East India Company is now an Indian Company!

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News is that the East Indian Company which ruled India over 200 yrs is bought by an Indian named Sanjiv Mehta for $1.5 Crores.

The Company which had ruled India over 200 yrs, was nationalised by British Government after the first war of independence in 1857. The company lost its glory and remained nominal after it was dissolved on 1st January 1874.

• The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multi 
• The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833 

Will IIFA embrace South Cinema?

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International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards – 2010 will be held in Srilanka. Though the name (IIFA) has India in it, South Indian Cinema or to that matter any other regional cinema was not given enough scope in IIFA. Only Hindi Cinema dominated in it. Many raised the point through the media but IIFA organisers never cared for it. It remained as just another Hindi cinema awards function like Filmfare, Screen awards etc.

But this time news were pouring in that the IIFA biggies are after South Film Celebrities as Sri Lanka has got huge Tamil film market than the Hindi film market. Let us hope  the mileage South Indian Cinema gets this time will be continued in future IIFA awards.

Shashi Tharoor wicket is down, what about Reddy Brothers?

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Now that the centre has secured the resignation of Shashi Tharoor owing to BJP demand, will it do the same with Reddy Brothers of Karnataka who are facing the charge of  ‘Rape of Bellary’. If BJP was demanding the resignation of Shashi Tharoor and making a hue and cry in parliament over the issue, shouldn’t Congress also do the same in Karnataka Assembly, if not in Parliament?