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MBP 17 Inch Repair Video

2011-12-14T16:14:00.002+05:30

Jobs Takes iWay To Heaven

2011-10-07T12:31:00.001+05:30

An iCon Who Revolutionized Mobile Communications, Music, Movies And Modern Culture, Made Technology Beautiful, Ended The Reign of Personal Computers, And Changed Our Lives

Chidanand Rajghatta TNN

At 56, Loses Battle Against Cancer
Washington: Steve Jobs, who brought joy to the world by simplifying computers and phones, logged out of life on Wednesday following an enervating seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer. The founder of Apple Inc and tech visionary is being mourned worldwide by millions whose lives he uniquely touched. He was just 56.
    A gizmo-God to geeks and gearheads, but also worshipped by Luddites for introducing beautiful form, elegant function and simplicity to workday electronics, Jobs died peacefully surrounded by his family, including his wife of 20 years and three children.
    Presidents, CEOs and other luminaries sent in glowing tributes, but a timeless sentiment came from an Applehead who tweeted, “Life is smoother since we can touch instead of push.”
    It was a reference to the feather-light, touch-driven operating process Jobs introduced that changed the look and feel of today’s devices, brought aesthetics to electronics, and made it accessible to all. Another compared him to Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type, while yet another called him the “Michelangelo of our times”.
    President Obama summoned his trademark eloquence in a tribute, calling Jobs “among the greatest of American innovators — brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it”.
APPLE OF OUR i 1976: Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs start Apple 1984: Macintosh PC debuts 1985: Jobs leaves Apple 1986: Founds Pixar Animation Studios 1997:Rejoins Apple as interim CEO 1998: iMac desktop computer unveiled 2001: iPod unveiled 2007: iPhone launched 2010: Apple begins selling iPadAug 9, 2011: Apple briefly becomes world’s
most valuable company Aug 24: Jobs steps down as Apple CEO Oct 5: Jobs dies after battle with cancer
    No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there... Yet death is the destination we all share... Death is very likely the single biggest invention of life. It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
    STEVE JOBS | 1955-2011 WORLD WIDE WOE

Three apples have changed the world. The one offered to Adam, the one that fell on Newton, and the one of Steve Jobs ONLINE CHAIN MAIL

For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honour. I will miss Steve immensely
BILL GATES | MICROSOFT FOUNDER

Simply the greatest CEO of his generation
  RUPERT MURDOCH | CEO, NEWSCORP

The greatest inventor since Thomas Edison
  STEVEN SPIELBERG | FILM-MAKER

Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing what you build can change the world. I will miss you
  MARK ZUCKERBERG | FACEBOOK FOUNDER & CEO

The Michelangelo of the computer era. He demonstrated that genius does not need an expensive, elite education
  N R NARAYANA MURTHY | INFOSYS FOUNDER It’s a ‘tech 21-gun salute’

America is gutted by Steve Jobs’ death, and the outpouring of sadness and veneration surpassed that given to any hero or icon in the modern era. Even Jobs’ great peer, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, was stricken by the passing of his sometime rival. “For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honour. I will miss Steve immensely,” Gates said in a statement, recalling that they have been colleagues, competitors and friends. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who wasn’t born when Jobs introduced the first Apple computer wrote: “Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. The founders of Google and Yahoo issued similar statements in an outpouring that one industry writer compared to a ‘’technological 21-gun salute.’’

    Reams are being written and hours are being broadcast about what Steve Jobs brought into our lives, but someone put it in just one word: joy. Adults glowed with childlike happiness at owning an Apple device, a lineup that included Mac computers, iPods, iPhones, and iPads. Millions lined up overnight before Apple stores to receive new products.
    If India introduced the world’s cheapest tablet computer for $35 (ironically on the day of his death), the inspiration was Steve Jobs.
    About Gates, Jobs once joked, “He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.’’ Now, it is Jobs who has gone off to a place beyond the ashram, having changed the world.

This logo tribute, titled “Thanks, Steve”, was created by 19-yr-old designer Jonathan Mak Long of Hong Kong

Courtesy: TOI / 7th Oct 2011

"Classroom Without Walls"-CWW.IAAN TV

2011-01-26T18:25:00.000+05:30

It was just a practice session that also not for myself. Actually I was explaining how to use Blocking of Camera to get the kind of effect seen in the above video. My team kind of not getting the whole idea, I needed to come in front of the camera and do the anchor/reporter part. As it was a practice session, I didn't wear any mic and used the on-camera gun mic therefore there is an obvious audio problem. To bring the final Visual Effect I needed to edit the rushes,We did the edit on Apple Final Cut Pro with a lot of use of Garbage Matte for the Compositing part. Thank GOD it was just a simple Composite,otherwise we could have needed Compositing Application like Adobe After Effect or Apple Shake or Nuke. I knew this so we didn't move the camera at all during the shooting.

