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AJITH you have come a long way from that cartoon you drew for my piece on State Arts Festival...I remember our walking along through the whole of MG road to do what we can very well call our first independent assignment...
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SAJITH is a Cartoonist working at The Financial Chronicle in New Delhi. “I’m accused of cutting people to their right size. In my defence, I would say I have done it with the finesse of a surgeon. A stranded Islander, I might come across to you, it’s the eternal angst and hyper myopia that sometimes make me look like an alien. But all the while, I’m piling up my karma points, to prepare for my afterlife as a seagull...” So no more explanation required! SAJITH completed his Master degree in Communication & Journalism and wanted to become a Cartoonist! Before joining FC he has worked with The New Indian Express and Outlook Magazine. I am sure, one day he will come up with an innovative Graphic Novel!
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PICTURE PERFECT DELHI 2012 was a great success. It was Sheila Dikshit, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi and ace photographer Raghu Rai who took keen interest in judging the winners. Manvender Vashist baged the first prize (Rs. 100,000/-). Jyoti Kapoor, Gaurav Chhabra and Subhash Paul won the second prize (Rs, 75,000/). Ashish Rehi, Ashwani K Sharma, Amarjeet Kumar Singh, Manish and Mahesh Singh won the third prize (Rs. 50,000/-)
BUY IT FROM FLIPKART ‘False Sanctuaries’: Rekindling hope for dark subcontinent You cannot shun war and run away from the death and destruction that follows you. You cannot dodge the fear of terrorism, bomb blasts or a fidayeen. You cannot shut yourself to the latest round of intifada or Kani Jung, threatening to suck life out of your hinges. You cannot avoid these things now in the 21st century’s new war zone – South Asia. Yet you live, smile, shake off the dust as if nothing happened and move on braving all odds and, YOU are the hero of ‘False Sanctuaries: Stories from the troubled territories of South Asia.’ Author: Meenakshi Iyer Publisher: Bibliophile South Asia (Promila & Co.) Pages: 282; Price: Rs.395
tweets of the week
Sagarika Ghose @sagarikaghose Chidu: taxing super rich may be needed. Assocham: taxing rich will affect biz sentiment. How will govt raise revenue? Manodnya Sapre @Manodnya Indian Budget is like giving unwanted grants, raising the amount on various schemes which hardly few people are benefited thus raising taxes. Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal Mumbai rail mess shows how off-track the Indian Railways is- need Dinesh Trivedi’s budget - Moneylife magazine. Nirupama Rao @NMenonRao Ang Lee signs off with Xie Xie and Namaste! Thanks his Indian crew and calls Suraj Sharma “a miracle”! Raju Narisetti @rajunarisetti Social Media should work for our business models not the other way around. Swapna Kulkarni @swapku @PritishNandy Brilliant piece! Put to words what a lot of us think. “Growth for the sake of growth is the mentality of a cancer cell.”
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rt lovers gathered in huge numbers at the NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla Industrial Estate, New Delhi to experience the wonderful India Art Fair 2013. At a time when the global economy, and the art market in particular, faces a challenging business environment, India Art Fair continues to focus on providing a bridge building platform to spread deeper awareness, and create wider access to art in India. The art fair included 103 exhibitors from 23 countries in the general exhibition area and solo projects. It has also included a video lounge, an art bookstore, art projects and a speakers’ Forum with over 40 eminent speakers. India Art Fair brought together a diverse and dynamic set of galleries and artists, showcasing a breadth of modern and contemporary art practices by established and emerging artists including painting, sculpture, new media, installation and performance art. It offered international galleries a world class platform to present their works and explore the Indian art market, to meet now collectors and build relationships with key stakeholders.
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We are living in a time of turbulent change, putting pressure on businesses of all sizes and across all industries. The world is also changing, in other fundamental ways. It is becoming smaller, flatter and smarter.
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t is a global conversation about how the planet is becoming smarter. By smarter, they mean that intelligence is being infused into the systems and processes that make the world work—into things no one would recognize as computers: cars, appliances, roadways, power grids, clothes, even natural systems such as agriculture and waterways. Trillions of digital devices, connected through the Internet, are producing a vast ocean of data. And all this information— from the flow of markets to the pulse of societies—can be turned into knowledge because now we have the computational power and advanced analytics to
make sense of it. With this knowledge we can reduce costs, cut waste, and improve the efficiency, productivity and quality of everything from companies to cities. A year into this new era, the signs of a smarter planet are all around us. Smarter systems are being implemented and are creating value in every major industry, across every region in both the developed and developing worlds. This idea isn’t a metaphor, or a vision, or a proposal—it’s a rapidly emerging reality. In a study of 439 cities, for those that employ transportation congestion solutions—including ramp metering, signal coordition and incident management—travel
delays were reduced on average by more than 700,000 hours annually and nearly $15 million was saved by each. A yearlong study by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that consumers within smart meter systems saved 10% on their power bills and cut their power usage by 15% during peak hours. Eight hospitals and 470 primary care clinics implementing smarter healthcare systems across their facilities—by making information available to practitioners at the point of care and applying insights into organizational performance—were able to improve clinical results and operational efficiency by up to 10%.
The Hindu Lit For Life event was a grand success. And it was covered live by the students of the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. They used CoveritLive’s EventStudio for the live webcasting. Also created a Twitter handle and a Facebook page to support the event. Event videos were uploaded through Youtube. It was a delightful experience to see the students of New Media at ACJ experimenting on a new medium. And they have made a mark on it. Well done guys and girls. Never have I as a teacher felt so proud as I did today, time and again, when I was told, face to face, via email or on social media networks and text messages on my hand phone, that the New Media Students of Asian College of Journalism had done a mindblowing job of liveblogging The Hindu Lit for Life. Kalyan Arun
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SlideShare Flexibility the Key to Filling IT Skill Gaps. Most leaders in the IT field are expecting some level of negative impact from the IT skill gap, but few have a holistic plan to mitigate the shortage. adVIDS Creative Director in Pune The Creative Director is responsible for the creative output of adVIDS, with oversight of the creative team and the creative processes; the ideation, presentation and execution of providing the client with a satisfactory solution; the creative quality of client projects and operational readiness of the creative team, all in fulfillment of our brand promise to our clients. Srinivasan Ravi Business Line: If the fiscal deficit is a problem, it is because of its high revenue deficit component, which crowds out creation of productive capacity as well as private investment. India’s imports of electronics products are surging. Osama Manzar Diverted attention or being absent will be biggest challenge of information or knowledge or connected society. Andrine Mendez Rubin Thomas: So just another regular interview session in my old office at Kochi & this lean guy walks in. Looking at his resume and his face the glow of some being associated with... this guy had immense positive vibe even without uttering a word. Rita J. King A company simply cannot attract top talent by banning remote work. A memo from Yahoo! to workers today put them on notice that in order to “become the absolute best place to work...”