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(Venice, Italy) The fourth edition of Crossroads of Civilization, Venice's literary festival, was, for me, like going home, surrounded by my own kind. Listening to fiction writers attempt to describe their creative process to an audience always makes me smile. Unlike journalism and other forms of non-fiction, creating literary works of the imagination is such a strange process, even to an author, that it is difficult to explain in practical terms. There is a strange communication between the subconscious mind and the fingertips that often doesn't reach an author's consciousness until after publication, or even years later. Nathan Englander, one of the speakers at the conference, (and the only American) said, "We are working as an innocent. We don't know what we are writing about." Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul said, "Writing is a kind of magic. Since we are in [Venice] the land of glass-making, it's similar to blowing glass. You don't know how it's going to come out. It's true of writing, too." The late Norman Mailer wrote a book about the process and called it "The Spooky Art." Here are my own thoughts from a recent Facebook conversation:
As a novelist, the thrill is to watch the characters become individuals. I can't force them to do anything they don't want to do. It's something magical. I think God is like that, and is bored by sameness. Otherwise, why do we exist? To me, the only other reason would be: to be a slave and do the boring work that a god doesn't want to do.
|V.S. Naipaul
Connecting minds through writing and reading is an intimate liaison; the mind processes information it receives by reading in an entirely different way than watching a film or listening to music. Until Incroci di Civiltà, which connected writers from different parts of the world, I don't think I quite comprehended how powerful that connection can be, and why strong voices continue to be suppressed by totalitarian governments. The Russian poet, Joseph Brodsky, and the American poet, Ezra Pound, both of whom were institutionalized by their respective countries, are buried here, adding their voices to a chorus of writers throughout the centuries who gathered in Venice and suffered to be heard -- a fertile foundation for a fledging international literature festival named Incroci di Civiltà.
There was a wonderful spirit of collaboration between the different venues that participated in Incroci di Civiltà. It was the first time I had attended the literary conference, but I am very familiar with the venues, which are some of the most distinguished settings that Venice has to offer. The Malibran, the Santa Margherita Auditorium, the Punta della Dogana, the Palazzo Ducale, the Querini Stampalia, the Giorgione Theater, the Casinò, the Ateneo Veneto and Ca' Foscari University all opened their doors and let in a breath of civilization. In addition, almost every major organization in town was a partner or a collaborator, with roots that reach to France, England, Italy, Venice, Germany, Spain, the US, Greece, Iceland, China, Poland, Cypress -- even Europe itself was represented by the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation. In case I missed someone, click HERE to read my Crossroads of Civilization - International Literature Festival in Venice blog to read the line-up, and who collaborated with whom.
|A.S. Byatt
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At the end of each writer's talk, they were asked what they thought of the term "Incroci di Civiltà," or "Crossroads of Civilization." V.S. Naipaul said it was European with an Eastern flavor, and that it was too "romantic," which seemed to disappoint one of the organizers. I thought, "Well, somebody has to be romantic in the world today. And Venice is the most romantic city on earth. Of course a Venetian literary festival would be romantic!" Afterwards, I read Naipal's In a Free State, which won the Booker Award. The character Linda says: "I always thought you were a romantic, Bobby," to which Bobby replies: "You chose the wrong man."
More thoughts about "Crossroads of Civilization from other writers:
Wladimir Kadimir - Russian Jew living in Berlin who writes in German.: "An opportunity to transform the charm of Europe to the future. I don't know if Europe is ready for this charm."
Dubravka Ugrešić - Yugoslav Croatian writer living in Amsterdam: "Beautiful fusions, ideas, concepts, food, music..."
Etgar Keret - Israeli writer living in Tel Aviv, Israel: "Times are very special. Reality is not very normal. It will get crazier and crazier. A violent and dangerous meeting point."
Jón Kalman Stefánsson - Icelandic writer living in Iceland: "A place to share art. In a world of hatred and negative things, art can make the difference."
A.S. Byatt - English writer living in Sheffield, UK: "Like a temptation. A world culture."
After Ezra Pound was set free from nearly thirteen years of internment at St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington D.C. (now set to be the new home of the Department of Homeland Security), he was interviewed in 1960 by Donald Hall for the Paris Review. Pound said, "I am writing to resist the view that Europe and civilization are going to Hell. If I am being 'crucified for an idea' -- that is, the coherent idea around which my muddles accumulated -- it is probably the idea that European culture ought to survive, that the best qualities of it ought to survive along with whatever other cultures, in whatever universality. Against the propaganda of terror and the propaganda of luxury, have you a nice simple answer?"
I didn't get to experience every writer, but the conversations I did attend were fascinating, especially because of the different, yet similar, points of view, based on the writers' personal experience. Dubravka Ugrešić was born in 1949 in Croatia, the former Yugoslavia, living in Amsterdam. To add to the mix, her panel was in collaboration with Palazzo Grassi, owned by the Frenchman, François Pinault, and Wake Forest University in North Carolina, USA. The history of Yugoslavia itself is complex; click Wikipedia to learn more. Tito said of the country he ruled, "I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities."
Ugrešić lived in Berlin and Boston before settling in Amsterdam. She expressed nostalgia for the Yugoslavia she knew before it fell apart, and said she was Yugo-nostalgic when it was dangerous to have that label because it implied you were a communist, "which is stupid." After the war, she said there was a time when they were creating a totally new state and you could not watch movies or television; it felt like "somebody is forcing you to forget your life." She said she wrongly believed that the past was going to be deleted, and that they would no longer be able to see films from the fifties. Instead, Yugo-nostalgia became commercial -- there is wine with Tito's signature; socks with Tito's image; Tito's Favorite Meals cookbook. Now she does not feel nostalgia, but tremendous anger. "Why did the war happen? All that is put aside because these are the most painful questions. Now it's like everything is okay, which it certainly is not." Serious discussion about what the war was is dangerous. She feels cheated and robbed because the war was not for democracy or a grand idea, but a business project. Twenty years later the people live worse and worse rather than better and better. She said she witnessed the construction of new identities. There were TV commercials that asked: "Do you have an identity?" They were required to say what nationality they were; what religion they were, etc., for an identity card. She said that twenty years ago more than a million and a half Yugoslavians, Serbs, Macedonians, Croatians, Bosnians, etc. did not want to be anything in particular. They were happy to be simply Yugoslavian.
Etgar Keret was born in Tel Aviv in 1967. He writes short, dark stories that can be read on a bus and wants to write a novel, but "doesn't know how to explode slowly." He is a self-proclaimed control freak since both parents were Holocaust survivors and he grew up wondering if the Nazis were going to turn him in. He writes to lose control and express the irresponsible part of himself. "Nobody in real life gets hurt; the real world and your self are not in danger." He said that after reading his stories, people expect him to show up in leather on a bike, and are surprised: "You are a nice boy!" He said he felt like a spy in real life. His wife does not like that he invites taxi drivers into their home to use the toilet, but he can feel when the driver needs to use the toilet, and where else can he go? He says he glued his wife upside down on the ceiling in a story to be able to communicate with her and have gravity give her a smile. "The earth is against a smile."
He said that Israel is a paradox. There is a strong affinity to religion, but they are open-minded and gay-friendly with a liberal Supreme Court. Yet right next door there are territories where people have no rights. He said they are told in Israel they have the best (as in moral) army in the world. He said it was like saying you are the best pizzeria in Germany. "You are an army!" He said when he takes his toddler to the park to play with the other children that the conversations are about what they are going to do when the tots are eighteen-years-old and have to join the army. One would leave the country. Another would get a medical exemption. He said it was not a natural situation.
When asked about the Middle East, Eget said, "I don't know. Writers don't know how to fix situations. The Jews and the Palestinians both have a history of persecution. It's more like a contest about who has suffered more, who is the bigger victim." He said he was a compulsive optimist. "Now is not the time to sit back and let history take its course. Every person who wants to see a better world has to do something about it. The people must help create the world in which they want to live."
Wladimir Kaminer is a Jew born in Moscow in 1967, who now lives in Berlin and writes in German. He is also a well-known disc jokey. When asked about German Chancellor Angela Merkel's statement: "Multiculturalism is a total failure," he said that something more is required than simply lifting the borders between nations. He called Germans "true representatives of enlightenment," and that what is needed are clear ideas. He said that Berlin was not Germany, and was in danger of succumbing to the same fate as Venice -- becoming a tourist attraction -- and that the "inhabitants don't want to be animals in a zoo." He said that after the war, the Germans as victims were the real winners, and proved that traumatized people can rise from the ashes. "Russia cannot go on living as if nothing happened. They must acknowledge the concentration camps and what Stalin did. Trauma can bring advantages -- to learn from history and not participate in conflicts; not take part in wars." He said that "citizens have to develop a sense of responsibility. Politicians are obsolete. No politicians can solve problems."