NEWSROOM AUTOMATION IN INDIA

2010-07-19T16:37:00.000+05:30

The term newsroom system includes all of those activities that are expected to be available on the journalist's desktop. The list of functions expected from the newsroom system includes planning/diary/assignments; communications (messaging, mail), web browsing and research; news agency reception, sorting and alerts; ingest scheduling and management; encoding/trans-coding; cataloging and metadata creation; search engine, low-resolution proxy browsing, shot-listing and editing; voiceover recording; high-resolution conforming and finishing; video server management; scriptwriting; running order creation; script and show timing; graphics creation; prompting; captioning; subtitling; on-air play out automation; web and DVD authoring and publishing; archiving (short-, medium- and long-term) of media and text; digital asset management.

The scope of traditionally known newsroom computer systems (NRCS) such as Avid's iNEWS and the Associated Press' (AP) ENPS based on core technology originally conceived for a text-only era are still operational and still being sold. Integration potential has replaced pure functionality as the most desirable and necessary attribute of these systems and continuous efforts has been expended by both companies to provide, one way or the other, additional capabilities. Avid promotes a one-stop shop in which iNews is part of a wider infrastructure including Avid editing systems and Unity. Their success has made it difficult for competitors to break into the market. Dalet, Octopus, VSN and Autocue among others all offer highly functional broadcast NRCS systems with numerous strong points and, indeed, satisfied customers. But none has achieved the critical mass of iNews and ENPS. There are some broadcasters who have decided to go it alone and develop their own systems but these systems are few and none has yet been installed outside its own organization.

In India 483 channels are currently beemed. Last year four new national news channels namely UTVnews, Voice of India, 9X, and E-24 by BAG films hit the market but only UTVnews seems to have survived. 9X has been hived off to Nayi Duniya. Voice of India too is looking for investors. E-24 seems to be struggling with high attrition levels and poor TRPs.

The regional news channels, with low budgets for equipment pose challenging requirements to the system integrators and distributors. As news channels record healthy revenues, focus on innovative newsrooms with the latest technology up-gradations could improve the business of news and media operations. This market with the increasing interest in general news, live cricket, upcoming Commonwealth Games 2010 is heading towards a growth curve.

MAJOR PLAYERS

Barco has been a major player in display solutions. It has a wide range of products to respond to the needs of studio backdrop, monitoring solutions for PCR, MCR, DTH and IPTV. Products are designed for 24/7 applications keeping in mind the critical nature of operations.

Benchmark is one of the leading system integrators in India. All their installations are running smoothly. The major customers are Saam TV, Jamuna TV and T7.

CMS Broadcast is a part of CMS Computers Ltd. They provide turnkey solutions for TV channels. They represent some of the biggest OEMs from the broadcast industry like Sony, Apple, Building for Media, Octopus, Harris, among others and is also the authorized service partner for them. They offer AMC and facility management services to satellite channel, production houses, educational institutes, government departments and similar other clients.

Delta Display walls are designed for real and expanding requirements for large scale visualization systems that present extreme resolutions and provide a customizable multimedia system in a multiple monitor format. These are ideally suited for mission critical control and command rooms, data visualization and high entertainment environments. Its state of the art design delivers the highest contrast, best image quality, operational reliability, serviceability and cost-of-ownership.

Ideal Broadcasting supplied fully integrated newsroom solution to Century Communication channel. The solution includes Dalet newsroom, Omneon servers, Harris automation, graphics from Vizrt, and Final Cut Pro. Dalet newsroom helps out in content creation and production, asset management, and playout.Ideal Broadcasting India. Address:- 5cripwell house commercial complex, vasant kunj, new delhi 110070, New Delhi 0091 1204544122

Omnibus in India is represented by Shaf Broadcast Private Limited. Shaf Broadcast as a system integrator provided solutions to Mahaa TV, Studio End, iNews, Local TV, Times Zoom, Sahara Mumbai, Raj TV along with few others. OmniBus provides broadcasting, cable, and satellite organizations with comprehensive automation, media content management and workflow solutions addressing every area of television-related operations. Its sports and newsroom content solutions include acquisition and recording of rich media material, media content management, and play out. Some of the products offered by company for newsroom automation are iTX a software based production and transmission solution allows broadcasters to launch both multi-channel operations and new low-cost channels or to establish backup systems that reproduce the entire transmission chain, complete with automation, ingesting, editing, and content management. Omnibus OPUS is a suite of content management and workflow components that link multiple vendor system with an integrated efficient workflow. Omnibus Colossus is a multi-channel automation system, providing a robust and scalable solution to broadcasters.

