Emotionally Speaking

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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Maiden Bollywood Flash Mob in Helsinki, Finland

Not many Indians know that the love of Bollywood and Indian culture and things has smitten many Finns. I know many (including one of my best friends) who love the Indian films, food, music and culture. Recently, Finalnd (Helsinki) added to the list of rising Bolly flash mobs in India and abroad. A number of [...]

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The funny political ads of Congressman H Vasanthakumar

H Vasanthakumar, a Congress political personality from South India is someone readers of Hindu newspaper cannot forget. Very often he takes out front page newspaper advertisement ridiculously praising the Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Very recently (Sunday, January 1, 2012, Delhi edition) he took out a full page ad “we remain madamji at your feet” , [...]

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Poem on Anna Hazare

The following Hindi poem on Anna Hazare has been written by JNU Student Rashwet Shrinkhal. The poem praises Anna Hazare and points out how the crusader is helping the nation. This poem was his response to a critical poem lampooning Anna Hazare on the net (Read the negative poem on Jairam Shukla’s blog) Excerpts: मैं [...]

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