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  1. Satyameva Jayate = Social Pornography?

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    / May 6, 2012 / 20 Comments
    Aamir Khan’s much hyped TV program is finally on air, and my parents spent the morning hour watching it. I can happily exclude myself, since I’m an internet addict, and the computer in my house is at right angles to the telly. I did hear it though, from start to...

  2. Of soaps and supervamps

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    / February 7, 2012 / 3 Comments
    My mom is visiting for a couple of months – and there are two main side effects of this. The first is that I find myself on the wrong side of the ‘nagging’ process – I get so relentlessly nagged by her that I forget to nag my own kids....

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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,...

  6. Flight of talent from Indian journalism

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    / June 30, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By G Mohan   M S Hussain in a blogpost in `The South Reports’ (The Trivilization of Mainstream media) had lamented that there has been a drop in the quality of our newspapers due to crass commercialisation and poor observance of media ethics. That’s perhaps one reason (or due to ...

  7. 30-minute Television

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    / April 7, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Sheela Panicker   The minute you step out of Chennai airport, you can feel the vibrancy in the air. No surprise as election fever peaks in Tamil Nadu. Never mind that both father and son, aka Karunanidhi and Stalin have moved from their constituencies in the heart of Chennai...

  8. My wardrobe malfunction

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    / February 10, 2011 / 2 Comments
    Prannoy Roy had added a couple of smileys and exclamation marks to a mail that he forwarded to me a couple of years ago. A viewer of NDTV had objected to what he saw on air on the channel on December 9, 2009. The viewer’s unhappiness was not about the...

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