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The Hindu has an interesting article today on Metro Plus that features an interview with Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Toure.

whatever it was, it was the innocent that suffered as always. Bangalore Mirror has this very disturbing story about an unfortunate 26 year old from Bangalore. Quote:

"Pune. Police here have washed their hands off the wrongful detention of a 26 year old techie from Bangalore, blaming telecom major and Internet service provider Airtel for giving them incorrect information.

Recently, I was surprised to see the name "Darjeeling" on [:http://apple.com/trailers|Apple's Movie Trailers] page.

We were in a discussion today when an SMS informed us about [:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6921960.stm|Ingmar's death]. The discussion suddenly took the backstage and SMSes flowed in and out of mobile phones. A film student friend of mine wore a sorrow look on his face and while he tried to SMS the sad news to other friends, his hands were shaking.

Harsha Bogle in a quite classic remark spoke on the telecast today that "This could become an anthem if they keep playing like this". It is the new marketing jingle "Chak De India" being played (quite often) on Start Cricket these days that he was referring to.

[:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html|GPLv3 is finally out] - After all the debates, drafts and discussions. Here's the [:http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/README.translations.html|Translation README] if anyone's interested in translating it to the local languages. And here's the [:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html|GPL-FAQ] (via /.)

It is more 'noise' than news these days on National News channels. The only few that were exceptions have also joined the race. Whether this is a useful trend, we will have to wait and see.