Month: May 2006
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Anderson Cooper
I wasn’t a big fan of Anderson Cooper, until last week. One would have started to notice him just before Katrina. That’s when Aaron Brown’s prime time on CNN was taken back and allocated to Anderson’s 360 show. His Katrina reporting was talked about. I felt, he made animated movements trying to exaggerate the situation.…
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Bappi Lahiri renders the title
Bappi Lahiri renders the title number of Mani Ratnam’s Guru. That’s what you call, comedy. I might take back my words listening to the number.
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Blog – Bug – Ghost !!
There was a bug in the blog. No idea how it was created. No idea how it was resolved. Life goes on. To whichever ghost that screwed up the blog, may the 49.5 % policy be enforced in hell also. And I pray that you should wander around without a single place to rest.
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Kamal Hassan’s shortstory in
Kamal Hassan’s shortstory in Vikatan[28 May 2006] named, Anayaa Neruppu, is a dazzling sample of his story-telling skills. I’m not hinting the story. But it’s a class apart. No jokes. Tell me if you weren’t amazed. P.S – I read it for the second and third time. I’m still amazed. Much more than the first…
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Swadesamitran – The symbol of Tamil journalism
Last week, I was reading a column from Ashokamitran Katuraigal. Asokamitran worked for Swadesamitran, a newspaper of yesteryear Tamil Nadu. He wrote political opinions in a pseudo name, Kinkaran. He describes the doomdays of Swadesamitran as it was struggling to compete with Alai Oosai, another newsdaily. The column was a sensitively written moving account about…
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