Nathan Englander was born in New York in 1970, where he returned after living in Jeruselem for about six years. He wrote The Ministry of Special Cases set in Argentina in 1976 on the day of the coup because he wanted to write a novel about how politics invade one man. He said, "Nothing has to happen is my view of the world." He said he grew up as a fifth-generation Holocaust survivor in what he considered a very American family in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. "Normal people to me were Jewish people." He moved to Jerusalem and wrote his acclaimed collection of short stories, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. "Israel was the first place where I wasn't Jewish. The good guys and the bad guys were all wearing yarmulkes. I got to be an American for five or six years." From a 2001 interview with This Year in Jerusalem, compiled by Ken George called, "Lost and Found in Jerusalem:"
Englander discovered the city as a college student and nostalgically recalls mountain biking down dirt paths and fields through Jerusalem suburbs. He bemoans the frenetic urbanization that is forever altering a familiar landscape: bike paths are now paved highways; hills have been shorn of their peaks to accommodate new neighborhoods.
More distressing to him is the violence. Israeli commuters on those paved highways are now snipers' targets; daytrips to Englander's favorite Palestinian villages are no longer possible because of closures and reprisal shelling by Israel.
The end of the peace process is what will ultimately cause Englander to abandon the city he loves. "If they want to turn this into the Balkans, I'm gone," he says.
Jón Kalman Stefánsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1963, where he lives. He spoke about the recent eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, "the volcano with the unpronounceable name." He said that nature reminds us that she is in charge when a minor eruption of a volcano in Iceland had such a great impact on the world. He said, "We are all part of Mother Nature and we should listen. Within five years, this eruption will be forgotten." When it comes to the Icelandic language versus English, he said that English threatens English. He said, "English will die because everyone speaks it badly," and the question is shall we switch to Latin or shall we go on killing English? In 2008, during the crisis the Icelandic economy collapsed overnight. The people in Reykjavik took to the streets with pots and pans, which was dubbed the "Household Revolution," and knocked down the government. From The Times, January 27, 2009:
The global economic crisis claimed its first government yesterday when Iceland's ruling coalition collapsed amid a cacophony of popular protest. The Government of Geir Haarde, the Prime Minister, resigned en masse after days of mounting anger over the country's financial meltdown.The protests, which began peacefully after the nationalisation and overnight bankruptcy of Iceland's three main banks, turned violent last week with the nation experiencing its worst riots in 60 years. At their height 32,000 people — more than 10 per cent of Iceland's population — took to the streets of Reykjavik banging pots and pans in what came to be known as the "Household Revolution".
Stefánsson said that books are highly regarded in Iceland, and that "literature overcomes our 'no way out' situation. "Literature is a fight against materialism to be free without any limitations. The more we write good literature, the less materialism will rule." He said it was dangerous when America, the most powerful country in the world, seemed to have no desire to know other cultures, which creates a narrow-minded vision. When asked what his greatest influence was, he said, "The Beatles." He said his oldest sister gave him the Beatles music in 1974 when he was ten-years-old, when they did not play together any more, which made him sad. He felt his mission was to bring the Beatles back together. He wanted to go speak to them, but then John Lennon was killed. He bought a guitar, hoping to join the band, but then George Harrison died, too, and he had to give up that dream.
"I like inventing imaginary works of art that I could never make." A.S. Byatt
"The minute the world changes, something else comes up." V.S. Naipaul
"Ego surfing on the Internet is one of the worst disorders that affect writers." Alessandro Piperno
|Allesandro Piperno
"Everything has been said but no one is listening, so we have to say it all over again." Joann Sfar
"All artists are eccentric. You need solitude." A.S. Byatt
"With a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, I am the son of two enemies." Allesandro Piperno
"With a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, I am the son of two enemies." Allesandro Piperno
"As a writer, I am responsible for the past. I do not consider visions for the future." Wladimir Kaminer
|Igiaba Scego
"Traveling is a human right." Igiaba Scego
"My ancestors were potters. Making objects is one of the most interesting things human beings do, and one of the least dangerous." A.S. Byatt
"Tragedy is a blind alley. Learn to laugh. Take it with humor, then you can find a way out. When a situation is not tolerable, people tell jokes." Wladimir Kaminer
"Why should I be pinned by ethnic identity? I am a representative of literature." Dubravka Ugrešić
"I was very proud of the separation between church and state before we started dismantling basic democracy." Nathan Englander
"I don't make the world. I just observe it." V.S. Naipaul
"High Hebrew was a written, not spoken, language for 2,000 years before they took it out and defrosted it. There is no word for 'car,' no words for modern inventions. A sentence can switch from high Hebrew to slang and back again. It's like the King James Bible and rap in the same sentence." Etgar Keret
"I do not think we will save the planet." A.S. Byatt
"A hundred years after the Heart of Darkness, we are still there. What are we to do?" V.S. Naipaul
|Joann Sfar
"We have a right to say how we would like the world to be." Joann Sfar
Ciao from Venice,
P.S. After publishing this blog, I received a kind invitation to view Contemporary Literary Horizon, an "INDEPENDENT, BILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL MAGAZINE OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AND SPIRITUALITY"


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Friday, February 01, 2008
Later on, the wife sent an army of acolytes and security guards to take away Avirook's computer, at which point all hell broke loose in the newsroom. Supposedly names were called and some people were roughed up in the newsroom, and the party ended with not just a few bruised egos, but some bruises. Anyway, the day ended with five people being fired and a further nine quitting. More people were fired today morning and according to one person over fifty people have quit after organising jobs at other channels. Members of the newsroom are wearing black armbands and are looking for jobs.
This has gone from being a televised drama to full-fledged Bollywood tear-jerker. Given the incestuous and friend nature of the media,. events at INX Media are the talking point of every media office today morning and will be for a while. Further updates to come through the day and comments by those who witnessed the events, from 'either' side are welcome to comment.
UPDATE : We have the text of Nag's resignation letter which I have cut-and-pasted from his website.
My Resignation Letter
from: Narendra Nag to: Vynsley Fernandes cc: nick pollard, saubhik chakrabarti, Dhruva Sen, Indrani Mukerjea, Peter Mukerjea date Feb 1, 2008 12:49 PMsubject My dismissal
Dear Vynsley,
In a meeting with anchors on Thursday, January 31, 2008, NewsX chairperson Indrani Mukerjea told some of my colleagues that I, along with others like Executive Editor Avirook Sen, Head of Domestic News Rajesh Sundaram and Editorial Adviser Nick Pollard would be asked to leave NewsX "very soon". My email was blocked soon after -- around 6.30 Thursday evening.
That I had to find out my services are no longer required in this manner has left me shocked and disappointed -- especially, considering the email you sent me just last week praising my good work since I joined here April 1, 2007. In the same email you told me I was up for a raise.
As you may appreciate, these events have made my position here untenable. That you would not know about my dismissal -- as you and Dhruva indicated in our conversation late Thursday evening when I returned the laptop issued to me -- is difficult for me to believe.
In recent times I have seen, with increasing dismay, the manner in which this organisation has been run: the scant regard for journalists is only the tip of the iceberg -- the manner in which senior management has chosen to operate leaves me with the firm conviction that professionalism is a word to be bandied about but disregarded in every activity -- that respect and dignity are alien concepts -- that NewsX has become an organisation few would want to work for and almost no one would hold as an example of how a world class news channel should be created, or run. You may, of course, choose to disagree.
As one of the first few employees of this place, it pains me greatly that I have been summarily dismissed in so cavalier a fashion -- I can only hope for the sake of those people who continue to work at NewsX that Thursday's dismissals -- Avirook Sen, Arun Roy Chowdhury, Kailash Menon, Rajesh Sundaram and myself -- are exceptions rather than the rule.
I am writing in protest against the complete lack of professionalism of Mrs Indrani Mukerjea and the way she has ridden rough shod over all journalistic ethics. The last straw was the mistreatment of the channel's Executive Editor by a band of security guards and junior managers acting at the behest of the top management Thursday evening.
Such an incident is unparalleled in the history of Indian journalism. Not only do I question Mrs Indrani Mukerjea's credentials to run a channel, I am also perturbed by questions about the source of her funds. She has told the press that she owns over 60 per cent of NewsX. Is this her own money, or is she fronting for somebody? I believe an investigation is called for.
Please let me know my earliest date of release as per the terms of my contract.
Warm regards,
Narendra Nag
51 comments:
This is a war between journalism and corporate. For Mukherjee's and snakes NEWS 'X' is a business but for us it is more than. We die for News.. We have to fight for our rights then only we can bring justice to others... Keep the spirit going! The battle is on.....
