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This year, Abby's for people with `passion'
The 31st Abby Awards, organised by the Ad Club of Bombay, will be presented at a mega-event on March 20, 1998. Set amidst hype and hoopla the show will be based on the theme of `Passion'.
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The fire within
Ray Meeker's resume is an exciting one. Here is a man with a university background in architecture, a passion for pottery, tempered with social concern and courage to dabble in alternative technology. What he creates are familiar forms: modest houses roofed by vaults and domes -- Middle Eastern shelters transplanted on South India's secular soil. The story of how he creates these, though, makes all the difference...
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Beggars turn choosers, extract charity
Maya Mamtani, a manager in a multinational bank, stopped her car at the Barakhambha road red light while returning home one evening. A young girl rapped on her windshield and asked for money. Mamtani refused. The girl spat at the windshield and moved over to the next car. Whose responsibility is it to check these beggars and vendors at red lights? Why are red lights suddenly developing as a cottage industry where you can buy anything from car tyres to cigarette lighters.
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Heavy taxes sound death knell for Oriya film industry
Exorbitant entertainment tax continues to be the bane of film producers in the State. With entertainment tax being 130% and an almost closed business with Doordarshan, film producers face a tough struggle for existence. Repeated requests to bring down entertainment tax has had no impact on the government.
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