India Blog Watch

Most of the time, we generally say this by chance — what is the difference between our and their country? I mean developed and developing or rich and poor countries. However it is not just a statement there lies a difference as well, no not of their age or existence but there are certainly some valid reasons behind why Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are more rich and established than India and Africa even though we are 2000 years old? The post ‘Difference between rich and poor countries’ is fully well-heeled with all the exclusively written convincing rejoinders about why we are like this and infact what is the real difference.

For most of us, it is not a new thing watching series of product ads on TV sets endorsed by big stars from fields like sports, bollywood etc. Marketers hook all these stars, so as to endorse n numbers of commercials these days. Stars are doing it for money but what these ads are actually portraying – utter nonsense. No doubt many of them are splendid too. However, as per the latest trend in ad world, bigger the star I mean endorser, muddier the concept. Kanupriya too is disgusted with this trend or mad ad world, her post ‘Ad or Mad : No more bombardment with nonsense ads please’ reveals with high-spirited writing knack this facet of ad world.

Once more, the common man’s pocket has been striked. The Petroleum Minister, after long discussions and debates has finally increased fuel prices – now onwards, petrol will be dearer by 4 rupees and diesel by 2. Tandon’s post ‘Fuel price hike – India’ is casting some serious doubt regarding this steep fuel price hike.

President A P J Abdul Kalam undertakes a historic 30 minutes foray on the much talked about IAF’s Sukhoi-30 MKI. This is the spanking news story for journalists and all the media giants. Repeated telecast of the events and full description by the anchors and the reporters covering beats make us aware about the happenings. However, many a time we witness that the anchors and reporters do not have concrete background of the facts and are not aware of the correct data. The post ‘A Day of Sukhois (and Imbeciles)’ highlights the slip ups that media giants did while covering President Kalam’s Sukhoi-30 MKI ride.

The moment we start remembering some of the best movies of Bollywood, we just can’t delete and overshadow the name Hrishikesh Mukherjee, ‘Hrishida’ to his fans. He is critically ill these days and batelling for his life. The post ‘Nostalgia : Rewinding Hrishikesh Mukherjee’ is all set to take us to the excellent work of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, the post is an in depth glimpse at his work.

One thing that most of us who are regular Hindi movie buffs would have noticed is that gradually, the trend of climax songs is going out of fashion. The post ‘Kaha gaye ye Bollywood gems?’ by Jayesh is the implicit delineation of the fact with admirable illustration of the songs- I mean climax songs, so if you wanna get back to climax song just read what Jayesh has to say.

India has been really developing these days in all the fields. It has even has shown a sharp increase in the number of HIV infected people as well. We have grown from a few thousand in 1990s to around 5.1 million children and adults till 2003. If you wana have look at the recent hierarchy of aida affected staes in India then Surya S’s post ‘AIDS-Morals-Conversions’ is just the right the piece of writing.

Ladakh, which is a part of J&K and is in the Trans Himalayan region of India, and infact is the most stunning and imposing range of the world, nowadays is rapidly converting in to the most adventure zone of the world. The post ’8 million pictures of Ladakh’ is superbly pictorial view of Ladakh for those who have plans to go there and is an outstanding informative piece for those who are interested in analyzing natural beauty.

After South Africa, India has the maximum number of HIV\AIDS affected people and the count is incresing but the sad thinmg is that still our government has not done much. Nevertheless, people have pulled out arms against the dreaded diseases, especially those who are affected, they are all geared up to make others aware about the diseases as they were not when they got affected. The post ‘What did marriage bring me?’ is introducing a sample of this type of story and wants to bring such stories in focus.

Did you know that today we have 100 million cell phone users in India, officially? Kamla Bhatt in her post ’100 Million Cell Phones in India.It is official…’ too is unfolding how we have reached this landmark and what are the future prospects. The post is succinct in nature and to the point with terrific writing tactics.