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The blogger who is interviewed this week is an Al-Avalathi as he calls himself :). He is an NITian and works for HP as a Customer Insights Consultant. He is one of the early adopters of Internet and a big fan of Google and Wikipedia. He blogs at Nikhil’s Musings. A blogger who stays in Bangalore but has his heart in Kerala. Here are Nikhil’s witty answers for you.
Movie watching is certainly one the most elementary leisure activities enjoyed by many like me but despite being an avid movie viewer my movie consumption has always been limited to mainly Bollywood or Hollywood ones.
Till recently, I was blissfully unaware of the depth of this genre known as “world cinema”, in fact to me world cinema has always been synonymous to parallel cinema or something which is vague & esoteric. I had watched only counted number of world cinemas in past & that too very famous ones; based on those movies I had this perception of world cinema being a genre in which you’ll never know when a movie has started & when it ended. But how wrong I was!
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Abhivandan (Hello in Hindi). We were greeted this morning with the news that Gangubai Hangal, who mesmerized audiences with her melodious voice for over six decades is no more. May her soul RIP.
The Astrologers will be in demand today & will be featured on all the news channels with their views on the Solar eclipse which will happen tomorrow. Eclipse or Sunshine, we would be here with our top picks week after week to serve you the best.
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The previous week winners to #perkytweets were the lucky few to catch the Harry Potter 6 Premiere :). We are here to make your Mondays Perkier – you read/listen to this and your whole week becomes productive, sounds fun, eh?
Our Perky Tweets will make your Monday a happy one and your tweets win goodies as well, courtesy Radio One & BlogAdda. Do not forget to tune in to 94.3 FM Radio One tonight and listen to the perky tweets read out by Malini on her show ‘Malini till Midnight’. Follow us on twitter to know who are the lucky ones to win the goodies from Radio One 🙂
Namaskaaramulu (Hello in Telugu). The rains finally hit Mumbai and the city was crippled with less than 200 mm of rain. Where are the crores of rupees spent by the BMC reflected? Taj hotel is abuzz today with activity as Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived :). We ca guess what tomorrow’s headlines in newspapers would be. 🙂 Or keep watching India TV to know the ‘insightful’ headlines!!
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Dina Mehta is among India’s best-known bloggers and social media observers. She is a friend and Advisor to Global Voices Online, a Sub-Board Member of the Information Program at Open Society Institute and is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Mosoci India. She is at the forefront of technology trend research in India and works with a global portfolio of companies including learning journeys and immersions for innovation teams. As her blog title aptly suggests, let’s have Conversations with Dina.
