Archive for January, 2005

Satara Stampede

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

One more in the long list of accidents in India killing hundreds of people. When will we learn the value of human life. It is getting sick. My heartfelt condolences for the affected. Hopefully we will learn and make proper arrangements in future.

Benny Hinn and Bandh

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005

Yesterday was the start of 3 day Benny Hinn’s event. He is an evangelist preacher from US who is participating in a Pray for India prayer meeting in Bangalore. Some 3 million people are expected which includes a few Chief ministers and other VIPs. The BJP and a few other fundamentalist organisations smelled an [...]

Media Review December 2004 - I

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

TeleVision
The news of December is the Asian Tsunami disaster. It was covered extensively by local, national and international media.
Sun News was the first to start coverage and it was pretty detailed as far as TN is concerned.It was even news oriented in the beginning until they figured out the political mileage they can get out [...]

Year 2004

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

The year 2004 is over. Its been a pretty bad year overall especially for TamilNadu. Quite a few of major fire accidents including the Kumbakonam school and to end it all the mother of all disasters, the Tsunami. In a way, its good that its over and hopefully 2005 will prove much batter [...]