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The myth factory

The Oscars are the end of history. One night in February, questions about how a year’s pack of films will be thought of decades later are answered; the narratives attached to individual movies — the plucky indie outsider, the high-minded drama — are set in stone. Who remembers, now, that in 197 ....Read more

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HypocracyBy: Rajani | Tuesday , 24 Feb '09 18:48:35 PM Reply | Forward Regarding the winning of slumdog Millionaire i think that these Oscars have always been playing double standards with the films. I have some few questions in my mind. Has this film been selected and given the award because it has been directed by the foreigner.Many of the Indian films directed by the Indian directors like Laggan in Hindi and one of the films in Marathi have been nominated for the Oscar award but they did not get the award. Is it because the directors and the producers were not foreign origins. No doubt the movie is very good and I do appreciate and especially congratulate A.R.Rehman for getting an Oscar award and he really deserves it and hats off to him and may he continue to do such job. But still these many questions have to be answered.

stupidest of the editorials By: dr.Srinivasan | Tuesday , 24 Feb '09 18:44:34 PM Reply | Forward Stupid comments anyway. The whole idea is to show to the rest of the world the plight of people who live in abject poverty it is to make us wake up and the rest of the world also to wake up!!!When will our journalists wake up when will our people our intellectuals wake up when will our politicians wake up to this ugly shameful reality and d something about it?It the slums did not exist in india would these people have gone gaga over this? It is high time journalists come down to reality and make the government realize that these are subhuman conditions in which no human beings should live especially children

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