This happened last week. I met Mr. Salim, the manager
of Shalimar cinema, and was simply chatting with him.
(He was really cold last time, but opened up this
time). So apart from other things, the conversation
boiled down to ?why was I not getting married?
?), very
obviously. (of course, I could have stopped and run
away, but wanted to see the fun).
So he gave numerous
him, you must get married.[ A woman is meant to serve
only, according to the Quran---was his explanation].
Of course, he would not be interested in listening to
my side of the story.
Going, going, going, the monologue boiled down to
Islam as a religion. His many reasoning--- simplest
religion, ?no one goes away once converted to Islam?
,
?Hindus worship the sun, but it does set down; some
world, 2 are Muslims, because the procedures are
the Quran, it is available in translation, Be open to
the idea (I was waiting for this to happen, but not so
soon), Get married, there?s no happiness and
Anyways, he asked me about my father?
s occupation. ?He
Kalbadevi?
, I replied. He assumingly said that he
would not be earning more than 6-7000. (Oh my
gawd!
!!!
, how could he say such a thing, we are
Well, all this time, I was thinking of the duality of
two different systems and their values, one that
secularism, liberalism etc etc; as against his values-
comment about our financial statues was a real turner.
I now wanted to find a chance to look down upon him,
and I was lucky that day. He was about to leave for
home, and I saw his very ?
purana? scooter with the
side guard (which was old and rotten iron patra, and
I was glad I could look down upon him, forgetting
happened to our freedom fighters. Guess that?
s how we
got our freedom?
Bhai, is baar main pakka gunahgaar hoon..
.nikalte nikalte mujhe laga
ki der to ho chuki hai magar baharhaal ise daal hi deta hoon, na sahi
haazri, aagahi to hogi..
as a classical poet and Gulzar Dehlavi, hailing from
Today at Aiwan-e Ghalib, 11 am.
the city.
Dear Shankar and Jeebesh,
the workers' struggle.
As a real life Swades, with Shankar arriving here as an academic,
As a post-historic comment on the unresolved dead-end in Aaghaat,
workers and an aberration when committed by the workers.
As a glorious affirmation to the mail Jeebsh wrote, a mail which one
can call admonitory if not chastising, on the occasion of the whole
Gurgaon, a few months ago.
As a unique triumph of a strategy of protest and resistance, conceived
organiser and the toiling worker merge their roles into each other.
workers in this our belighted land.
working condition, as Shankar had pointed out in his photographic
essay in Tehelka, but it is not an end of their journey.
say about it all.
..
Chalte raho saathi, doobte suraj ko raah dikhaane ke liye, taaki use
Devi, were appointed this week as permanent employees
of Michael Aram's new, operational company, MA Design
They received appointment letters in hand, along with
back wages, bonuses, dearness allowance arrears, and
other due payments, on January 25, 2006.
former unit, B156, or else at a proximate and as yet
Dear Shankar and Jeebesh,
the workers' struggle.
As a real life Swades, with Shankar arriving here as an academic,
As a post-historic comment on the unresolved dead-end in Aaghaat,
workers and an aberration when committed by the workers.
As a glorious affirmation to the mail Jeebsh wrote, a mail which one
can call admonitory if not chastising, on the occasion of the whole
Gurgaon, a few months ago.
As a unique triumph of a strategy of protest and resistance, conceived
organiser and the toiling worker merge their roles into each other.
workers in this our belighted land.
working condition, as Shankar had pointed out in his photographic
essay in Tehelka, but it is not an end of their journey.
say about it all...
Chalte raho saathi, doobte suraj ko raah dikhaane ke liye, taaki use
Devi, were appointed this week as permanent employees
of Michael Aram's new, operational company, MA Design
They received appointment letters in hand, along with
back wages, bonuses, dearness allowance arrears, and
other due payments, on January 25, 2006.
former unit, B156, or else at a proximate and as yet
between Mumbai and Dilli, or between head and heart respectively! I
the city I belong to.
I graduated from St. Stephen's College having
titled THE TIGHTROPE WALKER (35mm, 15mins, Hindi) which made it in
competition to Venice in 2000. The film was an experimental short on
the anonymous life and (imagined?
) love of a young woman who lives in
a suburban highrise in Bombay. I followed this up in 2001 with one of
the country's first digital feature films titled DIVYA DRISHTI (DVC,
95mins, Hindi) which was banned by the then censor board owing to
a niche of its own being screened at various festivals (Singapore,
Commonwealth, Karachi etc) and museums (Walker Art Centre, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Nova Cinema etc). Currently I have finished my debut
"multiplex" film, if you will, a supernatural thriller titled AMAVAS
starring Konkona Sensharma, Victor Banerjee and others.
The film
should be released by mid 2006. I also make documentaries and most
Hampi for UNESCO.
look at the city differently.
Hanging out at Safdarjung, Aurobindo
colonies. I realized that I had taken them for granted to such an
within. A few trips made were enough to get my juices flowing and soon
the germ of an idea took place in my mind.
Delhi unlike Bombay was an urban city with space for clandestine love.
