One of my favourite poems that I keep repeating to hopefully keep me level-headed in office:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by [...]
Archive for March, 2008
If you can
Posted in The Muses, tagged Rudyard Kipling on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And this leads on to….
Posted in An exercise in self-publicity on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have always been suprised at the way websites work. I mean the way they go picking the brains of other websites. I had worked on a story for Medindia on Dr Ian Simpson: http://www.medindia.net/news/interviews/The-RIGHT-Way-to-Deal-With-Snakebites-Ask-Dr-Simpson-32986-1.htm
and imagine my suprise when I see it on http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1475688,1475688
The same thing has happened earlier. I had done an interview with [...]
Its a small world after all
Posted in An exercise in self-publicity, tagged India Intellects Solution, Om Muruga, Vijaya Padma on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When my boss wanted me to do a story on a new animation venture, I never thought I’d be meeting me husband’s best friend’s friend. I met Ms. Vijaya Padma, the co-founder of India Intellects Solution, which was making the animation movie -Om Muruga. I finished the story. Afterwhich, we had time for some good [...]
My first story (that got published, No posted)
Posted in Writer's block on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life Down The Cyber HighwayBy D.R. Chitra(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/journalismonline/post?postID=MF1hozEJNsHxDlS5MJGeQEto3DiqoiS8AYxVQa5hIngKnDA3KgGg9QMzjvFjzln4prdL5Kkiw1cGWF-7jQ)
11.30 in the night. The MP3 collections were getting downloaded at snail’s pace. Deadline for the karoke was tommorow night 9.00. Rohit yawned and kept playing a desultory game of minesweeper, occasionally checking the download process. Just a lot of junk mail and a few ads popped up, which [...]
My FIRST ARTICLE (that got posted)
Posted in An exercise in self-publicity, tagged 24-hour gospel channels, 45 minute claim, 700 Club, Afghanistan, American Foreign Policy, Andrew Wommack, Anti-Christian broadcasting networks, Axis of Evil, Benny Hinn, CBN, Charles Taylor, CNN's 'Freedom Iraq, continents, divorce, electric chair, eye for an eye, George. W. Bush Jr, GOD TV, GOD TV -- Gospel Truth, Graham Junior (Billy Graham's son), halleluiah, Home Guard, Human GM, I AM A WAR PRESIDENT, Iraq war, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, millions left homeless, Mrs. Blair's, Mumbai for a Miracle Crusade, North Korea, North Korea's nuclear programme, Oral Roberts, Osama bin Laden, PMS, praise theLord', Rumsfield, Saddam Hussein, Talibans, the Security Adviser, thousands die, Tony Blair, TV Channels, uranium import', We are waging a Holy War, Weapons of Mass Distraction, White House Press handouts, WTC on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TV Channels: Twisting The ScripturesBy ————–D.R. Chitra(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/journalismonline/post?postID=EWqc0kDZEnKSK_UfhDwObSfP7D4JwEqsAIeWgsgYdl0MIdLKZS3vppEIADQ5LZ3XLq4KgP6NTV_k9VuLERzH)
Anti-Christian broadcasting networks are exactly what GOD TV and CBN are though they claim to be otherwise. Both these channels have extensive networks in all the five continents. GOD TV has its base inBritain, and CBN is an American channel.
Though they may disagree onvarious issues (divorce, PMS, Human GM), [...]
Shopping in T.Nagar
Posted in Writer's block, tagged Shopping in T.Nagar, shopping spree, T.Nagar on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know why men who are quite capable of pushing a punctured bike 15 km across Indian roads, are incapable of shopping for more than an hour in T.Nagar.
But the mistake of taking my untried husband to T.Nagar was all mine. I should have taken my more ‘experienced’ mama and athai. But I couldn’t [...]
TOI’s arrival in Chennai
Posted in Writer's block, tagged beat, boss, Chennai, hepatitis, HR personnel, New Indian Express, press conference, recruitment drives, reporter, tennis elbow, Times of India, TOI, TOI Chennai aspirant, working journalist, writer’s block on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re a working journalist, whose ambit is Chennai, the first mission of your life should be getting a placement in the Times of India. The TOI, which has been promising to come for many years, has finally got bored with the hype of arriving and decided to get the irksome job of getting to [...]
The softer side to Benazir
Posted in My family & other animals, tagged Benazir Bhutto, Caeser, cynical journalist, Musharraf, Muslim taboos, NDTV, Tony Blair on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While I bow my head in respect and mourn the death of Ms.Benazir Bhutto, since my blog is dedicated to books, animals and cinema….I felt the need to delve into the more humane side of Ms. Bhutto. Not, that this should give way to conclusions that the cynical journalist side of me wholly approves of [...]
