At The Edge

VIP underwearbanyaan video link Song Aa aa E eei Masterji Ki Aa Gayi Chitthi from Kitaab(1977) by Gulzar. Table thumping music by R. D. Burman. For the case of missing center of gravity: aatankari tadpole aur taR'ou kay samrat computer : a scene from Om Dar Badar(1988) by Kamal Swaroop video link  

Mahatma Gandhi on way to his last prayer meeting On Trial looking relaxed: (Front row, left to right) Nathuram Godse , Narayan Apte and Vishnu Karkare; (back row, extreme left Digambar Badge - the government approver) The photographs can be found in The Men who Killed Gandhi by Manohar Malgonkar. Found these in a review of the book published by India Today dated Feb11, 2008.  -0- "perhaps it was not an accident that Godse began his political career as a participant in a civil disobedience movement started by Gandhi and ended his political life with a speech from the witness stand which, in spite of being an attack on Gandhi, none the less revealed a grudging respect for what Gandhi had done for the country" -  Ashis Nandy Long ago, I had posted an extract from an essay by Ashis Nandy titled The Politics of the Assassination of Gandhi that appears in his book At the Edge of Psychology: Essays in Politics And Culture . The extract traced the early life of Gandhi...

Found these classic ads in a piece titled Humour in Advertising , Gentleman magazine, June 2000 Papa's Cafe The manager has personally passed all the water served here. Improve Your English. We have over twenty part-time and full-time courses to help you read write and speech (sorry, speak) correct English. The British Council Agency: Ogilvy & Mather Singapore New York  Lotto Hey, you never know Agency: DDB Needham It's our contribution to road safety, may we point out that drinkers of our beer will never drink and drive, because after three nobody ever remembers where they parked the car. Ad created by Neil French for XO Beer (cerveza) Classic Ad for Alka Seltzer Claudine went to the Ladies to power her nose. In Paris, you drop the 'd' Ad for Pernod Fils The pregnant pause.Make sure you're not the father  The Economist Agency: Abbott Mead Vickers We have chosen not to disturb your Sunday morning with a ...

video link Mero gaam katha parey Gujarati folk based original music by Vanraj Bhatia for Shyam Benegal's Manthan (1976). In 1977, this film, produced by 500,000 farmers of Gujarat, won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi and National Film Award for Best Screenplay for Vijay Tendulkar . Preeti Sagar, the voice of this song, won Filmfare award for best female singer that year. A more mainstream version of the song was later used as the soundtrack for the television commercial for Amul. [ video ]. -0- You can also check out Vanraj Bhatia's Soundtrack for Tamas here -0- Manthan is now available for free viewing thanks to Amul.tv . They have also uploaded some episodes of Siddharth Kak produced popular show Surabhi .  Amul never fails to surprise: Amul Girl hit ads, spanning 1976 - till date, were already availabe online , and now they have also uploaded some old ads of Amul . -0- Also, you can watch video of two utterly butterly old telev...

" Kamal Swaroop...you mean pandit ji ?" The reply I got from my elder cousin when I asked him if he had seen the film Om Dar Badar by Kamal Swaroop . A comment on my previous post about Om Dar Badar led me to an interesting website about the documentary being made by Kamal Swaroop on Dadasaheb Phalke, father of the Indian film industry. "I was born in Kashmir in 1952.My father was an educationist. I was brought up in Ajmer Pushker." Kamal Swaroop's story board on Phalke starts with these lines that trace his own origin. So my cousin did remember. -0- Here's an excellent video (thanks to cdsjaik ) on how the film on Dadasaheb Phalke is coming together. This one traces Dadasaheb Phalke's days in Nasik , his birth place . The episode narrated here, interposed with some archival footage, involves Phalke's daughter Mandakini, who also acted in his films: video link

Late at night: a television channel about History has slot for eyesight restoring magnetic goggles, a News channel has slot for magical pendents pitched by men in fake holy beard, a channel Religion has slot for definitive hair restorer oil showcased by some small time actress. Why waste the space? -0- ''General Motors and AT&T are major distributors of pornography,''  - Racy Magazine Ads Expose Inconsistency In Publishers' Stance, The New York Times, March 12, 2001  ( Flynt? ) "craigslist donates 100% of net revenue from "erotic services" ads to charity, while newspapers and yellow pages make a profitable business out of them."  - FAQ for craigslist.org These surrogate advertisements are common on certain days on certain specific pages of some newspapers and magazines. - Trafficking in Women and Children in India By P. M. Nair, Sankar Sen, Institute of Social Sciences read some views at DNA , December 3, 2007 -0- That ima...

 Some more ads from year 1972 The world's latest can making technology now comes to India You can enjoy all its benifits Ad announcing collaboration between American Can Company and Indian Can maker Poysha.   BRALCO Metal Industries Since 1919                                             Mahale Piston Goetze Piston Rings Suko Piston Pins  Eveready Nulite Torch  Union Carbide According to Wiki page about Eveready Industries : By the time of the Bhopal Disaster in 1984, the company was ranked twenty-first in size among companies operating in India. It had revenues of Rs 2 billion (then equivalent to US$170 million).  -0- Previous post on: Machines, Industries and other Oddities