A soldier,
- February 01, 2008 4:43 PM
This is not at all a war between journalism and corporate what are we talking here are u guys trying to tell the world that these supposedly fired ppl knew how to make a story with visuals then u must be fooling urself, this was bound to happen sooner or later they hired all their croonies and stated ganging up without knowing ABC of tv journalism. when we talk of tv its not how u put words and make a story its abt producton values in the story .GOD save INX
- February 01, 2008 5:04 PM
does anyone really care anymore?
- February 01, 2008 5:12 PM
What happened at the news X office..was not the firing of incompetent ppl...but total disregard of any ethics or professional conduct.
The ppl who were treated like measly gate crashers..being roughed up and thrown out by guards...were the ones who showed us the dream called "news X".
To those who were silent spectators- U dont deserve to call yourself journalists...and those who pledged their support to these corporate dictators are nothing but sell outs and corporate pimps.
Do u think that the mukherjeas care about the news channel? what it wishes ro achieve or the impact we create on society? All they care about is MONEY MONEY and more MONEy...which was quite evident in the morning presentation we attended yesterday by Peter.
The behavior displayed by the management has made it clear..that they will treat this news channel like a local "dukaan"..where the "seth" will insult and throw out anyone he doesnt like. This is a news channel..media is sed to be the backbone of a democracy...and if yesterdays events be seen in the bigger picture..they indicate a clear flow of the INdian democracy towards corporate dictatorship.
Guys, we are the voice of the nation. It is our responsibility to fight for those who cant...so will we not fight for some one who we all have loved and respected? Will we just sit quietly and whisper in low tones about how disgusting the incident was...but be scared..lest our "sethani" hears us from the receptors hanging all over the office? and fire us too?
When one hero misbehaves with a reporter...the entire industry attacks him..So will we sit and watch while our editor in chief was roughed up and mistreated by these business men? And dont forget if the editor, bureau head, etc were treated this way...what are u expecting from this management..when u are as dispensable to them as a ball point pen?
Avirook if u ever read this : i want u to know that we (atleast some of us) have shared ure dream...we believed in your vision and looked at u for direction. You are the only reason we did not panick when Vir left, for as long as u were there..we believed that the channel might become what we all together had dreamt it to become.
- February 01, 2008 5:51 PM
i seriuosly have no clues as to what has happenend.i dont think so newsx is turning out the way it was concieved by vir and avirook...its extremely appalling the way the management handled the whole issue...no other media organisation has ever done anything of this sort..it doesnt say anything good about the channel either....its clear case of corporate guys taking over the editorial policy..guys who dont even have one journalism bone in their body are calling the shots now....its amazing how can everyone just sit and watch this thing happen...
- February 01, 2008 6:16 PM
I do feel like what ever has been written, but nobody has got guts to stand-up and say whatever he feels... Nobody wants to risk his job 'Dreams' even not the people who were till yesterday tailing around Avirook sir and rajesh sir. All we need a leader who can drive us. There were smses around going about the black bands but the day was 'colorful'. We miss you Avirook and Rajesh.we dream to be a part of a bigger dream.
- February 01, 2008 6:34 PM
Like many people who have put up comments today, I'm also an employee of newsx and a journo and from print (!!) and having seen all the stuff that's written about the co. I work for, it seems to me that there is a lot of hot air and all of this is being taken way out of proportion. There were definitely no black armbands or 50 people having quit or quitting today. Yes, there was a lot of talk in the office about Avirook's departure and what is happening. And we are all concerned about what is going on, but ultimately we are professionals and here to do a job the best way we can.
Life was pretty much normal today, with everybody doing their jobs and no real noise. If people want to quit, then so be it. Everybody can have their opinions and make their stand if they so choose. But some of us just want to be able to do our jobs, and this kind of stupid stirring really is rather pathetic.
By the way, i was around when Avirook was asked to hand in his laptop. To be fair to Avirook, he was dignified throughout the process. The only idiot was Rajesh who made a complete fool of himself shouting at the top of his voice like some complete loony in the middle of the office. I'm sure Avirook would have far preferred a quiet dignified exit than the laughing stock he was made of by Rajesh.
- February 01, 2008 7:35 PM
I don't understand why there is so much Mukerjea bashing going on on this blog. Have they done something specific to you all, or are you just cowards who need to find someone to pick on to explain why you are not as successful as you want to be in your jobs. Grow up and get lives. Face it NewsX like all other news channels are here to make money. If the revenue wasn't coming in to the channels, you wouldn't all have cushy journalist jobs. You'd be sitting in some library stamping books. NewsX is a business like any other. Yes it needs great editors and journalists to make its news stories great and ensure that we have viewers, but it also needs good business people to help run it in a profitable way and ensure it makes money. Great stories, and no revenue does not guarantee jobs.
- February 01, 2008 7:47 PM
A delegation of Senior and Eminent Electronic Media Journalists and News Editors of NewsX Channel called on the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Shri P.R. Dasmunsi, today and explained about the injustice and the shocking treatment being meted out to them by the security staff and other persons and later on they were sacked.
Shri P.R. Dasmunsi has issued the following statement:
"Keeping in view the independence and autonomy of the Media, neither the Government nor the Ministry ever interferes and shall not intervene in the internal affairs or administration of any media house or channel. But the manner in which the eminent Editors have been treated and the rights of media personnel have been reportedly infringed upon is really a matter of great concern for free and fair journalism in the country. Minister has been apprised of the serious allegations including source of channel funding which Minister is not competent to react, and accordingly, has referred the matter to the concerned desk of the Finance Ministry to ascertain the facts through their investigation wing.
Minister makes an appeal to all media channels that whenever any media personnel is engaged on some contract, their contractual terms should be valued and honoured including the financial clauses. Otherwise, hire and fire mechanism shall not provide honour and confidence to the engaged media personnel in the country, wherever they may be".
- February 01, 2008 8:07 PM
Who is wimpy last anonymous? "You'd be sitting in some library stamping books. NewsX is a business like any other...." huh sorry NONE of us great writers & journos are stamping books either before or after wotever NX this is...let's b clear..may be ur a part of management or NOT.
A. Have the courage to state ur name if u want to make eloquent but inane speeches like this.
B. Stop being a baniya..yes news is business we are NOT against it, but u nuclear scientist, news is to do with EDITORIAL - wc is all about ETHICS, news sense, attitude, intelligence & other skills besides numbers, figures (digital & literal)!
We have been in this field for nearly 2 decades so honey NONE of us came here seeing the high salary bait...get real news is NOT only about business u CANNNOT sell a shit product...
as for the wotever NX gossip, well scams are all around us, even Harshad Mehta is considered god by gujjus, so may b V has his fan following???
- February 01, 2008 8:13 PM
Welcome to the Real World, This happens every day in every Industry. Nothing New. grow up, Move on. Have heard of worst cases. Wake up and smell the coffee dudes. Just because you guys are journos that doesnt mean that you can get away with Non Performance, Obviously its a much thought over decision by the Management.
Cheer up, Avirook will get a job very soon.
- February 01, 2008 9:03 PM
YOUR Earlier Blog States and I quote
"Vir's first hiring at this new channel was a person who lost two jobs in quick succession, but in his next-to-last job, he was quite the favourite."
So Now Avirook has lost his THIRD Heavily paid Job, Obviously something wrong with that dude. Must be a LOOSER.
- February 01, 2008 9:24 PM
- Sudeep said...
This is really funny. All these guys go and join and then get thrown out. Some of them get thrown out of three jobs in succession. They are known only for hanging around one single successful (?) editor type. They know nothing (rpt) nothing about television. (Let me tell you, it's not rocket science, but at least scooter science!) INX and the Mukherjeas want to launch a TV news channel with these worthies. The Mukherjeas put in the money. Both sides make mistakes: the journalists (i cringe when i use that word here) for joining without knowing ANYTHING of what they are getting into and the Mukherjeas for letting them in. Now, the moneybags says enough, you guys can't do this job and sacks them. That's pretty much the story. Both sides deserved each other. One of them has the money. Guess which side wins?
- February 01, 2008 10:40 PM
- thalassa_mikra said...
For all those who said that the channel is a business and should be run like one, I'm in full agreement with you.
This being the case, tell me which professionally managed business is literally handed over on a platter to the wife of the man who lined up the investments?
Who then proceeds to muck up matters to such an extent that their top hire leaves in disgust?
Let's look at Indrani's credentials so far:
1. Was an independent HR consultant
3. Wife of Peter Mukherjea
If she wasn't Mukherjea's wife, she wouldn't even get a middle management job in the company based on those qualifications, let alone run a huge news channel.
I'm astonished that investment funds like Temasek allowed someone like Indrani to helm affairs, and the only sane explanation is that they thought she was a place-holder till Peter sits out the non-compete clause. Or Peter has friends in the right places in Singapore.