Playbox automation system supports all existing I/O interfaces, all video-audio standards, graphics, digital video effects, and compression format. The Playbox broadcast automation system consists of an ingest server, automated play out server, graphics insertion server, TX database server with TX management software, network file storage server, and networking peripherals.Address:- PlayBox Technology India Pvt. Ltd. R7B, Green Park Main, New Delhi - 110 016, India.tel. +91 11 4374 3333 fax. +91 11 4165 1607

Real Image is one of the India's major technology providers in the film, video and audio markets. The company through its partner Avid provides newsroom automation solutions to both national and regional news channels in India. The major customers include NDTV, CNN IBN, NDTV, Times Now, ET, SUN TV, Kalaignar TV and Shakshi TV. The product range of the company includes ISIS (Avid), with central storage features, iNews Command (Avid) for newsroom automation, interplay (Avid) for media asset management, airspeed (Avid) for ingest and play out servers, Orad for graphics and iNews (Avid) for NRCS scripting solutions.

Thomson GrassValley as one of the major service provider did project for TV9, Zoom along with few more and are working on project for Dhera TV from Hyderabad. The company addresses the newsroom with its Ignite integrated production systems, Media FUSE suite of multiple production tools, Storage Area Network (SAN) which is based on multiple K2 media servers configured in the shared storage architecture and the Aurora (7.0) platform allow a broadcaster to streamline the production of its newscast and other programs while giving the staff the ability to be more productive. The Ignite HD system can be ordered with one to four M/Es up to 32 control ports and is completely scalable from 24 to 96 video inputs and 24 to 96 audio inputs. Key features of the product include:

Easy transition between back-to-back newscasts.

Proven to easily handle any breaking-news scenario.

Float, drop, and add stories within seconds.

Improves ROI.

Enables increased programming opportunities and revenue stream via single workflow.

Provides direct link between run-down and on-air programming.

Cost effective solution for new, live multicast channels, and multi distribution opportunities.

Event-driven technology allowing one person to direct the entire production.

Single, partial and fully redundant backup capabilities for CPUs, video and audio frames.

VTIPL serves the needs of broadcast audio-video industry in India by system designing, integrating and distribution of the professional broadcast products. VTIPL uses VSN news, a powerful, entirely integrated news system that allows text/video editing in the same application. VSN is not only a digital newsroom system but a brand new concept in the way of doing TV. All work is automated and computerized, creating a logical workflow between departments and people.

It allows editing video one minute after starting ingesting process, while you are still recording it. Playlist events can be edited and changed just 5 seconds before going on air. Their major clients are Focus TV, Hamaar TV, Local TV, Sun TV, Azad TV and Doordarshan. Their major principals are Leitch, Ross Video, CDAC, Data Video, Panasonic, Telescript, Mackie, Allen & Heath, Ruige, and VSN.

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PROMO FOR IAAN SCHOOL OF MASS COMMUNICATION

2010-04-06T15:01:00.000+05:30

This is a promotional video conceived,developed,filmed and edited on digital format for IAAN SCHOOL OF MASS COMMUNICATION, New Delhi. I used Sony HVR-FX1 for cinematography and Apple's Final Cut Pro 6 and Motion 3 for Post-production. I am really thankful to my students who help me out throughout the filmmaking process, without them it was unachievable. I am excited about the next project as I am assigned to do a promotional video on IAAN TV. But there will be more challenges in terms of quality and conventions as I am equipped with undesirable equipment, small and under-skilled team and almost no budget. lets hope for the better.

Mizoram CM: I am a victim of Racism in India

2009-06-28T18:02:00.000+05:30

SINGAPORE – At a time when racial attacks against Indian students in Australia have attracted comments from the top leadership in both countries, Mizoram chief minister Pu Lalthanhawla on Thursday said he too was a victim of racism – but in India.

Speaking at a conference on water at the Singapore International Water Week, the chief minister said: “In India, people ask me if I am an Indian.”

“When I go south, people ask me such questions. They ask me if I am from Nepal or elsewhere. They forget that the northeast is part of India. I have told many that see, I am an Indian like you,” Lalthanhawla said.

“I am a victim of racism,” he said. Indians consist of three races – “Dravidians, Aryans and we in the northeast,” Lalthanhawla said.

Though many northeastern students complain of such discrimination in places like New Delhi, a state chief minister speaking in an international podium about an issue unrelated to the subject concerned was not liked by other Indian delegates present.

Courtesy:- TOI, 26th June 2009

DU’s friendly, Delhi’s not

2009-06-20T00:45:00.000+05:30

An Excerpt from the report of MEDHA SHRI Times News Network,Delhi Times-TOI(19/06/09)

Life in a metro…
Says Lamtinthang, “Our lifestyle is different from that of the Delhiities and if one of them was to come and stay in Manipur, they too would have to make adjustments. So, one should be willing to do so and also interact with not just people from their own state, but everybody else too.” He adds, “However, girls need to be extremely careful.”

What’s in a name?
Students from the Northeast are often referred to as Chinkys. “When we walk down the road, people in Delhi call us Chinky, Nepali, Bahadur, etc,” says Livingson, a student of Economics at Ramjas College. He adds, “I have a lot of friends from Bihar and Haryana, but we don’t mock at them by calling them Biharis or Jats. Also, I don’t have a problem in being called a Chinky, provided it is not done with the intention to put us down.” Chips in Kaipou, “Some people call us Chinkys to insult us, that’s when I get offended. We too have nicknames for each other, but we utter them with the right intention.”

