Meet BARC, A New TV Ratings System To Create A New Set Of Winners And Losers

It took nearly a decade of talking, three years of operational groundwork and even a rare Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) recommendation that government actual...

Tech Trek: Themes of Technological Influence in Cinema

Like the ever-present air, we live and breathe technology. Despite our excessive dependence on the array of media at our disposal, we take our options for granted. Neverthe...

MILESTONES, MAHA EPISODES AND TWISTS

Code Red?s 100 episode milestone is worth taking note of. Pitched against the 10 pm to 11 pm saas-bahu sagas, the channel stuck its ground and kept it going. While any othe...

SAAS BAHU AND TRADITION

??India lives in her villages,? is a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. ?This isn't the exact quote, though. Gandhiji actually wrote, ?India is not Calcutta and Bombay. In...

What Do 13 of the Strongest Women on TV Have in Common? They’re All Tatiana Maslany

Orphan Black’s star creates clones with endless individuality

The short years ago, Tatiana Maslany was an up-and-coming actress with improv comedy chops, so...

NOW ART FITS TO COLUMNS OF EXCEL SHEETS!

In the last week I happened to spend an evening with relatives who were visiting Mumbai from Jammu; my hometown and the place I took birth in. It’s a no-brainer that ...

TRADITION - BOON OR BANE

Tradition is a word that almost all Indians have grown up hearing. "India is a land of tradition", "our traditions date back to the earliest forms of civilisation", are jus...

TV industry heading for a rating-dark period

The television broadcast industry is heading for a rating-dark period. While the door will shut for TAM Media Research, BARC?s entry will possibly happen in April this year...

OF MISOGYNY, MENTAL HEALTH, STORYTELLING AND ALL INDIA BAKHCHOD!

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius - and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ~ Marilyn Monroe

It has now been a long time that I ...