- February 01, 2008 10:41 PM
Time 2 let loose some name. Akash Banerjee and Sanket Upadhyay, the fraudulent loudmouths at NewsX, were the ones who pushed for the removal of Rajesh Sundaram and Jitarth during the meeting wid d anchors. "For those who cudn't crack the nut, Akash banerjee is the well put – snake in the grass". The duo were at their best when d nincompoop mukherjee couple were in dilli and wasted no time when they saw their only chance to move up the ladder. The banerjee fella has saved his back with an offer from Headlines Today in his pocket. Dats wat I wud call craft. Sanket meanwhile was playing his witless sidekick.
While things were still good and happy at INX, Rajesh and avirook saw through Akash's con job and dats what made Akash pull out his cards. One did foresee a termination coming avirook and nag's way after the larger fallout and wud have expected them to move out in grace (so wud have rajesh), but wanting to make it to the good books of Indrani, saw Akash playing a pivotal role in the entire firing process. One would be forced to think, that after the showdown between Palash Kumar and Akash (they both deserve each other), would Mr. Kumar be on his way out, even though he has pledged his loyalties to the mukherjea camp?
All said n done, even if one could validate the termination of the likes of Avirook, Nag, Arunda and Rajesh (which according to me was totally uncalled for), what could have led them to try n sabotage the career of a consistent performer like Kailash Menon, who is at the threshold of this line of business?
- February 01, 2008 11:24 PM
there will be severe comment pruning tomorrow. But before there is lets make one thing clear i know there were no cases of harassment of any nature against any of the people fired. However to save skin i do believe that this will be the strategy used by one side calling the other perverts. Though the last two comments stink of pr talk.
Lets be honest noone will come out of this smelling like roses. However i believe that the v will have his revenge and yesterday's meeting with india's football destroyer was just that. Priyo is a person who lover stepping into the thick of things and i guess the v will ensure that not only will news x never get a licence but that inx could well lose their broadcasting licence. Given that the ownership of inx is a bit shady, anyone will agree things are not over yet. You have to remember one thing. This is the v you are talking about he is one of madam's favourites. This is only going to get uglier.
Not that i mind though. However this is not warfornews there is no comment democracy here. Have a great saturday.
- February 02, 2008 7:07 AM
This post is to all the men and women who are shouting their throats hoarse trying to make believe that Avirook is a pevert and a loser. ALL YOU MEN: You are just jealous that not half as many women swoon over you. AND ALL YOU WOMEN: You're just pissed that someone else drew Avirook's attention more than you did. Don't even remotely try to fool the readers of this blog by implying that you didn't crave for his attention. Because you know you did. And to all those who are casting aspersions on his ability as a journalist, don't forget that he has done much more in terms of quantity and quality work in journalism than you or I will ever do. So, instead of being an asshole, concentrate on your job at hand...and may be (may be...) you will be 20 per cent as good as Avirook is. I worked with Avirook for almost two years and all the crap that is being said about him being a pervert and inefficient is just that -- CRAP! He is the sharpest, most articulate boss I have had. AND I AM A GIRL!!!
Also, all you people who are thrashing him, if you are so smart and brave why don't you reveal your identity instead of posting as anonymous entities. I bet that sooner or later, more than half of you Avirook bashers will go scampering for jobs at the news organisation that he is one of the top editors at. So stop being hypocrites! Instead of wasting time looking at others' failings look at your own and you may be a better person for it! And for the person who said that Avirook's fourth job will be P I M P X....Well, how do you know the dynamics of the PIMP business so well? Seems like you have been an insider :P:P:P
- February 02, 2008 7:26 AM
i think you should moderate comments and remove those which are abusive or vulgar in nature. as you yourself said this is not warfornews or that other blog which went after one editor in FE. this blog was a refreshing change. keep it that way, please.
- February 02, 2008 10:03 AM
- K said...
Comments are now being moderated. Anything I know to be untrue will not be allowed here. Also, judging from some of the comments it seems the PR department of a major media company has nothing better to do than post here :)
- February 02, 2008 10:17 AM
The couple chose the wrong guy to fall out with. knowing the V he will not rest till the channel is destroyted. And this has already started. goodluck INX
- February 02, 2008 1:03 PM
Hi K,
Its good to moderate comments. I see lots of shots from pen but cowardly firing from those who in their comments have admitted that they are journalist and other don't have a single bone of journalism in their body.
Let me point out that whatever comments I saw on your blog, pnly few of them had courage to reveal their name.
So those who call themselves idol of ethical journalism should come out openly.
If you are to fight with an unethical person than at least show your ethics of journalism.
I am not a member of INX media house but a spectator who is watching from outside through your blog.
This firing events at INX is a big casualty for the organisation. Now it will find hard to get a JOURNALIST to work for it. When I say 'Journalist' i mean journalist as read in books.
The other thing is that there will be continous job insecurity among those who are working there because every time they will be part of dirt politics as it is talked in most of the media houses.
I read one comment that talks something about business of news. Let me tell that 'Everything for sale' person that even ethical news can get you lot of business.
Learn branding. Read '33 immutable laws of branding' by Al and Laura Ries, if you are a marketing guy.
Jugaad Paani Dhanda is not good for long term growth.
But it was said to hear from you that you would not entertain anything untrue.
You don't judge anything untrue. Come out with proof to point that which comment is false.
I had been in touch with Rajesh but now seeing the scene there I would never prefer to work under Indrayani, till she says sorry to all the journalist and journalist community.
- February 02, 2008 1:23 PM
This has happened before also in Star News which was managed by the same group of people - Read this blog post.
- February 02, 2008 1:47 PM
Yaar, people get fired all the time, this time it was a journalist group. This is like cribbing about waiting for 20 minutes at the Gurgaon Toll Booth while for years/decades now trucks and other commercial vehicles wait for hours at nakas/chungis et al.
Point is:- who ever even watched this channel? Remember Jain TV and their departure?
- February 02, 2008 1:53 PM
This came in the HOOT today k:
Why are we going to this man?
One of Sen's past employers, the Hindustan Times, sacked an editor last year. We did not see him head for the minister for information and broadcasting. A HOOT editorial
- February 02, 2008 2:23 PM
Dasmunsi asks Finance Ministry to probe source of funding for INX
Developments at INX took a serious turn when Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi on Friday issued a statement that he had been apprised of the serious allegations, including source of channel funding for INX, and that he had referred the matter to the concerned desk of the Finance Ministry to ascertain the facts through their investigation wing.
On Friday, February 1, a delegation of senior electronic media journalists and news editors of NewsX channel called Dasmunsi and explained about the injustice and the shocking treatment being meted out to them by the security staff and other persons, and later on they were sacked.
In a statement, the Information and Broadcasting Minister said, ""Keeping in view the independence and autonomy of the media, neither the Government nor the Ministry ever interferes and shall not intervene in the internal affairs or administration of any media house or channel. But the manner in which the eminent editors have been treated and the rights of media personnel have been reportedly infringed upon is really a matter of great concern for free and fair journalism in the country. Minister has been apprised of the serious allegations, including source of channel funding which Minister is not competent to react, and accordingly, has referred the matter to the concerned desk of the Finance Ministry to ascertain the facts through their investigation wing."
The Minister also appealed to all media channels that whenever any media personnel was engaged on some contract, their contractual terms should be valued and honoured, including the financial clauses. "Otherwise, hire and fire mechanism shall not provide honour and confidence to the engaged media personnel in the country, wherever they may be," Dasmunsi said.
Despite repeated attempts by exchange4media, Peter Mukerjea, Chief Strategy Officer of INX Media, could not be contacted for his comments on the Minister's statement.
Meanwhile, on January 31 Avirook Sen, Executive Editor, INX News, was allegedly sacked without any prior notice and reason. Following the incident, others like Narendra Nag, Executive Producer, and Rajesh Sundaram, Head of Domestic News, also resigned.
When contacted, Sen said, "I am challenging my dismissal legally. But, what is most shocking is how INX treats senior journalists. Yesterday's (January 31) incident is unprecedented in the history of Indian journalism."
In his resignation letter to Vynsley Fernandes, COO of the news channel, a copy of which is available with exchange4media, Nag wrote, "In a meeting with anchors on Thursday, January 31, 2008, NewsX chairperson Indrani Mukerjea told some of my colleagues that I, along with others like Executive Editor, Avirook Sen, Head of Domestic News, Rajesh Sundaram, and Editorial Advisor, Nick Pollard, would be asked to leave NewsX 'very soon'. My email was blocked soon after, around 6.30 pm on Thursday evening."
A similar resignation letter was written by Sundaram.
