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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

mumbai terrorist attack
And so it happened one not so fine day that the LeT men came from across the states ...across the borders to startle punish and murder innocent people in Mumbai. horrific as the stories via the media and public attentions( aftermath) what rose up from the ashes were the pure strengths of each individual who called themselves mumbaikars.Andso it happened that ... murderous fanatic intents were not fanned into religious bigoted mindset for- can- be- manipulated- citizens- perhaps ... instead muslim and hindu ( targetted communities) joined their souls together in one voice of united brotherhood. it must have surely kicked the pakis in their balls, or even say the al-qaeda, or the mujahideen LeT ... when Indian muslims refused to be victims again and again for what they dont think is jihad. for ones who lost their loved ones ...did not believe he or she would find a place with Allah, but as deserving would have gone someplace else.The much divided and divisioned sainiks in their newer fragmented avatar as nav nirman sena and the originals had somehow lost their hooligan bluster and nary a word was said ( in the media ofcourse - for many a stupid politician had already lost their heads ( literally...congress and ncp) in a singular wariness not really expected of them. my question while these sainiks go on once a month ( if lucky) rampage where were they when the kasab's of hell were killing manoos for a lark! well... i can say to myself dream on!However, out of the stories galore that gave way after the gruesome affairs were done away with- 11 dead terrorist and one caught. The one that really caught my fancy was the story of the one man who celebrated life after death - nopes not what you think. He not only got the government money of Rs 5 lakhs for the death of his adulterous wife - he got to see the terrified shaking paramour of his wife ( his own bro) come out of the TAJ .... red handed. while the rest cried ...the cuckolded husband cheered!Cheers!
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Thursday, June 19, 2008

and its so boring
and its so boring to read about sainiks from one limited place to another wanting to create identities amongst their own people - India. so by far and large is losing Her 'unity in diversity' culture to destructive human viruses, pervading in the guise of religion, caste, community and class ... a general malfunction of our elected dinosuars.hate in Maharashtra via via the sainiks can be understood myopically, but, i lived it more recently in GOA, (the land of sun and all things exciting for the senses) is a cultivated thing of the past. Goans prefer being Portuguese as everything Indian. every regression that infrastructure and development ( aka population) brings to Goa ...its pointed as an Indian thing - outsiders.When i did a programme on AIDS and how its inviegled its way into the middle class homes and the young generation (109 full blown deaths bet 2005 to 2008 ) - everyone pointed out to the Migrant labourers. did they like understand my question or subject or have the migrant labourers reached their homes and hearth?what about the paedophilia and prostitution rackets that has overtaken goa in the name of tourism? is that an indian thing or foreign or once again a migrant affliction? methinks and knows it all Goan and just that! and thats not all..... the susegaad goans believe that 500 years of the portuguese slavery here was much better than getting their independent status as Indians. ' i speak portuguese...i am learning a foreigh language 'portuguese'... am off to a foreign country this vacation - portugal... no, i dont speak hindi' is common.all these things get vocal when you live there ...if you are holidaying, you would only be aware of how much they fleece you and nothing more. its all there until you decide to take off your rose tinted glasses about goa and you will see it even as you decide to swim the clear waters of ths beautifully stagnant place. needless to say i love goa .... even now. ok ok... i did meet a lot of wonderful people too and most of them have taken off for elsewhere. they know about their society and would rather hide in their shells. i got sick of it all their dulplicity and crab mentality but mostly their unpatriotic attitude. and then if i have to get back to the rest of the other indians ....hate is still seeping in but its more political. it will not really really reach our hearths (touchwood!)till then ... for the Mh situation and hindu human bomb squads, the leaders voicing it should know ' charity begins at home'.
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controverShe

a journalist ...one who likes to burn her shoe - soles, hounding out news.
am honest about everything i do and state. money cannot buy me out nor can any threats ...when i see something that needs to be addressed, i will go cover it, whatever the cost. the cost has sometimes been 'jobs' for me. but then, its all worked out in a good way, i have gone ahead and tried my hand at multiple media and even public relations ... aka mediacom and wloce. it was not my forte to grovel and smile - as was the prime PR job requirement. but, yes, i learnt about making business plans and media strategies thanks to the above mentioned job.

and then, ofcourse, i have now started working on project basis for a whole lot of foreign media companies - american, british and european. am not always the reporter, but i also work as a fixer, local producer and as a translator. View my complete profile

the companies have been:
ZDF german television
Chicago Herald Tribune
Chicago Business News
ABC
National Geographic Magazine
New York Times Sunday Magazine
Hysteria Films
ANI
The Asian Age
B4U.com
indiainfo.com
3xus.com
the Free Press Journal
Society

and these are not all.
but then, some say i am a rolling stone. am one that has gathered 'moss' of informations, learnt multiple skills, can communicate in any language (not literally, though i speak 7 indian languages) and most of all never go 'hungry' - for informations or food!