Yesterday I was invited to be one of the panellists on BBC’s “World Have Your Say” on a show about the Big Brother and the Gandhi Youtube controversy.(If you want to listen to the program, look at the right hand sidebar of this page, find the “Listen Again” tab and click on the Thursday link. The audio file will be there only till next Thursday i.e. January 25, 2007).
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ShareA paragraph from today’s Times of India which I found very informative:
Coach Greg Chappell even showed Uthappa how to it with deft body movements. Ganguly, however, provided thrills galore to the thousand-odd, including a bunch of giggly schoolgirls, who had gathered to watch the Indians practice.
With Guru Greg teaching the juniors some of the finer technical points and Dada getting back his voracious appetite, I think Team India is looking “good to go” after a long time.
In an unrelated article (but equally interesting):
Not many though would have bet on Shilpa surviving so long after watching her debut in Shah Rukh Khan’s Baazigar (1993). Some felt her mouth was too wide it kind of evoked comparisons with the shark in Finding Nemo later. Others said, she badly needed a nose job.
How polite. With friends like these, who needs Big Brother housemates?
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The “Rang De Basanti” effect on the collective consciousness of the nation was evident once again today as Gen X gadget-activists came out in full force SMS-ing, emailing and online-petitioning in support of Shilpa Shetty, the subject of vile racial abuse on UK’s Big Brother.
Neha Hingorani represents this new-age awakened citizen. A far cry from the khadi-clad Gandhi topiwala from yesteryears, we find her sitting in the lounge of a multiplex, working furiously on her Motorola Razr sending SMS-s to all her friends and to public polls on all the TV channels.
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Unless you spend all your time reading books or watching the mating lives of walruses on the Animal Planet (as opposed to those of beautiful people), you surely must know that the “will they won’t they” Aishwarya-Abhishek relationship recently became “Yes they will” much to the joy of a whole nation. Rarely since Rama vanquished Ravana has there been such celebration in the world of monkeys.
In Bhubaneswar, a voluntary organisation Kalinga Sena, organised a demonstration and burnt the effigy of Gautam Prasad.
“His (Mahatma Gandhi) disgrace is India’s disgrace, the disgrace of one billion people of India. We are staging a protest against Gautam and we demand capital punishment for him,” said Kalinga Sena President Hemanth Rath.
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