There are other names as well who are no more associated with the channel like Prakash Patra, Coordinating Editor, who resigned on his own, and Kailash Menon, Producer, who alleged that he was forced to resign.
"In recent times I have seen, with increasing dismay, the manner in which this organisation has been run: the scant regard for journalists is only the tip of the iceberg – the manner in which senior management has chosen to operate leaves me with the firm conviction that professionalism is a word to be bandied about, but disregarded in every activity – that respect and dignity are alien concepts – that NewsX has become an organisation few would want to work for and almost no one would hold as an example of how a world class news channel should be created, or run. You may, of course, choose to disagree," Nag wrote in his resignation letter.
"Such an incident is unparalleled in the history of Indian journalism. Not only do I question Mrs Indrani Mukerjea's credentials to run a channel, I am also perturbed by questions about the source of her funds. She has told the press that she owns over 60 per cent of NewsX. Is this her own money, or is she fronting for somebody? I believe an investigation is called for," said the letter.
- February 02, 2008 2:24 PM
Mukerjee's may be known because of the wealth and sleazy life. They can own 15 channels but they can't be journalists, though they are trying.(assessing journalist like Arunda, Avirook,Rajesh and Nag. Weeks back NEWS X was a head ache for the opponent channels. Vir, Avirook and Rajesh had roped in a great team. Alas!
- February 02, 2008 3:13 PM
Will News X be a 'miscarriage'?
- February 02, 2008 3:24 PM
The news business need not be run as a democracy, but an inclusive management that treats employees as knowledge-workers is the only way to grow a professional broadcast service.
Firing someone is the easiest thing to do. Getting work out of people is what you should be doing Mrs Mukherjee!!
Too late.
- February 02, 2008 5:03 PM
The HOOT article
Why are we going to this man?
One of Sen's past employers, the Hindustan Times, sacked an editor last year. We did not see him head for the minister for information and broadcasting. A HOOT editorial
Posted Saturday, Feb 02 11:41:34, 2008
Last year, when the government was trying to sell a broadcasting bill which would allow the ministry of information and broadcasting to regulate TV news channels, there was an outcry. This year, when the company which owns a news channel has a spat with its editorial head and they part ways, journalists whom he brought in are sacked and who do they march to for justice? The Minister for Information and Broadcasting. Ironical, isn't it?
On the morning of February 2nd the Indian Express reports that there has been an unusual fallout of the spat between News X, the yet to be launched TV new channel from INX Media, and Vir Sanghvi who was heading he channel until a few days ago. The channel apparently dismissed some of the journalist he hired, and the channel's executive editor Avirook Sen who was one of them, led them to the Minister P R Dasmunsi to complain about injustice and shocking treatment.
Mr D lost no time in issuing a pompous statement:
"Keeping in view the independence and autonomy of the Media, neither the Government nor the Ministry ever interferes and shall not intervene in the internal affairs or administration of any media house or channel. But the manner in which the eminent Editors have been treated and the rights of media personnel have been reportedly infringed upon is really a matter of great concern for free and fair journalism in the country. Minister has been apprised of the serious allegations including source of channel funding which Minister is not competent to react, and accordingly, has referred the matter to the concerned desk of the Finance Ministry to ascertain the facts through their investigation wing.
Minister makes an appeal to all media channels that whenever any media personnel is engaged on some contract, their contractual terms should be valued and honoured including the financial clauses. Otherwise, hire and fire mechanism shall not provide honour and confidence to the engaged media personnel in the country, wherever they may be".
Sen also told the Indian Express that he also had plans to take legal action against the channel. May we suggest that that was the course he should have taken in the first place?
Lets look at this incident a little closely. According to the Express Sen had differences with the management which led to their demanding his resignation and depriving him of his car laptop and email id with immediate effect. The company released a statement leveling charges against him. What Sen and others who went with him to the minister carried however was also a complaint about "serious allegations" regarding the channel's source of funding.
Did concerns about the sources of the channel's funding disturb its senior editorial employees enough to lead them to quit before they were sacked?
Editors and senior journalists have been sacked before. One of Sen's past employers, the Hindustan Times, sacked an editor last year. We did not see him head for the minister for information and broadcasting. Not a few media eyebrows will rise at this latest development. Admittedly going to the Press Council yields no immediate remedial action. But in the absence of a regulator with more teeth the recourse for any perceived injustice from a media employer should surely be the courts?
These are not wage board employees, but private contractual people who benefit from the market logic which governs the media these days. For many, a job shift means a doubling of salary. If there are pitfalls that go with it, it does not become a freedom of press issue that should concern the government, whatever Mr Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi may say.
- February 02, 2008 7:37 PM
I absolutely love this tale..straight out a universe that could only be the insane media boom of India late in the first decade of the millenium...Pompous journalists getting a healthy dose of what they deserve, imagining that you are somehow above fallability...and Murkerjeas, well clearly unbeleivably bad managers...appointing socialites to run a channel, and actually thinking they will make money! I predict a long and painful learning curve at News X, (given all the action should we call it Xbox news?), but thank god for blogs like this, where a bored old hack like me can get some good old fashioned entertainment! Keeps the games going, and let the blood flow!!!!
- February 02, 2008 11:02 PM
To add some more to the revealations that are being made here, one cannot miss out the unprecedented security measures taken at NewsX (not reporters, but would-be-criminals work here, I suppose!) since the unjustified sacking of Avirook Sen and some of the other senior editorial staff.
One of these the now infamous episode of hacking into employee email accounts...
When NewsX employees returned to office on Friday morning, they found notices put up everywhere telling them they had new email passwords "due to mail migration to new servers.". Sure! Anyway, at least one of the reasons for the overnight hacking into people's accounts, it has become known, was an email Prakash Patra, ex-news co-ordinator at NewsX, wrote to Peter and Indrani Mukerjea (cced to allusers) as the incident around Avirook Sen was taking place. For those who didn't read the email as it reached their accounts, they didnt find out about it at all since it was deleted from all email accounts the next morning! Only due to some smart alecs that saved the email as soon as they read it on Thursday evening, the rest of us had the opportunity to read the email. Here it is now for all to read. Personally, I think no one has expressed their disgust at the episode that took place at NewsX in as clear words as Partho Sir. Read on.
Dear Peter/Indrani,
I am shocked at the manner in which you people have dealt with Mr
Avirook Sen's removal from the organization. Having witnessed today, the shoddy way in which you have treated a senior journalist, I would like to tell you that no journalist with dignity and self respect can work in such an organization.
My impression now about you and your group is that you hardly know
anything about the news media. Information and entertainment are two separate things. Any joker can handle entertainment. When it comes to information and news – be it print or electronic – you need depth and understanding, but it seems that you believe otherwise.
I heard that that one of you, during the course of your meetings with the staff members said print media people know nothing about the
market and something to the effect that ``they are pieces of shit.''
Having spent 27 years in journalism, I am truly amazed at your arrogance and your obviously superficial understanding of the news media. More so, considering the fact that during the day, Peter told the staff that the News X would be the Indian version of BBC!
I would not like to work with an organization headed by non-serious
people who have neither any clue about dealing with information, nor
recognize the value of professionalism. Kindly treat this as my resignation letter.
Prakash Patra
- February 02, 2008 11:31 PM
So much in being written about this whole DRAMA, seems that we all journos are out of track and not concentrating of why AS was fired, simply 'cause he was V's ........ or there is more to it.... yes, it seems there is much more to this... AS claiming to be high moral journalist and accessing PORNO on regular basis as claimed by NewsX... what a hypocrite he is.... being fired three times earlier due to alleged sexual assault and now again.... surely there seems something wrong with this guy, I am ashamed that I have been part of his team once upon a time.... he cannot change .... SWINDLERS AND CHEATS don't change... what about V... why crying in front of teh minister don't you have guts to say openly why you left... where has your dream gone..obviously you left with BIG MONEY and did something grievously wrong... you are also famous for all mischiefs...
- February 03, 2008 12:15 AM
Avirook was sacked three times? Strange......He was a wrong hire i guess.
- February 03, 2008 1:12 AM
Most men and a lot of women look at porn, that does NOT make them pervs or people more prone to sexually assaulting someone. Get over it. Whatever the people fired from NewsX may or may not have been, they did NOT deserve the treatment metted out to them. I was there when Kailash Menon was being forced out of the office. Some sleazy middle management types who called the guard to escort him out after he cleared out his desk were actually enjoying themselves. A flaming pile of crap indeed and a lot of people who are trying to play both sides to get ahead in this office are stinking pieces of shit.
