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  1. A dam hot show on TV

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    / December 9, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By T S Sudhir Somewhere in India. A TV set sometime late in the evening. (Opening montage music) Anchor : Hello and welcome to `Face the Station’. Yes your television station to get a ringside view of all that happened in the nation today. As always, we look at the...

  2. Censorship in the Kolaveri era is a joke

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    / December 8, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Nisha Sanjeev Little did `Gandhian’ political party know when they set out to play their cards on the Web that this is the generation of kolaveris. The instant era.  So while the executive of the web companies did not oblige the government, the web-nation erupted in protest the moment...

  3. Is Justice Katju’s grouse against the media justified?

    Posted by Suresh Heblikar
    / December 7, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Suresh Heblikar There is a debate raging in this country on the remarks made by justice Katju about the way the media is functioning in this country. What needs to be understood in the context of what he has said is that the media is not seriously addressing the...

  4. Kapil bowls an out-swinger to the web

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    / December 6, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By T S Sudhir Bravo Mr Kapil Sibal. Today you confirmed what I always thought you were. A loyal Dus Janpathiya. I fully support your move to regulate and teach a lesson to these website waala. It is nice that you wear your loyalty on your blackberry. I fully appreciate...

  5. Hooked to Mix

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    / November 27, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By G Mohan Sometime last week, while aimlessly surfing channels, I hit upon a new music channel – Sony Mix. I have been going to that channel, more often than any other. In short, I am getting hooked to it. Mix is not the first Hindi music channel. Yet, it...

  6. In defence of the smiley

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    / November 18, 2011 / 5 Comments
    I am a copywriter by profession. It is a profession that demands meticulous attention to grammar, spelling and punctuation. The meticulous is often so demanding that it is beyond human ability – after all a badly spelled advertisement can make a brand look cheap and imitative. You’d think a person like...
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    Tagged , frown, mail, smiley,

  7. Baby Bachchan is delivered. Whew!

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    / November 18, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Archana Venkat While the electronic media decided to go easy on the Bachchans by excluding Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s delivery from news coverage, their online divisions went to town with a literal minute by minute analysis of the situation (considering the lack of any updates to report). In the last...

  8. Is blogging a pastime or a timepass?

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    / November 9, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By G Mohan   Pastime or Time-pass. Do they mean the same? They are just the same two words time and pass, joined differently. The dictionary meaning of the word `pastime’ is “An activity that someone does regularly for enjoyment rather than work; a hobby.” The same dictionary throws up...
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    Tagged blogging, column, pastime, timepass,

  9. New owners for TV9

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    / November 9, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By M S Hussain   Back in 2002, when iLabs (now known as Peepul Investment), the investment vehicle of Chintalapati Srinivasa Raju, announced that it was planning to start a Telugu news channel, I expressed reservations about the probability of success of a news channel in the Andhra Pradesh market,...

  10. When Ad was not a b-ad word

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    / November 1, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By V Desikan   My recent discussion with my wife was about opting for a satellite-based HD connectivity, without ad breaks.   The overdose of advertisements seems to be taking a toll on all TV viewers. Even in the internet space, we are now inundated with flash pop-ups which come...

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