Terror kills more in Northeast than in J&K

2009-01-06T02:37:00.000+05:30

New Delhi: The serial blasts in Guwahati on New Year’s Day were a chilling reminder to the country of a forgotten but deadly war being fought in the Brahmaputra valley and the surrounding hills.
In the year just gone by, over a thousand persons were killed in terrorist related violence in the seven states of the northeast. The bulk of these deaths occurred in just two states — Assam and Manipur. Assam reported 372 fatalities while the death toll in Manipur was just shy of 500, second only to Kashmir, which recorded 539 deaths.
While the country has been preoccupied with Kashmir and escalating terrorist violence elsewhere, separatist violence in northeast has crept up. Data from the South Asian Terrorism Portal (SATP) shows that the total number of deaths in this region has increased from 640 in 2006 to 1057 in 2008.
These figures include a steadily increasing number of fatalities among the separatists themselves, but there is a parallel rise in deaths of innocent civilians as the terrorists take recourse to bombings like the one in Guwahati on Thursday.
The number of terrorists killed has increased from 317 in 2006 to 501 in 2007 and further to 612 in 2008. But the civilian death toll too has mounted from 231 in 2006 to 405 in 2008. Casualties among security forces operating in the region have declined drastically from 92 in 2006 to 40 in 2008. An estimated 2 lakh persons are reported to be internally displaced due to ethnic strife.
Northeast is no stranger to insurgencies with all its seven states having witnessed some form of armed separatism over the last six decades. In the 15 years since 1994, an estimated 16,271 persons have been killed in this volatile region.
A combination of persistent economic backwardness and the presence of several dozen ethnic groups has made this region a crucible of identity politics. Nearly 20% of the 50 million people of the region are below the poverty line. Of the 635 tribal groups identified by the Anthropological Survey of India, 213 reside in the northeast.
Some states have a very low or passive level of separatist activity like Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. In Mizoram, the insurgency ended in 1986 after the accord between the Union government and the Mizo National Front led by Laldenga. Meghalaya too has a relatively lower and declining level of terrorist activity although a number of separatist groups are active in extortion and other criminal activities. Tripura, which till a decade back was a hotbed of terrorist actions, appears to have overcome the menace through a determined political effort.
But in three states — Assam, Manipur and Nagaland — separatist violence continues with an incendiary mix of ethnic strife. While terrorist actions in Assam still get attention, Manipur, with the second highest number of terrorist related deaths after Kashmir, has remained below the national radar. All 59 police stations in the state have reported terrorist activities, and 32 of them have been placed in the high violence category.
SATP estimates that there are at least 15 major militant groups with approximately 10,000 cadre active in the state. The desperate situation is highlighted by the fact that Manipur continues to remain classified as a disturbed area since the 1970s.
It has a higher police-topopulation ratio than the national average and yet there is no end to violence.
Assam, the biggest state in the northeast, has been the hunting ground of Ulfa despite several army operations against it, including the 2005 sweep in sanctuaries in the Bhutanese foothills.
Decades of Ulfa violence has spawned rival outfits from amongst plains tribals and Muslims, leading to an ever escalating spiral of violence on innocent civilians of every community. Current estimates put active terrorist groups at 12, while inactive groups number over 20. Recent reports suggest that Ulfa has also tied up with some factions of Naga separatist groups, operating in Nagaland and Manipur.

