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MLTR- Live at Bangalore
Someday, Somewhere, We’ll be together……. To all the people in my life with whom I have lost contact, to everyone I meet everyday during the rush hour but long to spend quality time together, and to everyone who has made a difference to my life…… I dedicate this video that I shot using my mobile [...]
Err-bane Truth
Err-bane truth News to share!!! I along with my friend ( Badekkila Pradeep ) had recently made a short film one of the lost lakes in Bangalore city. The title of the film is Err-bane Truth. I am delighted to let you all know that the short film has won the ‘Lost Lakes of Bangalore’ [...]
Of Rann, Carlton Towers and other things bothering me
Industry: Media Product: News & Entertainment Customer : Citizen (and advertisers?) The Ram Gopal Varma movie RANN, took a dig on electronic media’s unethical practices. Talking point among the tech savvy crowd was suddenly all about the wrong doings of Indian electronic media. My colleague Monica says that ‘Indian electronic media is still in its [...]
Lungi discrimination is history, now it is an untouchable on scooter
Recently, Chennai saw a furor when multiplexes in that city tried to ban entry of people wearing lungi (the traditional garment worn by men across southern India ). This surely was a symbol of ne0-elitism wave in our country. I faced a similar scenario during one of my assignments. But it had nothing to do [...]
Notes From the Field : Chikungunya
Notes From the Field – Nishant Ratnakar Date: Monday, 11th May, 2009. Place: D J Halli near Bangalore. At a locality known as Moulana Compound: "Have any health officials visited your locality since the outbreak?" "No Sir. You are the first outsider to have stepped in here since we noticed the disease in our Compound" [...]
Vatal Does another one
Everybody in Karnataka seems to be cashing in on Valentine’s day and moral policing issue. How can you leave Mr Vatal Nagaraj behind? The man who has ridden over a bull, a cycle, and even attempting to dirty governor house walls:D.Here he was with his latest antics. His act did surprise most of us today. [...]
People in News – Part 1
One of the things with working in a daily newspaper is getting the images of people making the news, especially at the moment they make news!
To Amma
Taarammaiyya, Thandu ThorammaiyyaDoorada Baanige yerida chandrana,Taarammaiyya, Thandu Thorammaiyya Nine of Amma’s (my maternal grandmother was fondly called as Amma by everyone who knew her) children and few of her fortunate grandchildren (including me) have spent their cradle years listening to this Kannada lullaby every night before being rocked into a sound sleep. Amma passed away [...]
HERE IT’S 5 PUSH-UPS FOR EVERY 4
At an ongoing inter-school cricket tournament, the boys of Bishop Cotton School embarked on a novel method to juice themselves up when playing against weak teams: A self-inflicted penalty for every boundary conceded. Narcissistic and full of piss. That is what you normally associate cricketers with, even amateur or budding ones in this cricket-mad nation. [...]