Shame: No Himachal tableau at New Dellhi parade this year too
Shimla: What a shame? Tomorrow morning, when India celebrates its 60th Republic Day and states of the Republic of India show their might on Vijay Path in New Delhi, Himachal Pradesh would be absent. It’s for the second consecutive year that Himachal Pradesh would not...
Want free petrol? Himachal’s Raghu Khanna of CashurDrive makes it possible
About two years ago, I said that Himachalis lack entrepreneurship. Yet this young man of 23 years, from Shimla, is out to prove me wrong. An alumnus of St Edward’s School, Shimla and IIT (Guwahati) graduate in engineering, Raghu Khanna was inspired by one-liners on...
क्यूँ मैं हर बार हारा?
समेटा रिश्तों को मुठ्ठी में जो, फिसलते रेत सम बन धारा। गिर कर उठना, उठ कर फिर… क्यूँ गिरता, फिर हारा? क्यूँ मैं हर बार हारा? क्यूँ मैं बार बार हारा?
Can’t Sanjauli be traffic free?
Since the bypass from the Government College, Sanjauli, to Dhalli has been opened, I’m sure Sanjauli can be made another Mall Road and can be another attraction for tourists, shoppers and walkers. However, before this is made, some hitches have to be addressed. Let’s take...
Hindi dailies reign despite overall readership losses in HP; Amar Ujala remains No. 1
In the first part we discussed the over all loss in readership in Himachal Pradesh. Here we take a look at how individual publications (The Top 20 on the readership rank table) have fared. In spite of a loss of one lakh total readership (TR),...
As families get cosy, readership runs into cold in Himachal
Every time Media Research Users Council (MRUC) makes public its Indian Readership Survey (IRS), the media wars hot up across the country, especially in territories where the advertising stakes are high. The war is to catch not only the biggest pie of the advertiser’s budget,...
Fresh ho jao!!!
After a long time, I’ve liked some ad. I wish I could make it as a dialer tone. And what to say of Sushma Reddy. Awesome. Gorgeous!!!
From Bheegi Billi to Mischievous Cat
The past week has been eventful. With bad mood, controversies at the job front and some learnings from relationships. Actually, I won’t call it a bad mood. It was kind of numbness, blankness and emptiness – a feeling I’ve had after a long long time....
Did you see Chingu in Himachal?
Did you like it? Was it worth the money? Would you want to come back after ten years? OK! But what’s a Chingu? Though being a Himachali, and having spent a considerable number of years of my childhood in Himachal, I became familiar with Chingu,...
A letter to Maa
Dear Mummyji, I don’t remember, when I last wrote a letter with my pen and am not sure if I can write too as my handwriting is going from bad to worse, and I’m sure you won’t understand even a single syllable if I put...
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