Emotionally Speaking

Hindi poem in handwriting

This famous Hindi poem by Harivansh Rai Bachchan is on the theme of encouragement. This is a snapshot of the poem in my handwriting and it was done in 2009 or 2010. This Hindi poem is about inspiration, struggle, fighting, working against all odds, the brave wins, hard work, dreaming and working hard to achieve [...]

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Don’t buy from Bag it Today or India Today

Bag it today from the India today Group is a bad online shopping option if you have been influenced by their ads or spam messages. Someone I know had ordered this shoe (see image) from them and got a black colour, poor quality shoes! India today group has earlier sent poor prints of good books [...]

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Farhan Akhtar in Delhi Police ad

Farhan Akhtar has given his voice (and image) to Delhi Police exhorting people to ‘be man enough’ to join him to make Delhi safer for women. The ad is good but again the emphasis on manhood is misplaced. Delhi Police has another ad in which it declares males as ‘not mard’ when they don’t help [...]

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Funny political cartoon in Hindu

With the election season gripping India, the Hindu Cartoonscape has a good cartoon on the election tamasha in Uttar Pradesh (UP). It employs the Kolaveri theme and shows various contenders (Rahul, Mayawait, BJP, Mulayam ) chanting their mantra for votes. See the image, the Hindu dated 1 Feb 2012:

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Don’t miss the Hindu-TOI ad war

Anyone who loves newspapers and knowing about them would not have missed the recent Hindu-TOI advertisements directed at each other. It all started when a Times of India, Chennai mocked Hindu in its video ad TVC for being soporific. The Hindu retorted with a funny TVC (said to be inspired by DNA AfterHrs ad) which [...]

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‘Downloading books’ is a popular search term on the web

This site gets some good traffic due to some search terms in Google related to downloading books, downloading ebooks, gigapedia, library . nu, best sites for downloading books, jstor free access etc. . With the SOPA/PIPA threat, megaupload  shutdown, the trend of searching free books or files on the web may only increase. These are [...]

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