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The one thing that strikes me everytime I attend a GV summit (and this is my third one!) is the sheer level of motivation one derives from meeting strangers. To be able to put a face to an email id and to watch their quirks unfold is delightful. We otherwise tend to border on the [...]
Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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Liveblogging the summit as it unfolds in Budapest. More updates on this post –
Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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Budapest is beautiful. The GV Summit is on in the city, and as always there’s a huge crowd of bloggers, cyber activists and the lot from all over the world. It’s an amazing experience, to walk around the room, trying to master the pronunciation of so many names, putting faces to the urls. The summit [...]
Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Global Voices, Photographs, Travel | 3 Comments »
Brighton was magical. The sun was out, but the wind was blowing in all bloody directions. At 23 miles per hour. (As BBC weather insisted). The sky was blue with white candy floss floating about now and then. I saw a gull swoop on a five year old’s meal and pick up what looked like [...]
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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It’s funny the kind of things that can offend people. Take for this instance this marvelous advert for Heinz Deli Mayo.
I found myself giggling with joy. It’s so rare to see an advert that shows a man doing anything other than gaze admiringly at a car, buy life insurance, spraying deodorant or drinking buckets [...]
Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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Five years of being married, and not having reproduced makes strangers assume a great deal of familiarity. They ask questions about when she was planning on having a child, they told her that children bring a lot of joy in one’s life. It was slightly compounded given the fact that she was pleasantly plump. Old [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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