- February 03, 2008 1:19 PM
Peter-Indrani, its euphoric that you are cleansing the system but
there is plenty of muck raked deep within.Psychographically you are targeting the affluent
English speaking global Indian viewer who is a connossieur of elegance...who knows to segregate
the chaff from the grain. Great...but
You had an executive producer, INPUT who has
worked in Hindi newspapers and was eased out of a Hindi channel and
whose mindset remains etched in rusticity; he would do
yeoman disservice to the channel if he continues the
tomfoolery he indulges in...who speaks/writes/reads
the queen's language like a hobgoblin, the same for an
associate executive producer whose lingua franca has
been Hindi. News X is not aiming to be another
vernacular cousin.
To deliver an 'Economist' on screen where you
combine the sartorial brevity of print with the
elegance of television, you need to visualise for the
discerning select few and wield your pen with that
And Input has to be the gourmet for a channel of
this genre...Assignment as many call it,is filled with
trash in the form of referrals with lucrative raises. SAVE ONE who is from an apt background and whose pen and imagination have the flourish required to execute your vision.
Reams of newsprint wasted on mudslinging will be
buried with the gravediggers. What will remain is the
tenacity to rise above the ordinary.
- February 03, 2008 1:41 PM
Hey dude or dudette (the 'anonymous' one who wrote the second post above mine), you're probably getting a lot of dough for doing what you are doing...and I am 200 per cent sure that you have never worked in his team as you claim you have -- simply because a gunk like you who can't even write one sentence of proper English could never have been in his team!!! You are definately one of the newbie PR ppl (maybe an intern too!) who are being paid to churn out this kinda shit...your company is probably makiing u slog ur ass doing crap like this, because they have to get their money's worth for what they are paying u!!!Al least learn to write proper English dude!
As for the statement about "AS claiming to be high moral journalist and accessing PORNO on regular basis as claimed by NewsX... what a hypocrite he is..." well, I just have one thing to say and that is YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE! Whatever he was doing, don't even try to attempt to say that you have never watched porn on ur office pc...you probably watch it every single minute of the day even as you are writing the crap that you do...the fornication probably gives you inspiration for what you call 'work'...
As for all those who are claiming that Mr Sen has been sacked three time from previous work places...please go get your facts correct or quit journalism. It's because of ppl like you that journalism gets a bad name!
He left Midday by his own accord, even if you want to term it as sacking....and INX NEWS was the first place he was sacked from. So there goes, either which way it cannot be totalled to three....Do you get the simple funda of addition you imbecile creature!!!
- February 03, 2008 2:34 PM
A new News Channel to start soon, which V will be heading?
- February 03, 2008 5:28 PM
why is this a big deal? there are hundreds of people loosing thier job this way? just because its journos, its being blown way out of propostion, i wish there was a blog for people getting sacked this way across industries. thank god i belong to the IT industry. once had dreams to become a journalist though..... seeing the current market scenerio,i thank god am not a part of this. and it seems that AS did look like a cry baby going to the minster and all. getting sacked is part of life, and people have to accept it and move on. there is no graceful sacking and am sure avirook would sack someone the same way. AC take a chill pill. looks like you got some........ fun reading this blog though. must be the limelight right now in the media industry. K did you ever think it would be like this? ha ha bet not... liked your story on nano though. waiting to hear what you will write once its on the road.
- February 03, 2008 10:13 PM
New Channel = New day = More money = more sleeze shows = more blogs = new team. have enough channels who wants another boring trp chasing channel. if journalists can show a prince lying in well for 12 hours, i can see thier integrity, and spirit. journos are out there to make money as well, and apparently they making loads now a days. gone are the days when you could see a journo in a thela with a pen and a pad. they dont make them anymore. this is bound to happen.
- February 03, 2008 10:16 PM
It pains as much as it amuses me to read "Partha Sirs" letter. Futality of his 27 years in print journalism has dawned on him recetly , it seems.
I would like to ask "Partha Sir" and other loud mouthed jounalists , how did they feel when Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkha Dutt got Padma Shri. Oh! that time you did not flash , experience and sacrifice of all other print journalists.
Some of you have reduced yourself to you-scratch-my-back-I-will scratch-yours types. You want big fat salaries , life styles of corporate managers but would like to think about source of your salary only when you are sacked!
Why complain now about "lack of professionalism" ?
I am not sure what happened at this particular channel ,but I am 100% sure that this is not the last time we are seeing these resignation letters being posted on blogs.
No sympathies from me. Neither for sacked journalists nor for inept managemet.
- February 03, 2008 11:11 PM
Peter-Indrani, its euphoric that you are cleansing the system but
there is plenty of muck raked deep within...
Refer to this blog...the only capable person in INPUT is a Bong, who has worked in television and is a hundred times more polished than the others in INPUT and deserves TO BE HIGHER UP ON THE LADDER...THATS FOR SURE...
- February 04, 2008 1:47 PM
I hope Vir Sanghvi gets a sock for his pseudo elite behaviour..
- February 04, 2008 3:54 PM
Anyone who described Akash as a Snake insulted those sinuous beautiful objects. Akash was a two-bit Dr Love RJ at a radio station and thanks to his shameless posterior tasting skills got his way through. He was once described by one of his senior colleagues at Times Now as a "show pony".what the pony will show is for anything to guess...
- February 04, 2008 5:33 PM
what happened is completely justified.The channel was supposed to be launched in DEC 2007. Vir Sanghvi and Avirook Sen were hardly bothered about their work and were out of office all the time. The other's did a very crappy job throughout because of which the launch has been delayed and the trial bulletin at NEWS X sucked big time . they hired too too many people at first without any idea of how they will utilize them . Who's responsible for the editorial being shitty??? Is it Vir Sanghvi & Avirook Sen or the Mukherjis. Obviously if you dont do your work right, you'll get fired!!!! thats what happened. When Avirook was asked to leave the office after being fired he called up Vir, who started dictating Avirook's resignation letter to him and Avirook started typing. wensley tried stopping him by asking him to submit his laptop so that they can get all the Company data out. Avirook refused and hence the guards had to be called . the guards did not touch him. DUDE!!! YOU GOTTA DO SOME WORK IF YOU EXPECT A 6 DIGIT SALARY EVERY MONTH!! wHY ??? BECAUSE YOUR DADDY DOESNT OWN THE COMPANY!! THATS WHY .i dont know what this whole fuss is about. Kailash Menon got roughed up by security because he refused to leave the office, even after his ID card was taken away and he was asked to leave the premises. Instead of leaving the office he stood there arguing about why he cant stay??? DUDE YOU ARE FIRED!!! GET OUT OF THE DAMN OFFICE!!!! why???? BECAUSE YOUR DADDY DOESNT OWN IT !!! THATS WHY !!!!
AND THERE ARE MANY MORE PEOPLE LEFT WHO ARE MERE PARASITES ON THE COMPANY. i HOPE THEY ARE FIRED TOOO !!!!!
- February 04, 2008 8:16 PM
I hear The "V" is now so desperate that apart from his flunkies
running to the minister, he is now running around from
ministry to ministry trying to sabotage newsx. Shame
on him for biting the hand that has been feeding him.
After the fat paycheck that he has taken from newsx to
leave. talk about, being ungrateful!!!! Thank god the
Mukerjeas had seen sense and got rid of this rubbish.
- February 04, 2008 10:55 PM
Well Mr Mukherji agreed that THEIR DADDY DID NOT OWN THE COMPANY but it seems UR DADDY DID NOT TEACH U D DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIGHT N WRONG n tryin 2 justify something as unethical as wat happened at INX the other day. This is a terrible incident in the history of Indian journalism and I hope those behind it r ashamed of their act.
I wish the Mukherjeas realise there is much more to journalism that dolling up 2 be featured on Page 3 (eating free meals cooked by royalty) or distributing iPod Nanos to journalists for the release of their channel 9X.
I do not work with INX or knw anyone there but I knw of many who vouch for VS and Avirook's integrity. I have worked with Avirook myself and I think he rocks. Tchh.. some people are imbecile and do not have the power to identify talent when they see it.
- February 04, 2008 11:06 PM
Pritish, am surprised at the way you have blatantly written the crap!! I have quietly observed how some trainees like you are good-for-nothing. Like a typical fool, you are only passing the buck onto Vir and Avirook. Do you yourself think are intelligent enough that you are raring to go on air as early as tomorrow?
Why NewsX couldn't go air was not because of editorial people but people like Johnjit, Karun and even Vyns- who just kept huge cuts off the transactions. Do you think you get to shoot, ingest and edit smoothly on incite despite six months and firang training? That's for the technical section to look into- not the editorial staff.
The building is still too prematured, despite you all spending quarter year working in a call centre building. Go and ask Johnjit how he has managed to buy a Vitara. Wake up, Pritish.
You yourself say "Kailash Menon got roughed up"- roughing up is not a part of any civilised society- let alone a journalistic organisation. Its a News channel, not 9X where soap operas show roughing-up of people in a fictional world.
