Bar dancers ban: The Life After

For the past few weeks Sonia Faleiro has compiled a series of articles for Tehelka on the life of bar dancers after the ban. This concluding article sums up all the pathos. The articles are also posted on her blog* and you can find links to them in this article which is the last profile in the series.


*As an aside, Tehelka allows journalists working for them to post articles on their blogs but for some convoluted refuses to open up their online edition..I think it is one of the stupidest things that they have ever done. Suhail's very well written Open Letter to Tehelka also raises this point but they haven't mended their shop yet.

CNBC picks up the IIPM story.

CNBC TV18 today carried a story which had an interview with the UGC chief who said that IIPM's ads are "misleading". Surprisingly however, there was no mention of Gaurav Sabnis, Rashmi Bansal, IBM etc etc. In essence what they reported was just a part of the story. The whole truth is out there..but only in the blogosphere. Now is IIPM going to sue CNBC? :-)

UPDATE: Apparently there is truth also on some of the news sites like NDTV, Business Standard. Check here for the links, but I am not sure if anybody other than CNBC TV18 has carried the story on TV.

UPDATE2: http://rga.blogspot.com/2005/10/weekend-adventures.html
tells that CNBC did mention desipundit and had an interview with Rashmi Bansal during "the tech show".

A new era

Today marks the dawn of a new era. I have shrugged away 5 almost 4.5 yrs or lethargy and finally started calculated gambling err..investing some money in the stock market :)!! Hurray! Thanks to Nabajit to guided me through the web site (ICICIDirect). While the stock that I have bought is marginally down just hours after the epoch making transaction :) the hope is to cash in on a (1:1) bonus, the record date (see how I have started slipping in the money jargon :)) for which has been fixed for Nov 14th. I hope this era is that of prosperity!!