Courtesy: TOI(05-01-08) By-Subodh Varma TIMES INSIGHT GROUP

Our netas are us

2008-12-04T00:05:00.000+05:30

The SMSs are doing the rounds: We’ve dealt with the men who came in boats, now we should deal with the men who came in with votes; let’s hope Chidambaram can bring down terrorism the way he’s brought down the stock market. Never before has the Indian political class as a whole been put so vehemently in the dock by the citizenry as after the Mumbai terror attack. The anger and scorn directed at our politicians is inevitable and justified; there is a profound sense of betrayal by a political leadership that, obsessed with its own survival and the perpetuation of its own agenda, seems hell-bent on delivering the rest of us into the hands of our mortal enemies through gross and criminal negligence.
The token resignation of some netas — some effected in the face of shameless reluctance to demit office — will do nothing to assuage public anger which is only too aware that those shown the door will be replaced by Box and Cox clones of the same genetic stripe: 100 per cent promise, zero per cent performance. Indeed, Politico Indicus remains unregenerate.
Snubbed by the father of the NSG commando killed in action, the Kerala CM has shown unretracted fangs by retorting that “even a dog would not have visited the Unnikrishnan house had it not been that of a martyr” (many would say it’s more the pity that it had to be the commando and not the CM who was martyred). Not to be outdone in the ‘Most Tasteless Remark of the Year’ stakes, BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has castigated women “with lipstick and powder on their face” for holding peaceful demonstrations against the signal failure of our politicians to protect citizens from terror.
Our political class as a whole is certainly condemnable: insufferably arrogant, flagrantly self-serving and utterly derelict in fulfilling its most basic duties and responsibilities to those who have voted it into existence. Which is us. And there lies the rub. In a democracy — even a deeply flawed democracy likes ours where the ballot box should be renamed the bribery box — we are as responsible for our political leaders as they are supposed to be for us — but are not, as tragic evidence only too clearly shows.
Why is it that India can produce world-class scientists, doctors, artistes, philosophers, scholars, soldiers (whose heroism all too often is sacrificed on the altar of political expediency and callousness) but a generic political class which can only be described as third-rate, if that? Could it be because while other professions demand skills and dedication that reflect what might be called our highest common denominator, the profession of politics reflects our lowest common denominator?
In a democracy, politicians are what we, the people, choose to make of them. If our politicians are corrupt and drunk on the insolence of power is it is not because, wittingly or unwittingly, we have colluded in making them what they are, first by electing them to power, and then seeking boons from them as one would from an all-powerful deity?
We are complicit in the moral destitution that infests our politics. We will vote not for the most deserving, or efficient, or honest, of candidates but for the one who, for reasons of caste or other considerations, is the most likely to grant us favours in the form of jobs, reservations, government contracts, string-pulling, out-of-turn LPG connections, attendance with much fanfare and security bandobast at our family weddings or other functions which will bestow great cachet and clout on us vis-a-vis our neighbours.
If our politicians are the parasitic monsters that we accuse them of being, it’s because we sycophants have helped to make them that way. By all means decry the ugly and unacceptable face of Indian politics. But let’s realise that it’s the same face we see in the mirror every morning.

Courtesy: Second Opinion by Jug Suraiya, TOI-Delhi,3rd Dec'08

People Do Matter

2008-12-02T14:15:00.000+05:30

Ministers forced to resign as government begins damage control

Shivraj Patil’s resignation as home minister was inevitable in the aftermath of the bloodbath in Mumbai but it may be too late for comfort. However, it is welcome that the prime minister took the call on Patil finally. His ineptitude was evident not just in the rise in terror attacks during his tenure in the home ministry but also in his inability to communicate the government’s will to crack down effectively on terrorism. It was said that Patil enjoyed the confidence of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and that allowed him an extended tenure in government. The resignation came in only after Sonia woke up to the damage he was causing the government. Public opinion, she may have recognised, had turned irrevocably against the loyalist.
Public opinion has also forced the Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and home minister R R Patil to resign. Deshmukh and Patil have exposed themselves as inept administrators and insensitive people. The CM’s visit to the Taj Mahal hotel with his actor son and a noted Bollywood director made the inspection tour almost look like a location scout for a film shoot. R R Patil’s remark that these things happen in a big city was irresponsible and unbecoming of a public official. These resignations are most welcome because public anger against inefficient and callous administrators is at a peak, and rightly so. Public officials have to be accountable to citizens and appear to be so. The best the government can do now is to fix accountability on public officials who have failed in their duty. Let the message go out that the government is willing to listen and ready to set its house in order. People’s faith in a democracy is reaffirmed and enhanced when elected officials engage with their views.
Shivraj Patil’s replacement, P Chidambaram, has his task cut out in the home ministry. The security apparatus has a complex architecture and repairing it is a long haul. The change had to begin at the top, with the home minister. But the top brass of the ministry and various intelligence agencies are no less culpable than the minister in failing the country. The new minister must study the situation and, if necessary, replace a few incumbents. However, the main task before Chidambaram is to establish norms of institutional accountability and cooperation among various agencies.
There were signals from Indian and foreign intelligence, especially the US, that terrorists would target Mumbai. The home minister must stop turf tussles in the security bureaucracy and ensure a free flow of information among various agencies. A nationwide information base with real access to security agencies should help. A political consensus has emerged on the long-pending demand for a federal agency to tackle crime. The government should fast-track the decision. The absence of a clear command structure allows different wings of the security establishment to shift blame. We wish Chidambaram good luck. He’ll need it.

Courtsey:- Editorial, TOI-Delhi, 12th Dec' 08

‘How many titles for a Khel Ratna?’

