Here’s a news item from the Real news network on India’s refusal to sign the cluster bomb treaty along with China, US (not surprisingly), Israel, Russia and Pakistan.What is shocking though is the paltry coverage it got in Indian media for an issue that is clearly important. ToI, NDTV, Zee News, Economic Times, and […]
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India refuses to sign cluster bomb treaty & we know not why
Published June 3rd, 2008 in India, Human rights, USA, Current Affaires, Video & Audio online and Indian media. 1 CommentAmerican war par da song by Jayashree
Published June 1st, 2008 in Social Movements, General Interest, Fun stuff, USA, Documentaries and Video & Audio online. 0 CommentsEisenhover in a memorable speech talked of the danger of the military industrial complex. His warning has sadly been borne out time and again in the decades following the speech. In this context calculations of gain overwhelm concerns for morality in foreign policy. Thankfully, the same decades have also seen an appreciable growth of people’s […]
Video of Vodafone Pug in cute “Happy to help” ads
Published May 8th, 2008 in Fun stuff and Video & Audio online. 0 CommentsAfter a string of boring to outrageous ads, here’s one finally on television screens in India that’s absolutely cute. The ad is sweet and very well executed. The pug was used with great success by Hutch, so much so that it became the company’s brand ambassador. When the company was bought by Vodafone […]
Podcasts & webcasts of talks, courses, and informative shows
Published February 20th, 2008 in Useful Links (by topics) and Video & Audio online. 0 CommentsThis page contains my bookmarks on audio and video materials available online. These include lectures by famous people, good talks on a variety of subjects, online TV & radio, recordings of courses offered in universities, etc. Most of these are hosted by various universities and are ‘academic’ in nature. The list is […]
Bhagalpur blindings, Gangajal & brutality in Bihar today
Published September 11th, 2007 in India, Human rights, Current Affaires and Video & Audio online. 2 CommentsBrutal and grotesque punishments deter crime better than an inefficient and corrupt legal system argue many
Brutal punishments are back into public debate in India with the airing of the video below. A boy who had snatched a chain from a woman was caught and brutally punished by a mob - relentlessly. A Policeman joined […]
Big list of Webcasts online: Documentaries, talks, television & other videos
Published May 20th, 2007 in Useful Links (by topics), Documentaries and Video & Audio online. 0 CommentsThis is a huge list of lists of webcast sources. Contains the best academic webcasts as well as online television, documentaries, etc.
The list below contains major sources of interesting webcasts. If you are interested in knowing specific episodes you may wish to check a list of interesting talks online. For a more exhaustive list of […]
Famous talk by Steve Jobs at Stanford: Webcast
Published May 19th, 2007 in General Interest and Video & Audio online. 0 CommentsThis famous talk by Steve Jobs had circulated a lot in e-mails among my friends in India. For the first time I saw the video and it was better than the e-mail. The video from You Tube is embedded below.
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