Fence sitters like you are the ones who are spoiling the atmosphere of NewsX now- no loyalty, no conscience, no professionalism!!
If you are so desperate to go on air, you always have options. GET OUT OF THE DAMN OFFICE!!!! why???? BECAUSE YOUR DADDY DOESNT OWN IT !!! THATS WHY !!!!
- February 05, 2008 2:50 AM
Are Pritish Mukherji and the Anonymous/2:50am/05February THE SAME PERSON!!!!
Too much shouting, too many ALL CAPS and far too many exclamation marks!!!!!!!
Though I do admit, Arup Ghosh is a bit off.
then again, who gives a Rat's Ass, when hoodlums are busy beating taxi drivers up in Mumbai?
- February 05, 2008 12:56 PM
Dear Alter Ego or fake "Pritish" if I am allowed to say…kindly grow up. To set the record straight I don't feel offended by your post cuz I am sure you are one of those people who's only action in life is discussing office politics and speculating what happens next. Don't feel bad about that cuz if you apply this to your work, you might just become an asset to News X and hey if you have to post something please confirm your name and don't confuse it with your colleagues'
PS: You are not a good journalist cuz a good one does his research at least when it comes to spellings. Next time on please spell my name correctly. (Mukherjee with"ee" not "i")
- February 05, 2008 1:03 PM
- Hemanth said...
Well I completely agree with the real Pritish Mukherjee. And it is not just your name Pritish, the fake Mr. Pritish also got Mr. Peter Mukher-JEA's name wrong. Add to that all the typos and the crappy grammar and punctuation, which leads me to the following conclusions...that it is not a journalist who has written it...or that it is a journalist who doesn't know his A****** from his Mouth...or that it is a clever journalist who wants people to double guess.
And Pritish (my dear friend, not the spineless S**********), I know that you are too true your aspirations as a journalist to make any such mistakes, even in your sleep.
And sorry to use such strong words, but if I could just lay my hands on whoever did this...I would use more than just words...
- February 05, 2008 6:06 PM
Oh what a mess K, Curious to know how many comments are you editing / Not putting on? am sure it must have got more abusive. Please do give us a gist of Comments you have chosen to delete in your next post.
- February 05, 2008 8:06 PM


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September 4, 2008, 12:33 pm
Mo Rocca rocks
Here he is on Katie Couric's webcast, going off on his obsession with the Palin family ("Alaska 90210").
Hey, Mo,
what's the capital of Djibouti?
He has cracked me up since his time on "The Daily Show"–and that was before I learned we attended the same junior high school.


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Europe's Window on the Universe
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The ELT has already gained wide support in the European scientific community. This venture is the only optical astronomy project selected in the roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures. It also features very prominently in the ASTRONET European Infrastructure Roadmap for Astronomy.
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by Jennifer Katz
Residents in Northwest Philadelphia have a choice to make on Tuesday, Nov. 8 between two candidates for retiring Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller's seat in the 8th district council race. While many assume Cindy Bass, who summarily won the Democratic primary in May, will easily win the day, Green Party candidate Brian Rudnick, continues to press his case that change requires, well, change. Bass' greatest attribute, her experience working for Congressman Chaka Fatah and high local profile, is also her largest detraction from a city populace weary of status quo politicians.
Rudnick is the proverbial upstart with no machine politics behind him, no political friends or foes, no favors owed, no interests he is beholden to other than his own ideals and attributes. The question on election day may well be whether or not residents are willing to bet on an outsider's chances of changing city hall or go with an experienced public servant they know. To help with that decision, the Local asked each of the candidates three questions. Here are their answers. For information on polling locations, visit www.committeeofseventy.org.
Cindy Bass
Why are you running?
Whether it was community cleanups as a kid, or working in the neighborhood, being a candy striper, or being a Girl Scout, these were all roles that helped me to do more and give for the community. Since then, I've worked as a community loan officer, housing counselor and an aide to State Senator Allyson Schwartz, and now to Congressman Fattah. I believe that my combination of experience gives me a unique point of view to bring to the table in council to get results for and improve the lives of the residents of the 8th District. In my years of public service, I've seen so many things that need to be fixed, and it was the natural progression for me to take on this job.
What are your top three priorities for city council?
My top three priorities in Council are changing Council's relationship with education in the City, improving economic opportunity through making Philadelphia a more friendly place to live and do business, and improve public safety through the first two points.
What of all your experience do you think is the most relevant to city council?
I think the combination of my experience in government, non-profit, and private-sector banking make me uniquely qualified to tackle the problems of the 8th District and the City of Philadelphia in order to get our communities back on track. The most important piece of my experience that I will use on Council is that I am the mother of a 2-year-old; I am going to Council to ensure a better future and greater opportunity for my daughter, and I don't think there is a greater motivating factor to really getting down to business and demanding results.
Brian Rudnick
Why are you running?
I am running because I am both enthusiastic about serving the citizens of Northwest Philadelphia using my broad experience as a lawyer, as a former small business owner, as an educator, as a public school parent and because I am grateful to the many wonderful citizens in our district who give so much of themselves.
What are your top three priorities for city council?
By reaching out and listening to voters at their doorsteps, at community meetings, at youth sports events and at houses of worship, we have demonstrated that we care and are responsive. My first priority would be to continue the practice of openness and responsiveness that we have modeled in our campaign and demonstrate our commitment by opening up a district office with convenient weekend and weekday evening hours.
My second priority is to work with City Council and the city solicitor's office to more aggressively collect the hundreds of millions of tax delinquent dollars owed by absentee landlords. With these funds we will simultaneously create jobs and fund our schools, afterschool programs, parks, recreations centers and libraries. If we cannot collect the taxes, then we can foreclose on these properties through sheriff sales turning them over to entrepreneurs who will convert these dilapidated structures into homes or businesses and vacant lots into urban farms.
A third priority of mine is to shepherd through City Council the much needed and long overdue zoning reform, which encourages green, sustainable development.
What do you think your chances are at winning?
I believe I have a reasonable chance of winning because my team and I have been campaigning vigorously door-to-door for months now and we have been very well received by voters who are disgusted with the Democratic Party in the 8th District that has disregarded citizen concerns for many years and that had two of its staff members convicted of municipal corruption.


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Can you tell me how to avoid doing the qalqalah on the ta and kaf when they are saakin.
Assalaamu alaykum
Can you help me please. Can you tell me how to avoid doing the qalqalah on the ta and kaf when they are saakin.
Jazak Allahu Khayran for all your help
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh
The kaaf and ta' are the two letters which have the characteristic of shiddah plus hams. The characteristic of shiddah is found in all the qalqalah letters, so this is the reason one may have the tendency to erroneously make a qalqalah on them when they are saakinah.
Since both these letters have hams too, one has to close off the articulation point completely when they are saakinah, then after that release the air (hams). The characteristic of hams (running of air) is what prevents them from having a qalqalah. The only time in reading the Qur'an when we do not apply all the characteristics at the same time is with the kaaf and ta' saakinah; as stated we first apply the shiddah by closing off the articulation point completely, then after that let the air run by allowing some space in the articulation point for the air to run.
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The Toll Gate boys' basketball team knew it was going to be an uphill climb this season with virtually no experience on the roster.
Certainly the Titans were right, as it's been tough from a wins and losses standpoint thus far. Yet, undoubtedly, Toll Gate is getting better.
With seven games left in the regular season, the Titans are 3-8 in Division III-Central but are in the midst of a five-game stretch where they've been close each night out.
They're 2-3 during that span, with a 47-43 win over Johnston on Jan. 31 and, most recently, a dramatic 50-48 win over North Smithfield on Friday.
In the win over the Northmen, Josh Coleman hit the winning shot after a pass from Austin Giard in the final seconds of the second half. Jake Johnson had 12 points in the game, Adam Brice had 10, Burt Lu had seven and Zach Bacon and Kyle McGuire had five apiece.
Also in the past five games, Toll Gate has lost 59-58 to Scituate, 58-53 to Pilgrim and 51-46 to first-place Burrillville. The Titans haven't had a lopsided performance since losing to unbeaten East Greenwich back on Jan. 24.
The Titans will have some winnable games coming up as well. Today, they travel to 3-6 Davies for a 6:15 p.m. contest, and then host 2-8 Mount St. Charles on Thursday at 7 p.m.
Also still on the schedule are games with rivals Warwick Vets and Pilgrim, plus a chance to get revenge for a loss to Juanita Sanchez.
Toll Gate can also still qualify for the playoffs, as the top 10 teams in the 16-team D-III make the postseason. Currently, the Titans are in 11th, just a half-game back of Johnston for the 10th spot. They're only a game and a half out of the eighth spot.
