Month: June 2004
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World Themes for Indian Cinema (Part 4 of 8)
Co-Blogging Series – Anand C and Lazy Geek ‘ART FOR ART”S SAKE’ “If I worship thee for fear of hell, burn me in hell; if I worship thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship thee for thy own sake, grudge me not thy everlasting beauty!” This hymm from Sufi…
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Mani Ratnam and the “relative grading” syndrome!
Guest Blog 14 – Anand C Good students are good students in the Indian education system, regardless of how well others perform. You get “first class” if you have 60%. Simple! However in the American educational system you could get a ‘B’ if you got 60% and half the class scored higher than you. On…
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Coffee day, makes my day !!
I’ve been an obsessive compulsive coffee lover throughout. I am one among the many south indians tamils who are addicted to the filter coffee culture. So what happens ? Invariably, I spend more time to decide on the coffee mix. So everytime we need to get filter coffee powder from shop, I give more instructions…
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What makes NEWS?
Guest Blog 13 – Anand C I’ve wondered how news is prioritized and given preference and how they choose what is repeated again and again on 24-hour news channels. (Case in point: The same weekend that Britney Spears went through her “one-day” wedding in Las Vegas, NASA’s Rover landed had its historic Mars landing. It’s…
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Madras Blogger Meet 2004 – Pictures
Pictures of Madras Blogger Meet 2004 with Thumbnails (Based on Popular Request). P.S: My domain’s bandwidth has doubled since yesterday. From 300+ MB in 7 days, it went on to 650 MB in just one day. With only 6GB bandwidth for a month allowed by bloghosts for my domain, I might probably move the pics…
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