Maami on the vulnerability of the ‘beautiful women’, moviegoers ‘fantasise on screen as goddesses’:
A cacophony involving a small- time actress, has allegedly accused many senior actresses of Tamil cinema of running brothels has erupted in Chennai. This “confession” was published in the newspaper carrying photographs of the actresses without verifying or seeking their opinion. Afterall actresses are [...]
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Scandal in Kodambakkam
Published by October 16th, 2009 in Cinema, Media, Patriarchy, Television and Women. 0 CommentsChildren as merchandise
Published by September 21st, 2009 in Children, India and Television. 4 CommentsSmitha shares about how her life revolves around her daugher and wonders as to how parents can voluntarily sign up their children onto programmes like ‘Pati , Patni aur Woh’
How can any parent let their child be part of a programme like this, where their child is left in the hands of couples, who have [...]
Those commercial breaks…
Published by September 12th, 2009 in Consumer, Culture, Media and Television. 0 CommentsAccording to the neo indian, there is no better way to stay in touch with India than by watching television ads.
1. Do your research before you buy gifts for folks in India
2. Smoking increases the likelihood of being picked up by girls
3. “Ending the pregnancy is better than abortion”
4. Feminists agree: Indian women need men [...]
Bringing tobacco to the children via surrogate advertisements
Published by February 5th, 2009 in Children, Health, Media and Television. 1 CommentA lot of youtube videos and independent survey statistics at the India Matters blog expose how the surrogate advertisements are subtly affecting our youth and encouraging them to take up tobacco in some form or the other:
According to research done by the Salaam Bombay Foundation, 3260 children between the age of 12 to 17 years [...]
A series by this name is being aired on PBS. The official blog is here on PBS Engage. Do visit or see the television series:
Wood traveled the Indian subcontinent “seeking in the present for clues to her past, and in the past for clues to her future.” In one episode, Wood explores how the political [...]
Vidya Bhushan Rawat on the insensitivity of the mediapersons who converged on a recent press conference in the capital:
They came in large number with their OB vans, photographers and anchor persons. Much before she could come and join the press, the hall at the Indian Social Institute in Delhi was fully overcrowded. Every body present [...]
Cute furry animals and serious violence
Published by October 5th, 2008 in Children and Television. 0 CommentsAishwarya revisits an old TV show she had liked as a child:
And one of the things I kept wondering as I watched was, how did I survive this series growing up? There’s violence and blood and death (and not the Tom and Jerry sort, where bodies magically reconstitute themselves, this is violence with emotional consequences) [...]
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