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Transported!

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A Lovely Saturday! The London Transport Museum was awesome, just as most museums in this city ! They had lots of display models. The fun part was when they have an entire scene in a glass box as a model (of building or running tube lines) and they have little magnifying glasses with a speaker above them, as soon as you look through that piece of lens you will a small scene of the model and you can hear a fictitious conversation ! They have many trains where you can pop in check out the train. In one such, they have a man standing there just to say Mind The Gap ! :) (I actually got freaked out when he said it) Then there are the posters of course! Lovely posters. The tube always had the best posters! They have a room that has various posters projected on its floor, ceiling, anywhere,... They have a brilliant animation of the tube maps and the changes across the years - 1863 - 2003. Check out this youtube video that someone captured. Watch with mute. Got tired a

Snow and Spring!

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A header for my first snow !!!

Calendars and Women!

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A very persistent woman asked me to review her book. It was hard to ignore her ( :) ) and even harder to ignore the book once you have started it. A Calendar Too Crowded , a collection of short sketches, attempts to capture the spirit (or the lack of it) of the various "days" set aside in the global calendars for recognition of the women kind and the social evils suppressing them. A very strong theme but a very tough theme too. Each sketch brings to light a different problem faced by women. Not all external, not all the cliched atrocities against women. At every step, a women's decision is questioned, if not, her powerlessness against a decision. Sagarika Chakraborty (the author) brought out a great many faces to a woman. However, there are many more and that's how it will always be. Nevertheless, Sagarika tried to show the world the strength and weakness of a woman. The language and the narrative changes from story to story. Sometimes it seem

Brand Wars spilling Ink

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Lots of blogs have written about this and everyone seems to have two cents to spare. So here I go, two pennies. If the pen is mightier than the sword, and two pens are war, there is bound to be blotches all over. To put things in perspective. The Times of India came up with campaign directly hitting at The Hindu Wake up to the Times of India: And as a reply to that The Hindu came up with an ad campaign and lots of mudslinging. Stay ahead of the Times: To which yet again Times of India replied with the following print ad. The funny thing is that all the ads are telling you the same thing. The Times of India wants to position itself as a very fun newspaper with all its interesting news bites and attracts the young to stay young. The Hindu wants to position itself as a very serious newspaper that encourages the young to stay informed about current affairs. Living in the south, even as a schoolgirl I knew The Hindu's perspective was seriou