2008-12-02T14:10:00.000+05:30

New Delhi: A four-time world champion, MC Mary Kom has never been considered worthy for Khel Ratna and disturbed by the apathy, the Manipuri — arguably world’s most successful woman boxer — is asking what more she needs to do to get the country’s highest sporting honour.
“I have won the World Championship four times on the trot. Dhoni gets a Khel Ratna for winning just one World Cup, I fail to understand why am I being ignored then. How can anybody expect an athlete to stay motivated if he or she is ignored like this?” Mary Kom said in an interview on Monday.
The pin weight pugilist, who clinched a fourth world title in the fifth edition of the event in Ningbo City, China, managed the feat despite being away from the ring for two years after becoming a mother. Hurt at being ignored twice for the award, Mary Kom says even more disturbing than that is the sheer ignorance about the sport in which she competes. “Last year, when my name was recommended by the federation, I had been shortlisted along with Dhoni but (Arjuna awards selection committee chairman) Milkha Singh struck off my name saying that he did not know which sport I competed in. That hurt me terribly,” she revealed.
“I want to ask him today, how many more titles do I have to win for him and for the country to believe that I deserve the honour?” she asked. “Don’t give me the award if you think I am not worthy but please don’t insult me with statements like that. It angers me. People should be encouraging but they are not and I have accepted it as part of life,” she said.
The Indian Boxing Federation says it would push for her case yet again next year and is confident of becoming third time lucky. “We will once again recommend her. Every time, she has been sidelined. She is special and her achievements are unparalleled,” IBF general secretary PKM Raja said.
Mary Kom, meanwhile, is busy chalking out her plans for future and is keeping her fingers crossed for women’s boxing inclusion in the 2010 Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. “I am looking forward to training hard now and hope that women’s boxing is included in the 2010 Asian and Commonwealth Games so that I can add to the medals that I have won. My ultimate dream is to represent the country in the Olympic Games and hopefully that dream would realise in London 2012,” she said.
Attending camps and tournaments means staying away from her young family but Mary Kom says she can bank on her husband’s support to make sure that her twin boys are not neglected. “It feels terrible to leave the kids behind but my husband has made sure that I don’t have to worry about my boys,” she said. PTI

Courtesy :- Times Sport, TOI, 02th Dec' 08

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Role of media in a democracy

2008-11-23T22:29:00.000+05:30

Introduction
Democracy means ‘A system of government in which all the people of a country can vote to elect their representatives’. Media came into existence in 1780 with the introduction of a newspaper namely ‘The Bengal Gazette’ and since then it has matured leaps and bounds. It has been playing a very important role in shaping human minds.

Role of media
Media plays a crucial role in shaping a healthy democracy. It is the backbone of a democracy. Media makes us aware of various social, political and economical activities happening around the world. It is like a mirror, which shows us or strives to show us the bare truth and harsh realities of life.

The media has undoubtedly evolved and become more active over the years. It is the media only who reminds politicians about their unfulfilled promises at the time of elections. T.V news channels’ excessive coverage during elections helps people, especially illiterates, in electing the right person to the power. This reminder compels politicians to be upto their promises in order to remain in power.

Television and radio have made a significant achievement in educating rural illiterate masses in making them aware of all the events in their language. Coverage of exploitative malpractices of village heads and moneylenders has helped in taking stringent actions against them by attracting government’s attention.

The media also exposes loopholes in the democratic system, which ultimately helps government in filling the vacuums of loopholes and making a system more accountable, responsive and citizen-friendly. A democracy without media is like a vehicle without wheels.

In the age of information technology we are bombarded with information. We get the pulse of the world events with just a click of a mouse. The flow of information has increased manifolds. The perfect blend of technology and human resources (journalist) has not left a single stone unturned in unearthing rampant corruption in politics and society. We all are well aware of what tehelka did. Thanks to technology that has brought a kind of revolution in journalism.

Impact of media

The impact of media is really noteworthy. Excessive coverage or hype of sensitive news has led to communal riots at times. The illiterates are more prone to provocations than the literates. Constant repetition of the news, especially sensational news, breeds apathy and insensitivity. For instance, In Dhananjoy Chatterjee case, the overloaded hype led to death of quite a few children who imitated the hanging procedure which was repeatedly shown in most of the T.V. news channels. There is a plethora of such negative impacts. Media should take utmost care in airing or publishing such sensational news.

Commercialization has created a stiff competition in media. In order to outdo each other print media has often gone one step further in publishing articles, cover stories, etc. on sex.
Media experts say this is one of the means of attracting readers who are glued to T.V. news channels, which have cropped up swiftly in a recent past and they believe this is a cheap form of journalism.

Conclusion

No one is perfect in this world and so is the media. It’s not about degrading the media, rather there is still a lot of scope for improvement by which media can raise upto the aspirations of the people for which it is meant. We cannot think of a democracy without active and neutral media. Media is like a watchdog in a democracy that keeps government active. From being just an informer it has become an integral part of our daily lives. With the passage of time it has become a more matured and a more responsible entity. The present media revolution has helped people in making an informed decisions and this has led to beginning of a new era in a democracy.

THE LOST WORLD!!

2008-05-24T23:00:00.000+05:30

1st IAAN ALUMNI PARTY

2007-08-21T23:03:00.001+05:30

EMOT ICONS

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PSYCHIC MOBILITY

2007-03-28T18:18:00.000+05:30

Seeing the undigestable conditions in Manipur, most of the people in and outside Manipur want to do something for the betterment of Manipur. But the ground reality is that we could rather do something good for the development of the state.

It's not the politicians who are corrupt, it's not the police force that's corrupt, it's not the insurgent groups who are misleading or misguiding others....

It's the people, It's the PSYCHOGRAPHY of the people there, here and everywhere.

