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    / March 18, 2012 /
    About four years ago, a friend and I started a blog called Secondtake. (http://secondtake.wordpress.com). The blog was aimed at giving a second opinion on the business news and events of the day. Until then, when we felt like giving an opinion, we used to write to `Letters to the Editor’....

  2. Keeping an eye on paid media

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    / March 17, 2012 / 1 Comment
      The next time you report on the winning chances of a candidate and the appeal of a party in any election coverage story, you will come under the purview of ‘paid news’ and the expenditure on the story will get added on to the candidate’s election expenditure.   On...

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    / February 27, 2012 /
    So my aunt calls my mother and says “Wow, Nivedita has grown up to be such a beautiful girl.”  My mother finds that comment odd. Though Nivedita is a beloved and smart kid in the immediate family, “such a beautiful” is probably a stretch!  “Where did you meet her?” asks...

  4. Yeddyurappa’s `porn show’

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    / February 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    B S Yeddyurappa is a desperate man. The lust for the chief minister’s chair, that was taken away from him last year, so strong that he has been issuing frequent deadlines to Nitin Gadkari and company that “appoint me or else”. Unfortunately for him, Gadkari continues to back Sadananda in...

  5. Newspaper + Coffee, rolled into one

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    / February 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    A good way to entice readers ! On Sunday (February 19), the readers of `The Sunday Times’ in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi smelt coffee while reading their morning paper. Afaqs.com reports that is because each copy of the newspaper was sprayed with coffee smell, thereby spreading the aroma of Hindustan Unilever’...

  6. The case of the reluctant blogger

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    / February 15, 2012 / 2 Comments
    The other day someone was kind enough, or rather gracious enough to refer to me as an avid blogger in introduction. While I smiled that silly smile which I reserve for moments of discomfort, I could not bring myself to refute the allegation. However, I do admit that I do...

  7. TOI turning into a Hindu?

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    / February 14, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Source : AP News Live The pushy Times of India cannot be expected to keep quiet when its cultivated image was called into question by a staid competitor like The Hindu. TOI responded to The Hindu’s brainy teasers with its ‘information is not knowledge’ campaign, which surprisingly is neither witty...

  8. ‘Telangana’ survey on United AP valid

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    / February 13, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Source : AP News Live There was a lot of hue and cry against the findings of  the CNN-IBN & CNBC-TV18 ‘State of the Nation Poll’ conducted by ‘CSDS’ in July 2011 which said that only 50% of people in Telangana region support the division of AP. Now, an independent...

  9. 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....

  10. Hari Menon gives Mammootty a run for ‘Likes’

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    / February 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Mammootty competes closely with fellow superstar Mohanlal in the popularity stakes in Malayalam cinema but when it comes to Facebook, his competitor is Hari Menon. Hari, a freelance photographer posts his extremely captivating photographs on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/#!/harimenonphotography ) and his page is liked by over 1,29,000 people. Mammootty is just...

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