Category: Uncategorized
-
Super Singer – This week
Vijay TV’s Super Singer was a mess-up this week. – The show organisers formed three groups, Chennai, Kovai and Madurai. Each had five participants. – On Friday, one from each group was eliminated except for the Chennai group. – Harish, one of the best singers in the whole competition, from the Chennai team, walked out…
-
Vijay TV’s Super Singer
Yet another show on the American Idol format. First it was Indian Idol and now it’s Vijay TV’s Airtel Super Singer contest. The winner of this super singer contest will get a chance to sing for Harris Jayaraj. The show runs from 8 pm every friday and saturday on Vijay TV. Believe me this show…
-
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.…
-
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…
-
Ganesh – Vasant strike back !!
[Vikatan] When I had mailed Sujatha on his birthday, he replied with a news for me. He said there will be a series *ing Ganesh – Vasant, soon on Vikatan. Never knew it will be so soon. I do know he is writing Saagasam Aayiram in Kalki but couldn’t read it since I don’t have…