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2013-01-28T23:36:07-06:00

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Making of the Kathak Song in Vishwaroopam

Last updated on: January 28, 2013 at 11:36 pm By Desh Kapoor

This song was definitely one of the highlights of the movie. Kamal Haasan’s performance simply astounded me in this one. Now I can see the work that went on it behind the scenes! Read more

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2013-01-28T21:56:30-06:00

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Many Companies waking up to a Unique Competency in Developing world: Frugal Innovation or “Jugaad”

Last updated on: January 28, 2013 at 9:56 pm By Desh Kapoor

There is value in frugal innovation. And this kind of work comes mostly from the developing countries. Companies are now using this “core competency” to their advantage. Emerging markets such as Africa, Brazil, China and India are a breeding ground for frugal innovation. Millions of Kenyans today rely on M-PESA, a service that enables them to save, spend and transfer money using their cell telephones without having a bank account. Likewise Selco provides solar energy at low prices to more... Read more

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2013-01-28T21:12:31-06:00

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Chobi Mela: an International Photography Festival in Bangladesh

Last updated on: January 28, 2013 at 9:12 pm By Desh Kapoor

Chobi Mela, the first festival of photography in Asia, is one of the most exciting ventures that Drik has initiated. The first Chobi Mela – International Festival of Photography was held Dec.1999-January 2000. It is held every two years in Dhaka. The festival examines the dramatic shifts in image production, ownership and distribution brought on by new developments in the media landscape. Read more

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2013-01-28T20:48:47-06:00

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Banning of Vishwaroopam shows Jehadi takeover of Indian Polity and Judiciary

Last updated on: January 28, 2013 at 8:48 pm By Desh Kapoor

India is fast becoming a country of small bytes processed by even smaller brains. Using numbers as might and trying to destabilize the system has become an art. We are fast hurtling towards an anarchy, if we aren’t one already. And anarchy is not some romantic idea that many “anarchists” have. Anarchies are always used by the powerful to their advantage. If a flawed democracy is bad, we have no freaking idea how bad an anarchy can be. Ask those... Read more

2013-01-28T15:01:40-06:00

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When something beyond beckons you: What is your “Line”? (a Poem)

Last updated on: January 28, 2013 at 3:01 pm By Desh Kapoor

In the drab life of the certain, the cliched, the regular, does your heart ache? Does it ache for something that is beyond the “normal”? Something that extends as part of you? Your line. What is your line? Read more

Motivation and Personal Development

2013-01-28T10:01:04-06:00

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Cremation is the Hottest Trend for handling the dead in the US

Last updated on: January 28, 2013 at 10:01 am By Desh Kapoor

Cremation is the hottest trend in the US now. As more and more people find the benefits of cremation and the Catholic Church has become more lenient, the percentage of the dead being Cremated is on the rise. Every year in America, 2.5 million people die. In 2011, the last year for which numbers are available, 42 percent were cremated, according to the funeral directors association. That’s double the rate of just 15 years ago. In some states, largely in... Read more

2013-01-28T09:24:02-06:00

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Android Tablets have almost caught up with iPad; 50% Android devices from US; Kindle Fire most popular

Last updated on: January 28, 2013 at 9:24 am By Desh Kapoor

Android has made big gains in the Tablet area and is breathing down the neck of iPad and is likely to overtake Apple sometime this year – 2013! Android tablets have nearly caught up to iPad devices as the world’s most popular tablet platform, and some project that they may even overtake iPads later this year. According to new research from app analytics company Localytics, the U.S., and specifically Amazon, should take the most credit for that trend: some 59% of all Android... Read more

2013-01-28T08:56:18-06:00

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Secret Pakistan: How Pakistan has deceived the West and the World to spread terror globally

Last updated on: January 28, 2013 at 8:56 am By Desh Kapoor

Secret Pakistan is a two part documentary by the BBC first aired on 26 October 2011. It included claims by mid-ranking Taliban commanders that they had been taught bomb-making by Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence, and suggestions that the ISI had tipped off high-ranking Al-Qaeda figures about imminent American attacks. One wonders what more proof people need for Pakistan’s double game with the world? Here is the Part Two – called Backlash. Related articles from External Sources Pakistan in Throes of Genocidal Ideology “Secret Pakistan” documentary – BBC... Read more

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2013-01-27T22:53:37-06:00

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KamalHaasan speech at IIT Mumbai: Hilarious and funny

Last updated on: January 27, 2013 at 10:53 pm By Desh Kapoor

Here is a very interesting, honest, and direct speech and Q&A discussion by KamalHaasan. He is humorous and funny! Worth listening. Read more

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2013-01-27T22:41:03-06:00

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Pope wants Faithful to “convert” to Twitter

Last updated on: January 27, 2013 at 10:41 pm By Desh Kapoor

While trying to enter Asia to spread the “Christian Good News”, a euphemism for converting the local populations – while decimating the local cultures and myriad of belief systems and rituals as new “Walmartization” of culture happens – Pope now wants to enter a new territory. Social Media. He has a new directive for the believers. Throng to the Social Media like Twitter. He himself has opened an account, and despite just 26 tweets, has amassed over a million... Read more

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