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Independent Scholar. Polymath. Thinks ahead of time. Insights go spaces human minds are yet to explore. Innovator. Imaginator. Problem Solver. Enterprise Developer.

Dev Anand – Eternally Young or Trapped in Time?

Posted on December 6, 2010 by secondsaturn

Cine Durbar was once again instrumental in organizing through the IFFI, a panorama of Naveketan films to celebrate 60 years of the film producing company owned by Dev Anand. Mr Dev Anand was himself present as a bonus for the … Continue reading →

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Modern High School – Selected Memories

Posted on December 1, 2010 by secondsaturn

When my mother decided to pull me out of my exhilarating bliss as a student in South Point into Modern High School, a long and tedious sentence started in my life as the condemned Sisyphus. I joined MHS in Class … Continue reading →

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Murder of CEO

Posted on December 1, 2010 by secondsaturn
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Ma, Mati Manush

Posted on December 1, 2010 by secondsaturn

Mamata’s Politics – Reign of Terror Or The French Revolution? susmita.dasgupta@hotmail.com On a rain lashed morning, hemmed in by a garbage strewn muddy road of a colony in a NCR suburb and marooned by water logged stretches of the posh … Continue reading →

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Dear Shri Ratan Tata

Posted on December 1, 2010 by secondsaturn

New Delhi. 18th October 2008 Dear Mr Ratan Tata, This letter to you is in response to Mr Modi’s letter to the Buddhababu and yours to the youth of Bengal written over the past week. Sometime back I saw full … Continue reading →

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Dear Mr Chidambaram

Posted on December 1, 2010 by secondsaturn

Surajkund NCR, Haryana 7th January 2009 The Honorable Home Minister Government of India New Delhi Respected Shri Chidambaramji, I am writing this letter to you in a state of extreme grief and shock. This morning (7.1.09) at 3.44 am I … Continue reading →

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Nirole Report – September 27th 2010

Posted on November 30, 2010 by secondsaturn

18/25 Dover Lane, 1st October 2010 Dear Boromama, Mejomani, Sejomani, Nomama, Chhotomama, Bachi, Ma and Bulimashi, I was in Nirole on the night of the 27th September and returned in the morning of the 28th of September 2010. I stayed … Continue reading →

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Break Ke Baad – Impudent Chauvinism

Posted on November 29, 2010 by secondsaturn

Sometimes I get appalled at the decisions of the Censor Board of India. They are overly concerned with sex, violence and smoking on screen, often take these scenes out of their context and assume that the frames containing such “contraband … Continue reading →

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Bollywood-isation of the Hindi Formula Film – Changing Cinema For Changing Times

Posted on November 26, 2010 by secondsaturn

Today the Hindi commercial cinema is known as Bollywood rhymed with Hollywood, a name by which the American film industry is known. Hollywood is a neighbourhood in Los Angeles, in the state of California in the USA, which has a … Continue reading →

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Media In A Liberalized Economy – A Watchdog or Perpetrator of Myths?

Posted on November 26, 2010 by secondsaturn

The modern world is witnessing a media revolution. Never before has human history seen such proliferation of investments across the world into television channels, advertisements and broadcasting. It appears that investing into a country’s media properties is lucrative business for … Continue reading →

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