of advertisements. Means if a company introduces a product, instead of an advertisement , the company can approach a news ( Read more... )

Senior Journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta talks about the rs. 50,000 cr (10 billion USD) 2g license scam pulled of by Communications and Information Technology minister A. Raja

http://newsclick.in/?q=node/739

Another excellent article by Prabir ( Read more... )

http://newsclick.in/?q=node/748

Please watch the interview. Seema Mustafa's last point is worth following - of a media commission to act as a media watch.

FYI....  NewsClick.in brings an alternate perspective to that of the corporate media that dominates the world today. This possible as ( Read more... )

We said dirty politics? How about dirty media? (On how media is playing its role dutifully in damaging democracy.) Read on...

http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article38482.ece

-Roopesh

As a child I had a some of russian story books which were so enticing. One of those was the Rainbow Flower, Mazhavil Poovu. Story of a little girl who after buying bread rings, walks back to her home enjoying the sights. Meanwhile her bread rings are eaten by a street dog. She runs after the dog to reach somewhere unknown. An old lady gifts her a ( Read more... )