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TV and social obligations

By debashish • Mar 6th, 2004 • Category: Entertainment

Talking of Television in the Indian context there are clearly two divisions. On one side there is the state-owned Doordarshan (DD) and on the other lies the herd of satellite TV channels. The distinction off course is in the very way they function. DD has been, traditionally,  the mouth-piece of the ruling party, serving its filthy [...]



When DD animated lives!

By debashish • Jan 15th, 2004 • Category: Entertainment

I had my childhood nourishment of entertainment from Vividh Bharati and Doordarshan so this post of Turbanhead revived old memories. The “Ek Anek” short animation film was targeted at National integration and was used as filler by DD at that time and, thanks to the fact that satellite TV wasn't even there, was immensely popular. [...]



Mirrror, Mirror of my blog

By debashish • Jan 14th, 2004 • Category: Entertainment

Chakra provided this cool link that creates a mirror of your website, literally. Though I already have a mirror at blogspot, have a look at the one created by this trick. Now the trick is adding “.mirror.sytes.org” to the domain name of your URL .



Meandering ways, again

By debashish • Jan 8th, 2004 • Category: Entertainment

Whenever I encounter any strange behaviour on my referrer list (which, thanks to Paris Hilton, are no more public now) I usually add it to my list of “funny referers”. Here is the latest list for you to savor, my favorite being the Neena Gupta one
aircrafts videos crashedWhy do singletons prefer Mumbai? “indian [...]



Blogs dramatized!

By debashish • Dec 11th, 2003 • Category: Entertainment

Ye duniya ek rangmanch hai Babu-moshai! (the world is a theatre, my dear bong). How can our blogs be less theatrical then! Alok pointed to this ingenious site that adds that quintessential spice of melodrama to your blog. Just type your URL here and your blog is hilariously converted to a Hollywood screenplay, instantly. Samples? [...]



Rewrite the song Remo!

By debashish • Dec 3rd, 2003 • Category: Entertainment

Remo Fernandes, the famous pop-singer from Goa has once sung this famous satirical song on the state of telephones in Goa:

Graham Bell, Graham Bell,
You're dead and its just as well;
But if you saw the phones in Goa.
You'd jump into the well.
Years later, it seems Remo will have to rewrite his lyrics as the BBC reports [...]



Meandering ways

By debashish • Nov 5th, 2003 • Category: Entertainment

Life has meandering ways. You never know which way would lead to what destination, atleast that's what Googling often lets you decipher. Savour these recent funny search strings that lead people to this blog.

housewives looking for fun in Navi Mumbai
pressures and pains extra marital affairs
labour politics inside zara
hindi movies +love scenes [...]



Bush has a Blog

By debashish • Oct 18th, 2003 • Category: Entertainment

Believe it or not President Bush has a Blog too.



Bush rivals Vajpayee : On Poetic turf

By debashish • Oct 6th, 2003 • Category: Entertainment

You may scream, you may laugh,You might even shudder in dismay,But Atalji now has a new rival,As Bush becomes a poet while laura was away.



NDTV's dilemma

By debashish • Oct 1st, 2003 • Category: Entertainment

Hindi has been a weak spot at NDTV, the skipper Pronnoy himself knows very little of it and his turks including Rajdeep Sardesai, Arnab Goswami, Barkha Dutt and Abhhigyan Prakash just manage to speak tuti-phuti Hindi only when in dire need. Yet NDTV was in a dilemma to start a lateral Hindi channel when its [...]