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Blogs That I Follow.

  • http://navallanga.blogspot.com
  • News Item That touched Me ....There was one article in this month's Reader's Digest about Kamalbhai Parmar who is running a fabricating unit and who runsa school,rather a tution school for the poor students in Ahmedabad.It takes a large heart to start something like this.I do wish I can do something like that too.Atleast be able to teach in such effort .
  • Books That I am reading now.....I am reading "Under Orders" by Dick Francis.Just started.Seems to be about issues in racing sport.
  • News Items That Touched Me Today----The bicyc;e scores over train and car in a survey conducted for two wheeler travel ina congested metro like New York as the fastest transport..
  • Movies That I Liked.....I watched a Malayalam Movie called'Vastu Hara' in Kairali T.V.yesterday.The story touches about losers who migrate abandoning their personal properties during divison of countries and realtes to the creation of East Pakistan called East Bengal dividing Bengalis .Also running underneath the main issue is the personal loss of property which gets rejected by the Mother in the story who is offered the same back by her Husband's relatives.
  • Books That Are My Favorites----Somerset Maughm's short stories,Arthur Conan Doyle's 'sherlock Holm mysteries',All of Shakespearian dramas,The Bronte sister's writings,Poems by Mathew Arnold and Tagore's 'gitanjali'.This list is not exahaustive.

Thursday, October 01, 2009

My Thoughts On Advertisements.




Iam nowadays seeing so many advertisements that are quite bad in presentation.For example there is an advertisement which shows a class and a student, a young boy asking why Rosie Miss is absent.Another informs that her dog had died.This boy goes to Rosie Miss's house and the teacher sits on the front stone steps sad and looking mentally sick with her dog's tie rope empty.The boy acts like a dog consoling the teacher rolling in the mud,fetching the ball etc.The advertisement is for Surf Excel the soap powder.But the teacher who should be a model to the students in courage looks to me like a mental case.

So also in another advertisement for pregnancy prevention( Unwanted),the Mother of the girl advises her get it terminated.I think this advertisement also is bad as it condones and shows a girl a method to indulge in and rectify.I did read in some papers that the Govt. had objected to this advt.But so far nothing is done and it is being shown.

I realize that India is vast and so many such bad media does happen without anyone realizing.But shouldn't we do something.So I am blogging here.

Jayamala.

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