Emotionally Speaking

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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Some recent films that I have seen and recommend

1. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ZNMD): Absolutely must watch! I watched it twice in the PVR Priya cinema hall. I haven’t had so much fun watching a Hindi film in recent months. Watch it with family and friends.  Great dialogues, great acting especially by Farhan Akhtar and Hrithik. 2. Singham: Good action, tight script and [...]

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DDA Housing Scheme Draw Result 2010: Draw held on 18 April 2011

The lucky draw for the DDA Housing Scheme 2010 was held at Noida today. The DDA site is almost down and you can download the pdf file of results from here if you want to know the results. The PDF file is about 2.3 MB. You can check your results in it. And congratulations if [...]

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Bournvita Quiz Contest: Bring it Back. Join the Facebook page on BQC

This piece is written by Rahul who is one of the people behind the Facebook campaign to bring back the famed TV programme. Please join the Facebook community and do your bit if you want the BQC back like more than 1 Lac people there! Let’s Bring BQC back! I believe most kids plug into the [...]

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Mail Today and HT err in keeping tabs on Twitter followers of popular Indians

I have come across two major instances where Indian newspapers have made an error in reporting the number of Twitter followers for popular Indians. I am also planning to publish a post on instances of plagiarism by the Indian media/newspapers that I keep running into while surfing the internet/blogs. Mail Today says Priyanka first Indian [...]

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Urdu Hai Jiska Naam: Get a free DVD set on the story of the Urdu Language

Update/Addendum [10 November 2009]: This thing no more works and the post has been suitably edited. I have been informed by the Office of the concerned OSD, MEA that it is for the circulation in embassies and missions abroad among other things including the promotion of our secular credentials. The news had spread by word [...]

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