DEVELOPMENT has many aspects and scopes. It doesn't confine only to ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. We have all the money but we are not educated.

Even if we are educated we cant write an application in English (English is not the height of development but of course an indicator of qualitative development in education).

Even though if we are competent enough, our way of thinking, behaviour, attitude towards the wolrd, knowledge, prejudices, beliefs and perceptibilty are very limited.

In other words we can say we lack the PSYCHIC MOBILITY.

We dont really think out of the box. We treat people very indifferently.

That's the reason why, today Manipuri tribes dont think they are Manipuris, to take an example. They want to associate with some other states or they dont have a brotherly feeling for other castes in manipur.

WE HAVE TO MIND OUR BLOODY ATTITUDES. We should learn how to respect and honour people irrespective of their castes or religions.

We should stop cursing people. This can be possible only when we learn to cultivate and inculcate a Psychic mobilty- a tendency to emphathise and implement in our outlook.

All in all, it's the individual who has to change or develop himself or herself first.

Let's not try to change the system or society.

LET'S BECOME A CHANGE IN THE SYSTEM OR SOCIETY BY CHANGING OURSELVES. AND THATS THE ULTIMATE WAY TO THINK ABOUT MANIPURIS,MANIPUR AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IRRESPECTIVE OF WHERE YOU ARE STAYING.

But at times we are confrontated with questions like "When your chakhao(stomach) is empty can you think of education/society or whatever?" When our Chakhao(stomach) is empty, we wont be able to think about Education,society...Very Right.

But even when our Chakhao is full, we hardly do anything sensible. Instead we engage ourselves in Leibung Phamba(sitting together in common place and talking about the nitty-gritty of other people) or rather we voluntarily talk about bad of other people (Waathi Ngangba).

It doesnt matter where we are staying. Whether we are in Delhi, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore.....we seem to be follwing the same aged-old traditions. We dont have time to think about ourselves.

What I'm trying to say is that we have to constatntly check, review, assess ourselves and make changes if necessary so that we can improve and develop the quality of the personailty we have in ourselves. Which is known as Human Resource.

Every individual is a human resource or part of it.

In order to have a better MANIPUR, we have to improve the quality of each and everyone, which is difficult if not possible. But to improve yourself is totally dependent on you.

And we all need a dose of psychic mobilty.

How to reach me?

2007-03-24T13:09:00.000+05:30

Hi Friends

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The Global Media Giants

2007-03-23T12:07:00.000+05:30

A specter now haunts the world: a global commercial media system dominated by a small number of superpowerful, mostly U.S.-based transnational media corporations. It is a system that works to advance the cause of the global market and promote commercial values, while denigrating journalism and culture not conducive to the immediate bottom line or long-run corporate interests. It is a disaster for anything but the most superficial notion of democracy--a democracy where, to paraphrase John Jay's maxim, those who own the world ought to govern it.

The global commercial system is a very recent development. Until the 1980s, media systems were generally national in scope. While there have been imports of books, films, music and TV shows for decades, the basic broadcasting systems and newspaper industries were domestically owned and regulated. Beginning in the 1980s, pressure from the IMF, World Bank and U.S. government to deregulate and privatize media and communication systems coincided with new satellite and digital technologies, resulting in the rise of transnational media giants.

How quickly has the global media system emerged? The two largest media firms in the world, Time Warner and Disney, generated around 15 percent of their income outside of the United States in 1990. By 1997, that figure was in the 30 percent-35 percent range. Both firms expect to do a majority of their business abroad at some point in the next decade.

The global media system is now dominated by a first tier of nine giant firms. The five largest are Time Warner (1997 sales: $24 billion), Disney ($22 billion), Bertelsmann ($15 billion), Viacom ($13 billion), and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation ($11 billion). Besides needing global scope to compete, the rules of thumb for global media giants are twofold: First, get bigger so you dominate markets and your competition can't buy you out. Firms like Disney and Time Warner have almost tripled in size this decade.

Second, have interests in numerous media industries, such as film production, book publishing, music, TV channels and networks, retail stores, amusement parks, magazines, newspapers and the like. The profit whole for the global media giant can be vastly greater than the sum of the media parts. A film, for example, should also generate a soundtrack, a book, and merchandise, and possibly spin-off TV shows, CD-ROMs, video games and amusement park rides. Firms that do not have conglomerated media holdings simply cannot compete in this market.

The first tier is rounded out by TCI, the largest U.S. cable company that also has U.S. and global media holdings in scores of ventures too numerous to mention. The other three first-tier global media firms are all part of much larger industrial corporate powerhouses: General Electric (1997 sales: $80 billion), owner of NBC; Sony (1997 sales: $48 billion), owner of Columbia & TriStar Pictures and major recording interests; and Seagram (1997 sales: $14 billion), owner of Universal film and music interests. The media holdings of these last four firms do between $6 billion and $9 billion in business per year. While they are not as diverse as the media holdings of the first five global media giants, these four firms have global distribution and production in the areas where they compete. And firms like Sony and GE have the resources to make deals to get a lot bigger very quickly if they so desire.

