Manoj pointed me to these two links that neatly sum up Pakistan’s schizophrenia with regards India:
1] Pak says no to Chennai-made (Nokia) phones: “The three to four authorised distributors of Nokia in Pakistan have offered their regrets to Nokia as they think that consumers will give a cold response to the Indian product…”…Not just that but “The (Pakistan) government had not allowed the entry of Indian made mobile phone sets in Pakistan and it may not allow the same in future, the newspaper said…”
2] Ash-Abhishek wedding catches imagination of Pakistanis: “The Aishwarya-Abhishek Bachchan “dream wedding” made waves in Bollywood crazy Pakistan with the media here going on a feeding frenzy over the event.
The wedding in Big B’s household remained a top story for several days on Pakistani TV channels like Geo and ARY which deployed special staff to anchor “exclusive” features highlighting various events of the wedding…
The print media splashed the story on the front pages today, with photographs and details of the marriage….Bollywood has a large fan following in Pakistan even though the movies are banned in theatres.” ( - See this post for reference)
Thanks Manoj.
April 24th, 2007
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Some of you may remember a post I wrote earlier this year mentioning an unusual (and very innovative) initiative in various cities in India that involved training students (and particularly girl students) from scheduled tribes and scheduled castes for cutting-edge jobs in the private sector.
A few weeks ago, I came across another initiative which struck me as a novel and truly path-breaking effort to promote literacy in some of the desperately poor tribal areas of Orissa.
The lady who is directing this effort is Parama Karuna-ji. Parama-ji is Italian in origin…but is as far removed as you can think from India’s most famous lady who shares her country of birth.
She runs a school near Puri in Orissa imparting education to rural children from nearby villages. Unlike most other charitable initiatives, Parama’s efforts are aimed (in her own words) at “creating a wave of self-reliant, responsible, proactive people to become genuine leaders and members of an ideal Hindu society at global level, making Bharat a true leader of Nations”
There is more information available at www.pavan.org.in and you can reach Parama-ji on paramakaruna AT rediffmail.com OR paramakaruna AT gmail.com [ OR xparamakaruna AT yahoo.com ]
Parama-ji and her organisation needs support and help.
If you feel, you can contribute anything at all, please do get in touch with her…I think at the very least you will be impressed by her sincerity and commitment to the welfare of these children.
April 24th, 2007
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Nitin (from The Acorn) has this gem of a comment on RealityCheck’s post from the day of Ash-Abhi (or is it Abhi-Ash) wedding: “Around the Blogosphere“:
“Mr Arjun Singh is in a hole. And he’s trying to get out of it by digging ever more.
You would think that’s a bad strategy of getting out of the hole.
But he’s perhaps counting that if he digs a sufficiently wide hole, everyone will be in it…(sorry for this tortuous metaphor, but these are extraordinary times)”
Brilliant!
April 24th, 2007
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