- Mere paas film star hai: how useless film stars are for democracy
Apart from Sunil Dutt (Congress), Shatrughan Sinha (BJP) and to some extent Vinod Khanna (BJP), NTR and MGR in South few film stars have managed to translate their popularity to a lasting political career.
In 20…
Topic: Films, Indiaelections2009, Celebrity | Read more
- Cometh the elections, cometh the slogans
Those who write the slogans on the walls (may God have mercy on them]) and on the posters and whose words are repeated through loudspeakers during campaigning season are the unsung micro-Haiku poet/heroof modern India.
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Topic: Indiaelections2009, Slogans | Read more
- Brahmins in Indian Politics
We have had quite a few Brahmin Prime Ministers, starting with Nehru and then his descendents. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the last Brahmin minister and looking at the existing political candidates and the trends, there wil…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Caste, Trends | Read more
- What may happen after these elections
These are early times for a democracy. If America is our template, as it is in most things for the educated middle class, then a two-party system, one party slightly left-of-centre, one-slightly right, will be best, but …
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Predictions | Read more
- Predictions for the 2009 general elections from Arun Nehru
During every major election, Arun Nehru, who was a Minister during Rajiv Gandhi's time does his predictions. His predictions for 2009 elections are in. The Deccan Chronicle carries the table, from which this image has …
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- Predictions: No clear front-runner in the 2009 elections so far
The Hindu reports that both AC Nielsen and CSDS polls are inconclusive. Moreover, it is worth keeping in mind that opinion polls are not what they used to be. People might say one thing to pollsters and do the opposite…
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- Fan Clubs ijn South India and Elections
These are excerpts from an older blog post written by Gopala Ravindran, but worth reading if you are interested to know what is it about the numerous fan clubs and exotic sycophancy in South India:
Fan clubs in Tamil Na…
Topic: Films, Electionsindia2009, Tamil politics, Fan clubs | Read more
- Using Tata Nano for election posturing
This blogger says the success (?) of Tata Nano is yet another slap for Mamata Banerjee's posturing at Singur which drove Tata out of West Bengal:
The blogger writes,
In the end, the market prevailed. Tata built…
Topic: Tata nano, Policy, Indiaelections2009 | Read more
- A simpleguide to General Elections 2009 in India
The 15th Lok Sabha Elections 2009 will take place in 5 phases, on April 16, 23, 30, May 7 and 13, and the new Central government will take office in New Delhi on June 2, 2009.
There are four major political groups vyi…
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- A Roundup of online presence of indian politicians and political parties
One place where the BJP does fulfill its self-given mandate of being the party with a difference is the online media. The party and its politicians are way ahead of other Indian politicians in using online media to sprea…
Topic: Internet and Websites, Indiaelections2009 | Read more
- A Roundup of Digital Marketing Campaigns during the elections so far
More than 10,000 crore Rupees will be spent by politicians during the General Elections 2009. That is $ 2 billion. One thing is sure though: the public may not benefit in the long run, marketers, mobile companies, tv cha…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Marketing | Read more
- Myspace versus Facebook, Revisited
The Compete Blog reports more about the Myspace vs. Facebook comparison story:
If you’re MySpace, the graph below certainly stings – in the past two years, average stay for a visitor to the site has dropped from 30 m…
Topic: Myspace, Facebook, Social networking | Read more
- Tiger Woods: most overpaid sportsperson returns to save an over-expensive sport
They had to bring Tiger Woods, surely one of the world's most overpaid sportsperson to save the business of Golf Sports. More than a decade back, somebody wrote that the money spent on Golf could teach poor kids of the w…
Topic: Overmarketing, Golf, Tigerwoods | Read more
- Is Bobby Jindal the next Sarah Palin?
Going by his response to Barrack Obama's State of the Union Address, Jindal can sure lay claim to the post of "Moron in Chief". Sample of his views: Jindal believes that monitoring potentially lethal volcanic eruptions w…
Topic: Moronic, U.S. Politics, Bobbyjindal | Read more
- The most expensive and useless vacuum cleaner in the world
The Crystal Ergoripado vacuum cleaner costs €15,000. Made from recycled parts, is created by a Polish designer and is encrusted with 3,730 Swarovski crystals and there is only on sale. Each item about this news shouts o…
Topic: Moronic, Gadgets, Vaccumcleaner | Read more
- The most unfortunate names in the English World
This story in BBC says Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Stan Still are the three most unfortunate names in England. People with these names have been found to be plain unlucky.
Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7909561…
Topic: News You Could Do Without, Names | Read more
- The most empathetic fitness trainer in the world
According to the Daily Mail in England, a trainer has decided to put on weight to identify with overweight clients. In these times of recession, he does not want to hurt the self-esteem of potential clients and send them…
Topic: Health, Fitness, Empathy | Read more
- Coming soon: road rules for personal helicopters
There is this $35,000 Japanese helicopter, which is said to be the world's smallest helicopter, able to carry one person. At that price, and considering there are millions of potential buyers, congestion in the skies can…
Topic: News You Could Do Without, Gadgets, Flying | Read more
- Cooltools: Create your own Obama bailout cheque
This seems to be a season of fake cheque generators. If the recession is making you feel tiny in your seat, create your bailout cheque from the Bank of Obama. Carry it as a badge on your blazer, laminate it or whatever.
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Topic: Internet and Websites, Cooltools, Obama, Bailout, Money | Read more
- Cooltools: Generate your own Adsense income
If you cannot make money with Adsense like Shoemoney, Engadget, Problogger or other heavy hitters, worry not. Use the Adsense Income Generator to create screenshots of fake Adsense cheques to impress your friends.
lin…
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