Mosques and mausoleums, tombs and temples dotted the city and in turn
granite. Who were these secret lovers, what was there story, for
surely they had a story to tell, and by extension, there must be
sites.
..I decided to weave a contemporary clandestine love story among
film differently.
Some years ago I had the good fortune of seeing
Marker called the film a photoroman. The film was so influential that
Bar also exists in Tokyo! I came up with the decision to make my film
And that is where SARAI/CSDS thankfully came in.
My research is
ostensibly on "excavating" the various stories, myths, legends, folk
into the text books. So if any of you have any bizarre, grotesque,
cute, strange and downright fascinating stories to tell about nooks
and corners and gullies and gates in Delhi please inform me. Also, if
put me on to them.
I look forward to hearing from you and wish all of
you all the very best with ur proposed research...
Along with a paper I am planning to make an audio-documentary.
For taking interviews and field-recordings I use tape-recorder. But
cassette.
So, I'm looking for a digital recorder with computer
connectivity. Please, let me know about any such device, which is
handy, reasonable and easy to operate. Let me tell you one thing more
that I am visually challenged.
So please see if any device is
available with key-beeps as we have in mobile phones. Because the
things which I've seen so far don't have this facility. Then selecting
the mode, retrieval etc become slightly difficult.
Moreover, beep
assures you that recording has begun. I hope that I would definitely
find some solutions to my problem.
article on any music-festival, your own experiences about concerts as
an audience, any theoretical insight on emerging public sphere and
Hailed as one of the biggest consumer brands of the recent times, the
iPod has changed how the world listens to music.
The latest deal
as Bollywood soundtracks can be downloaded from iTunes across America,
Europe and Asia.
iTunes. We should go up in another ten days.
Our deal for now is
exclusively with T-series and we expect to put close to 30,000 tracks
from their catalogue in the next six months," says Hungama's CEO,
Neeraj Roy. The first series of albums that will go onto the iTunes
for a couple of years now, any additional form of revenue generation
is more than welcome. "Like royalties from ring tones or radio
channels, being on iTunes is definitely going to benefit the music
industry," reiterates Bhushan Kumar, T-Series, adding, "piracy is a
huge issue for us not just in India but also abroad.
With more and
more people using iPods, it just makes sense for a record label to
make your music available on iTunes."
While the Hungama-T-series deal might be the biggest with iTunes, it
definitely isn't the first. Sa Re Ga Ma's repertoire has been on the
iTunes' site since September 2004 but Atul Churamani, VP, ANR, doesn't
think it's time to celebrate as yet.
"In the last three years,
physical sales have fallen by about 55 percent, while digital music
sales are just around five percent as of now. At the end of the day,
away in a corner. After all, we are talking about a very niche content
being available on a global platform," he explains.
Having said that, Atul and the rest of the music industry believe that
with iTunes having an 85 percent share in the digital market, being on
the site is "very encouraging."
Sunday, October 23, 2005 20:02 IST
making their repertoire available for download in the domestic market,
at a cost though.
at a cost per download, the approach didn't gain momentum in the
Indian market so far.
Non-availability of Internet connections, at desired speed for fast
download, across the length and breadth of the country was an issue
which delayed the entire process. Besides, making available the entire
be dealt with to start the process.
an option to maximise reach and revenue for some time now.
With the
telecom boom, broadband services getting better and majority of the
music being digitised, an online distribution model can be expected
The domestic music fraternity, along with the Indian Music Industry
in the country, is believed to have designed a tentative revenue model
for online distribution of music that needs to be finetuned. In fact,
according to a source, the music industry is expected to arrive at a
business model in six to 12 months.
Savio D'Souza, secretary general of IMI, said, "We have been
aspect related with this.
" V J Lazarus, head of IMI which is based in
Mumbai, was not available for comment.
Rs 1,000 crore. Of which, piracy contributes to the tune of Rs 450
crore.
The organised market of film music in India is Rs 400 crore
while non-film music is around Rs 100 crore. Approximately 90% of the
cassettes. Over 9% is shared between ring-tone sales and royalties
illegal download.
According to industry observers, there are over 600
it.
taking necessary steps to curb it. In fact, IMI is aggressively
revenues for the industry," said D'Souza.
Pioneering the e-tailing approach, Saregama India made its music
available online through the company websites, www.saregama.com and
www.
humaracd.com, way back in 2000.
The sites offer a selection of 25,000 songs.
One could get a personal
as well.
CD and cassette sales, we see a great potential in this service in the
prevalent market scenario. We are in the process of reviving this
digitised format which was not the case earlier," said Makkar.
Starting October 1, Universal Music has begun selling its Indian music
websites like 'itunes' and 'napster' at 99 cents per download. "We are
in the process of working out a revenue model for the Indian market,"
As an experiment, Rediff has recently started selling music online in
download. All the 11 songs of this album are available for download
for Rs 10 per song.
Jasmeet Singh, vice-president of product marketing for Rediff, said,
"Normally for any download, the process has to be routed through IMI.
But in this case, the singer approached us for online distribution of
his music and we decided to take it forward.
distribution rights of his/her songs.
" Singh has been in talks with
help to a great extent in e-tailing Indian music.
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