RI ACLU Stephen Brown Notifies Warwick Minimum Housing Board Violated OMA Open Meetings Act At this meeting the chair jude plante announced there would be no electronics allowed, taping,videoing etc. I objected he related town council atty robt sgroi confirmed they could demand this or call the police if I didn't comply. I shut the tablet off. But I stated I would contact Stephen Brown RI ACLU and AG regarding this violation of open meetings act ri 4246-1. He said alright. I did, Mr Brown sent out notice they violated RI OMA . Town atty Ruggerio related shouldn't of and only Mr Sgroi apologized to me.This was done intentionally to block me . I have had numerous problems with the clerk : annamarie marchetti and she set the attys and board in motion. The day before she told me I couldn't speak at the meeting either.
Please enter cindy cook ri in google or youtube and you will see videos of the beginning of the meeting where they violate my rights and then the audio I received from the town they made at the meeting. Plus the conditions of the cottage we rent that has numerous code violations. Worst matter is bathroom toilet floods from connector hose and underneath,floor soaked rotted,no seal causing it to move around the floor and it cannot flush. It goes to a 200 gal cesspool and the pipes are broken causing the toilet paper to get caught on them . We have to place a plastic bag across the toilet seat down go then empty it into a barrel through the window. Mayor scott avedisian ,blg dept al decorte are fully aware of this and haven't had it repaired. Alfred esposito, 83yrs old,a vet in his fla condo [not hosp] is listed as owner but his niece cindy r cook and her husband barry cook really are the owners. Uncle esposito let them put it in his name in 2003 whereas they filed bankruptcy in 2000 etc and couldn't put it in their names. Barry and cindy had a real estate business he was on east providence housing board,councilman , vp citizens bank 17yrs so the know they should never of rented this uninhabitable property especially to an elderly disabled senior and her caregiver. The water bill hasn't been paid since 2009 $2,100 , lien whereas uncle esposito co-sign for niece cindy's business which failed and they haven't paid rent on this leased land for several mos.Moved in oct & gave them $2,250.The links to the RI ACLU Stephen Brown's letters and town atty.http://tinyurl.com/q7furx3


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Drug dealers are getting creative as they apparently try to appeal to a younger market.
Harris County Sheriff's deputies discovered 600 pounds of meth disguised as candy Tuesday morning while investigating a burglary in north Spring.
They arrested two people who were carrying out the lollipops in the shape of Star Wars, Batman and other Hollywood characters.
They say the meth lollipops are worth about $1 million the streets and could pose a danger to children.
"Even if they were not sold directly to a child, what if they were dropped anywhere in a neighborhood, and a child were to pick them up is going to see them and think its regular candy," said Ruben Diaz with HCSO.
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Step is an interactive physical simulator. It allows you to explore the physical world through simulations.
- Classical mechanical simulation in two dimensions
- Particles, springs with damping, gravitational and coulomb forces
- Rigid bodies
- Collision detection (currently only discrete) and handling
- Soft (deformable) bodies simulated as user-editable particles-springs system, sound waves
- Molecular dynamics (currently using Lennard-Jones potential): gas and liquid, condensation and evaporation, calculation of macroscopic quantities and their variances
- Units conversion and expression calculation: you can enter something like "(2 days + 3 hours) * 80 km/h" and it will be accepted as distance value (requires libqalculate)
- Errors calculation and propagation: you can enter values like "1.3 ± 0.2" for any property and errors for all dependent properties will be calculated using statistical formulas
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Original author
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Code contributions
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S.Anderson needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 67 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
Need a nice logo to make the final touch! http://www.newrls.com
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NewRLS, or New Releases, etc.. ?
I dont have any special request's for the logo so you got free hands.
The site will show trailers from new movies, and show musicvideos, and perhaps game trailers, reviews.still under work!
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DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 27 August 2012—OCLC has completed beta testing of the new OCLC WorldShare Interlibrary Loan service and is moving forward with an 18-month phased migration to the new service.
WorldShare Interlibrary Loan is scheduled to replace WorldCat Resource Sharing in 2013 as part of libraries' existing subscriptions. The new service will centralize workflows now managed in multiple systems, and provide new functionality that speeds fulfillment of interlibrary loan requests, saving time for library staff and library users.
Librarians from 20 OCLC member libraries participated in a six-month beta test of WorldShare Interlibrary Loan:
- Ann Arbor (Michigan) District Library
- Antioch College (Ohio)
- Bartholomew County (Indiana) Public Library
- Delaware County (Pennsylvania) Library System
- Fiske Genealogical Library (Washington)
- Gaston College Libraries (North Carolina)
- Harrison College (Indiana)
- Illinois State Library
- Jefferson County (Colorado) Public Library
- Kenton County (Kentucky) Public Library
- La Salle University (Pennsylvania)
- Mercer University, Tarver Library (Georgia)
- Methodist Theological School in Ohio
- Newbury College (Massachusetts)
- Saline County (Arkansas) Public Libraries
- Simpson University (California)
- Spalding University (Kentucky)
- University of Richmond (Virginia)
- Washington County Cooperative Library Services (Oregon)
- Westchester County Library System (New York)
Librarians from these institutions provided input that helped shape the development of WorldShare Interlibrary Loan. Many beta testing participants will continue their roles as advisors to OCLC on development of the new service as members of a new WorldShare Interlibrary Loan Advisory Group.
"We're very grateful to the librarians who participated in the beta testing phase and look forward to continuing to work with the WorldShare Interlibrary Loan Advisory Group," said Katie Birch, Director, OCLC Delivery Services. "Their efforts are helping to guide development of this new service, and will be of great benefit to libraries and library users worldwide."
"As a member of the beta test team for WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, I felt it was important to be a part of the advisory committee to ensure the work we did and the vision we have for this new ILL platform will be carried forward," said Franca Rosen, Head, Interlibrary Loan Services, Jefferson County Public Library, Lakewood, Colorado. "WorldShare Interlibrary Loan will present many new features that will facilitate the processing of requests, resulting in more efficient use of staff time and improved customer service."
Members of the WorldShare Interlibrary Loan Advisory Group include:
- Franca Rosen, Jefferson County Public Library
- Cassie Maringer, Washington County Cooperative Library Services
- Helen Subbio, Delaware County Library System
- Lynn Bierma, Illinois State Library
- Vickie Pitts, Harrison College
- Andrew Shuping, Mercer University
- Denise Wirrig, Bartholomew County Public Library
- Emily Stivers, Spalding University
The release of WorldShare Interlibrary Loan represents the first large migration of OCLC member libraries to the OCLC WorldShare Platform, where they will benefit from expanded integration across a growing number of services. The platform will enable library staff and others to develop applications that will help them connect the service with other services in use within their libraries. They may also use the new service it in conjunction with other components of OCLC WorldShare Management Services.
The phased rollout of the service has begun and will continue through December 2013. Open migration for all WorldCat Resource Sharing users will begin in February 2013 and continue until the end of access to WorldCat Resource Sharing on December 31, 2013.
OCLC has invited a small group of libraries with a low volume of borrowing-only interlibrary loan activity to participate in the initial 90-day managed migration currently in progress. Participation in the next managed migration group, scheduled to begin in October 2012, will be open to interested WorldCat Resource Sharing librarians whose normal interlibrary loan activities can be supported by available functionality in the service before its full release in February.
More information about WorldShare Interlibrary Loan is available on the OCLC website.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world's largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.


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For anyone, interested in such things, buyers at Hong Kong auctions in November established the relative value of a bottle of 2005 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. In fact, at around $18,250 or so, it's worth just over a third of the cost of a Damien Hirst-decorated Fender Stratocaster or a fifty-third of that of a 1930 Leica.
Damien Hirst Fender Stratocaster sold for HK$480,000 ($62,000) on Nov. 25
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...but that could also make things awkward if your bud is low on funds...
Think I'm developing weaze's problem where his friends were drinking all of his beer up- even when he wasn't at home.One friend in particular comes over for "beer and a visit" and grabs the largest glass available -24oz and he usually drinks five of them in short order while I'm quietly drinking a couple 12oz. I nearly snapped Monday when my keg of IPA kicked after a couple of these visits in the space of days. I think he could tell I was a bit miffed about it. In the scheme of things even homebrew is costly and time consuming to make. There has been no offer of "helping out" but then again I haven't asked. I know the guy doesn't have much money right now so feel bad about that. Friends for over 30 years...SO the 24oz's are going away. So will the 20oz nonic glasses. It'll be 12oz flutes and maybe only the 6oz kolsch glasses.The flipside is I get to brew more, and the compliments I get are gratifying. Still doesn't balance out things but maybe I'm just selfish.
Get your Brewer's Notice approved, and it stops.
...Or you could just tell him the truth...tell him nicely, that he just about kicked the keg on his last few visits.