Internet in India
As the entire world knows Big B blogs on BigAdda. Big B's Aug 13, 2008 blog posting reads, Wrote a whole blog.. Server went down.. Lost it all.. And it is still not working.. Frustrated and annoyed at this.. It was an important one.. Very important Very strange. I was looking at the source of his posting and I saw, <meta name="generator" … [Read more] about Is Amitabh Bachchan unhappy with WordPress platform?
After the Left has left the government (a big thank you!) a lot of 'right' things seem to be happening! India moves forward on the N-deal and finally, government announces the much awaited 3G policy. Few highlights, 3G and WiMAX spectrum auction will fetch around $5-7 billion (Rs 30,000-40,000 crore) for the exchequer. The auctioning of 5 3G … [Read more] about 3 Cheers! 3G is almost here!
I haven't read Chandamama for ages, but I did read them regularly as a kid. They had (and have) some quality stuff. Chandamama is known for the Vikram and Betaal series and other mythological characters. Comics are usually popular with adults, too! Amar Chitra Katha regularly sells a collection of 100+ comics for about Rs 4,000 … [Read more] about Comics publisher Chandamama release language portals
If you want to advertise in English print media, the most sought-after brand is the Times of India (BCCL). The youth in this country likes it (Page 3). Kids these days don't bother to read the main section :-( but then going to a circus may be more fun than reading about what is happening in the parliament. Come August 2008, it will cost you a … [Read more] about Will Print ads in India become unaffordable?
I had read the report from Ernst & Young "The Dhoni Effect: Rise of Small Town India" a while ago. I came across a very nice article on Wharton, An Increasingly Affluent Middle India Is Harder to Ignore, which talks more about what you could infer from that article. Basically it is a myth that people in smaller towns don't have the buying … [Read more] about The Growing Importance of Tier-II cities in India