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Archive for November, 2008

This is not over yet. the pictures(from the web the first few are flickr photographs- unpublished) are dramatic. the inserted news report seems to symbolize Mumbai…which took it in the gut on behalf of  Western Civilization.

Staff emerge as heroes in Mumbai hotel sieges
Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:07am EST

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By Krittivas Mukherjee
MUMBAI (Reuters) – [...]

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“The Muezzin  in the tower of darkness cries.
Fools your reward is neither here nor there.”
:                                             – Omar Khayyam (Rubiyat)
The financial crisis is over.
The sea came in and took over our little thriving ecological backwater.
Everything is owned by the government. The government has not exactly started telling us  who will make profits and how much, [...]

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Danny Boyle’s new film Slumdog millionaire is made in Mumbai on the sets of the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Based on a novel by Vikas Swarup, the film takes us through the life of a tea delivery boy at a call center,  that lives in the slums of Mumbai, and [...]

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The Zeitgeist, is a classical music one. These links have some remarkably good films about Indian classical musicians and music. Most are un subtitled, but music, they  say ,damn them! needs no language.
Particularly notable are the documentaries on Drupad by Mani Kaul.(can someone find me part 3 please?) , A profile of Papanasam sivan(which [...]

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um..Boo?

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