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Yesterday I shot with the host of a TV food show for an episode of her show. The episode is going to centre around a couple of food bloggers. The idea of the show apparently came up when the host realised that she was increasingly using blog posts to decide on where to eat rather than mass media reviews. This evening in The News Hour on Times Now Arnab Goswami suddenly looked at the camera and exhorted the audience to go viral and protest against police performing odd jobs for politicians or something like that. 'Go to Facebook and twitter and register your protest' said Goswami. Incidentally while Times Now has a twitter handle, Goswami doesn't. A bit later I was watching Barkha Dutt chat with Salman Rushdie and Deepa Mehta and their conversation suddenly turned to twitter. Rushdie pointed out that for him twitter is the fastest way of finding out what's happening around him. Barkha herself is on twitter and unlike other big TV journalists on Twitter, such ...

A colleague of mine who is getting married this month was pretty happy after they identified a flat in Andheri W that they planned to rent after they got back. Then I heard that the rent deal fell through. The housing society insists that they need a wedding certificate. Their parents met the society and yet the society didn't agree. And they can't even take the house when they get married as the certificate needs 2,3 weeks. That they are planning the wedding in some coastal spot in Kerala with loads of folks coming in doesn't count. The landlady is helpless and loses a tenant. There are many mafias in Mumbai and the housing societies sit pretty much at the top