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Disney, UTV and the Indian Entertainment Industry
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The Hindu has a report today about a subsidiary of Disney investing in India's UTV - an entertainment company.
UTV is a company that has produced some very different kind of cinema in India that include Khosla Ka Ghosla, Airtel's blunder? or slapdash Police?
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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.
The Darjeeling Limited
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Ingmar Bergman
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.
Chak de India!
hpn
July 27, 2007 - 19:57
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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.
GPLv3 is out
hpn
June 30, 2007 - 06:17
[: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 /.)