CNBC TV 18 - India

We have two business channels CNBC TV 18 & NDTV Profit. I will review these channels now.

CNBC TV 18 - Excellent analysts, presentation skills. Being the first channel, they have gained good standing in the market over last 7 years or so. Hence, their ability to reach out excellent brains across the globe is very good. Udayan, ayesha, lata & mitali carry the show in excellent way. Too many rewind (of what the guest said) happens in this channel.

NDTV Profit - Being the well known news channel helps them to "break" the news lot better than CNBC. NDTV's analysis on economics is far better than what they speak normally about stock market. No noteworthy anchors in this channel. Lunch show in NDTV profit is the best part where we can meet and listen to CEOs regularly.

Overall, thumbs up to CNBC.

Ayyo

I warned you "n" times.. dont go to places where things are given "free"... Inimey Keppiya.. Keppiya?

Times of India - Chennai Edition

Welcome relief for chennai news paper readers finally.... Neatly packaged paper with lots of local news. Plentyof filmy news in supplements, reasonable editorial, lots and lots of sports coverage... what else you want to wake up to....
The sad part is The Hindu had cut the price of the paper due to competition rather than patronage.... Sad that we were paying so much of money over so many years for the only available paper as they made huge money with loads of advertisement....
The reality of competition forced Hindu to cut prices.... Foolish on our part :(

Losing My Virginity

Hey... Come on... i am not writing about me losing my virginity.... it is the autobiography of Richard Branson... I read the 2007 edition and found it very very very interesting.
His entrepreneurship comes out very well from the book especially his early days of setting up of Student magazine or the record shop. Balloon adventure is expressed in an amazing way in three different episodes. Overall a terrific book to read.

IPL - chennai

Man1: Enna mamu... IPL ticket vanginiya?
Man2: No machi... 3 hour matchukku 600 rooba ticket-a? romba bongu...
Man 1: summava... evlo periya aalungallam varanga... summa vaanguppa...
Man 2: Machi... indha ticket kasu avangallukku illey... scene podara actor-kku
Man 1: Ah han... appadinnu solrey.... dhoni-kku 6 kodi pochuppa...
Man 2: Nanna kodukka sonnen.... ada poppa.

Priyanka Gandhi - Nalini Meeting

I must congratulate Sonia for taking this extra ordinary move. It is a very difficult decision and she did deserve to clean up the mental agony. It is anyday better to talk it out rather than to wake up with bad mid night dream.
Nalini also must have gone through the effect of "life after the crime". So it is not a one way route for both.
I am just wondering whether what Priyanka Gandhi did was part of Landmark Forum exercise- a US based company which conducts character bulding education courses to clean up the past.
I think, people should treat this as private act and not speculate on what they spoke.

Hoardings in Chennai

TN Govt moved swiftly to remove the unathorised hoardings in Chennai city after the verdict of supreme court.

City now looks defnitely better - just see the Panagal park or Church park on mount road... damn good. Kudos to corporation officials for such a swift move. Well done.