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BBC restricts access to historical Indian content

August 2, 2007 – 4:39 pm

The Beeb is opening its archives on India and Pakistan on the occasion of 60 years of India and Pakistan’s independence. Among the archives, I’m told, is rare radio footage. It’s a closed archive trial, and being a history buff, I thought I’d sign up for it. Then came the shocker: Access to the archives […]

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On the editorial reasoning behind TV’s entertainment focus

April 19, 2007 – 3:43 pm

At at time when every f’in news channel is focusing on the wedding of two Bollywood stars - even CNBC-TV18 had updates yesterday…ridiculous - here’s someone who tells it as it is:
Most channels fill up airtime based on a series of assumptions that some smart management cookie dishes out to gullible television programmers, producers and […]

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Those dumb questions…

April 29, 2006 – 12:03 pm

Sevanti Ninan’s The Hoot takes apart the Indian TV News Media’s tiresome coverage of the Pramod Mahajan crisis in Those Dumb Questions.
My favourite is:
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 […]

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What does ‘creative’ mean to you?

January 27, 2006 – 5:10 pm

Languages change: they grow, diversify and adapt. Like people. Gay referred to things bright and pleasant once. Chutney was only a Hindi word once. I remember being told in school that Hindi evolved as the common mans language, and eventually took over from Sanskrit because Sanskrit did not change or evolve. English survives and grows […]

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