Behind these firms is a second tier of some three or four dozen media firms that do between $1 billion and $8 billion per year in media-related business. These firms tend to have national or regional strongholds or to specialize in global niche markets. About one-half of them come from North America, including the likes of CBS, the New York Times Co., Hearst, Comcast and Gannett.Most of the rest come from Europe, with a handful based in East Asia and Latin America.

In short, the overwhelming majority (in revenue terms) of the world's film production, TV show production, cable channel ownership, cable and satellite system ownership, book publishing, magazine publishing and music production is provided by these 50 or so firms, and the first nine firms thoroughly dominate many of these sectors. By any standard of democracy, such a concentration of media power is troubling, if not unacceptable.

But that hardly explains how concentrated and uncompetitive this global media power actually is. In addition, these firms are all actively engaged in equity joint ventures where they share ownership of concerns with their "competitors" so as to reduce competition and risk. Each of the nine first-tier media giants, for example, has joint ventures with, on average, two-thirds of the other eight first-tier media giants. And the second tier is every bit as aggressive about making joint ventures.

We are the world
In some ways, the emerging global commercial media system is not an entirely negative proposition. It occasionally promotes anti-racist, anti-sexist or anti-authoritarian messages that can be welcome in some of the more repressive corners of the world. But on balance the system has minimal interest in journalism or public affairs except for that which serves the business and upper-middle classes, and it privileges just a few lucrative genres that it can do quite well--like sports, light entertainment and action movies--over other fare. Even at its best the entire system is saturated by a hyper- commercialism, a veritable commercial carpetbombing of every aspect of human life. As the C.E.O. of Westinghouse put it (Advertising Age, 2/3/97), "We are here to serve advertisers. That is our raison d'etre."

Some once posited that the rise of the Internet would eliminate the monopoly power of the global media giants. Such talk has declined recently as the largest media, telecommunication and computer firms have done everything within their immense powers to colonize the Internet, or at least neutralize its threat. The global media cartel may be evolving into a global communication cartel.

But the entire global media and communication system is still influx. While we are probably not too far from crystallization, there will likely be considerable merger and joint venture activity in the coming years. Indeed, by the time you read this, there may already be some shifts in who owns what or whom.

What is tragic is that this entire process of global media concentration has taken place with little public debate, especially in the U.S., despite the clear implications for politics and culture. After World War II, the Allies restricted media concentration in occupied Germany and Japan because they noted that such concentration promoted anti-democratic, even fascist, political cultures. It may be time for the United States and everyone else to take a dose of that medicine. But for that to happen will require concerted effort to educate and organize people around media issues. That is the task before us.

WHO IS MANIPURI?

2007-03-22T18:37:00.000+05:30

India is gographically,culturally, socially diverse country. We have Gujaratis, Marathis, Punjabis,Biharis, Malyalis,Madrassi or Assamese to name but a few. But the collective noun which represents and presents all the citizens of India is "THE INDIAN"( You have to refer your NCERT History book to remind how INDIA as nation was formed). No matter who you are,which state you belong to, you'll be branded and honoured as an INDIAN. Similarly, all the bonafide residents of MANIPUR(aboriginal) will be collectively known as MANIPURI. No matter, whether you are a KUKI, or so-called NAGA, PANGAL(Muslims in MAnipur) or MEITIE or an Adoptee HINDU, you are a MANIPURI if you are the aboriginals( But there is difficulty in classifying aboriginals).MANIPURI is not a mere NOMENCLATURE that represents only MEITEIS or HINDU-adopted-MEITIES. It is a GENERIC name that encompasses all the bonafide residents of MANIPUR. IT also sings the same tune as the word INDIAN hums.

As far as MAYANGS are concerned, they are those group of people who have been migrated from different parts of the nation to Manipur, but again they may come from deifferent religions or from different states. Whatever it is! we dont need to have an IDENTITY CRISIS. Whosoever you are, wheresoever from you are, if you are a citizen of the nation, then dont forget you are an INDIAN.

MEITEI AND MANIPURI are the synonymous terms in Manipuri vocabulary. Meitei refers to the name of the original valley inhabitants of Manipur. Among all different communities, Meiteis are the majority and whose language is the only channel of communication amongst different ethnic groups in the state.

And, in the Indian literature too, both the state inhabitants and the state language are known as Manipuri. Therefore, sometimes, this majority ethnic group, the Meiteis, are mistaken or misunderstood as the only Manipuris.

For our better understanding there was no such group of people known as Manipuri in the history of Manipur or elsewhere in the world. The concept of Manipuri refers to both the state language [Meiteilon] and the state people irrespective of Meiteis, Kukis, Nagas and others born in Manipur. In this manner, Meitei is Meitei, Naga is Naga, Kuki is Kuki and so on.The Manipuri literature, Manipuri dance, Manipuri language etc. are the constitutional reference terms which are meant for all items of the Manipuri soil.