Commentary
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Death Of A Great Brand Or Birth Of A Greater Brand?
Change is good. Definitely. Hutch is now Vodafone. Good? Not very sure. More than its SIM cards made it into our mobile phones, Hutch – the brand, had made its way into our hearts. Not entirely impossible, but it will be very difficult for Vodafone to replace Hutch. Let’s see. We’ll let the brand do Continue reading
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Filmosophy
Apart from those well spent 2-3 hours, one of the best things about watching movies is that one discovers interesting connections between the characters in the movie philosophers. In A Fish Called Wanda, Otto‘s favourite philosopher is Nietzsche. In Little Miss Sunshine, Frank is America’s Number 1 Proust scholar. [Marcel Proust] And Dwyane is shown Continue reading
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The Root Cause Of All Evil
To read the Kannada text, please download the Kannada font from here and install it. Had this moment of realization while traveling through the dry green (now, because of the rain) fields of North Karnataka, that the root cause of all evil is the tongue. Like all of Shri Purandaradasa’s padas (¥ÀzÀUÀ¼ÀÄ), the greatness of Continue reading
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What’s This Stupid Internet Thing? Shut It Down
Sir Elton John wants the internet to be shut down. And pray, why is he singing this tune? In his own words – “The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t Continue reading
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For Shrimati Sonia Gandhi and her co(terie)
Related post – All The Presidents Were Men Related not as in brother-in-law or someone‘s husband. Well, not really. Continue reading
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The Long Tail in radio
I’m no rocket scientist(I’ve never wanted to be one), or an economist(which I’ve sometimes wanted to be) or a social scientist(which I want to be), but one doesn’t need to be any of the above to figure this out. For Jaane Do Na from Cheeni Kum, Illayaraja uses one of his earlier compositions, Jothe Jotheyali Continue reading
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All The Presidents Were Men
Ah yes, tried playing on this. As I cleared my Deep Throat, I felt the definite need for it. With our Presidential election having come down to the streets, we, the villagers of Domlur couldn’t be far away from it. Now that there looks to be a distinct possibility of Shrimati Pratibha Patil Shekhawat becoming Continue reading
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Alive and kicking rain water.
I’m totally alive, reminded of it by the innumerable near-life experiences! Lots to be written, but here’s something to see! In ancient times, people used to write letters and drop them in these boxes and they would be physically delivered. Silly people, no? Interesting that e-mail clients use the Post Office Protocol, generally known as Continue reading
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Dressed and Confused(DBCAs)
‘Open 24 hours’. In a fast-moving, never-sleeping,maximum city like Mumbai, one would expect such a thing to be written at a restaurant close to a railway station or more likely at a guest-house. But much to my amusement, I found this written across seemingly firm bosom of a mannequin at a Mega-Mart outlet in the Continue reading
Nikhil Kulkarni 