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A delightful collection of Amitabh Bachchan’s Hindi movie publicity posters. Wonderful! Treat for the eyes. Broad brush strokes and a hint of green on the cheeks of heroines to make them look fair. (I learnt about this trick from a Billboard painter in Bombay.)
The shift towards printed screens covering Billboards when it comes to movies [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Culture, Music, Film and Art | 5 Comments »
All you budding writers, if Science Fiction be your cup of inter-galactic tea, please head over to the The Scian Science Fiction Short Story Contest 2006.
And yes, I am on the panel. Be nice to me.
Posted on July 31st, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
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I don’t know if this has been out for a while – but NDTV has gotten into user based content generation through NDTV Blogs and Spaces (in Beta). NDTV has been taking the portal route for sometime now. They have dedicated spaces for travel, cooking and health. But NDTV blogs is a whole different game. [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Media, Social Software, Technology and Internet | 4 Comments »
So this Aditya Sinha decides that Omkara is not to his liking. Fine. That’s alright. We all have a right to not like certain movies. Not everyone has a refined taste. However, it’s when reviews like this make an appearance, that I feel like banging my head on more than just thin prefabricated walls. In [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Gender, Media, Music, Film and Art | 15 Comments »
It’s half past twelve at night, and while it is by no means a late hour, I am sleepy. However, before I sleep I must write about Omkara. It’s after really long that I liked a Hindi movie.
Oh and what Hindi it is. Rustic, cow dungish and full of references to things that censors [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Music, Film and Art | 12 Comments »
Thanks to Digital Inspiration, I have the latest version of Google Talk. If you want to know more about this version, that allows for file transfers, voicemails for offline friends and other things to make life easy, please head there. Apparently the download location is different from the standard Google Talk page, however the version [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
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Exactly a year (and two days) ago, I started writing for Global Voices.
I am not going to reflect on the completion of one year. Over at GV, we end up bashing ideas by the day. But more than anything else, I’ve met such incredible people at GV. What a year it’s been!
Posted on July 27th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Global Voices, Self | 5 Comments »
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