Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category
Monday, August 18th, 2008
... Wow!!! One million since August 2005. Not a big deal for the giants out there who get much more than this in a day. But for me this is huge!!! You all stuck with me!
In spite of my ups and downs, going AWOL for long periods of time and even writing posts that irked some of you (Desun Guns Zindabad!)... you, dear readers kept following these posts... for which I thank you from the bottom of my heart...
Thank You... Thank You... Thank You...
And the journey on this train... continues... :)
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
The question I get is "Why?"... from most who know me on a personal level. They have reasons to ask the question. And yep, it's a very valid question. The PFCOne Film Festival saw me stressed to levels I haven't experienced for a long time... the last bright stressful moment I remember was trying to save a million dollar contract that would be lost and the blame would fall on my the then 26 year old shoulders. In short - my boss would have thrown me off the 30th floor office in the beautiful concrete Genzai district.
So why? The questioners after the festival see me as going cranky. I have these days developed a wonderfully short temperament that ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Just got a hold of an ecopy of the Times of India, Mumbai edition for Saturday, Sept 29/2007...
THE MOVIE MONGERS’ CLUB
In this Saturday series, we cover unusual groups. This week, Ketan Tanna meets bloggers who are mad about movies
On September 18, when Anurag Kashyap came across a YouTube video of his film Paanch, which has yet to be released in the market, the first thing he did was write a quick blog on passionforcinema.com.
The words tumbled forth. “I woke up this morning and ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
The Gang moves to Amazon.com
Would appreciate if those who have read the book or it's online version, could take some time and review it there. And those who still haven't bought it... please go ahead and order your copy at Amazon before it runs out of print :)
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Thanks for your patience guys. The new design is alive and kicking. The big change is the footer where a lot of my lists have been transferred to from the sidebar. If you see anything weird in the placements or things going off on your webpage, please do let me know.
Regards,
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
Desi Train will be up and down for the next day or two, as I'm changing the theme to accomodate more features. Hopefully, I'll be able to do this without a glitch.
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
The MBA Gang is coming next week out in print to order and eBook for Download editions.
I would first like to thank the first members of Desitrain's Inner Circle - those who encouraged me to go ahead and write fiction - however shitty it may have been. Neha Kamath, Shuchita Nayak, Pundalik Dhuri, Chandni Malik, Neha, Vi, Manoj Mhapankar, beeonthebrow, Ranga (WB), Cliff Letterman and many others who kicked my bottom to get on with it. The result is more than 6 fiction stories since The MBA Gang.
Thanks to Trasie Stittsworth, from Hollywood, for being a constant support and source of encouragement. None of this would have been possible without her constant motivational speeches.
Thanks to Trasie too, for quickly ...
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
Wow... Half a Million hits on Desitrain!!!
Thank you all, dear readers for making desitrain such a big success!
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
This is so fucking addictive. Since morning, I’ve done nothing. Nothing. NOTHING. Besides, clicking on PFC and checking the latest posts and comments. Damn it! VP calls “oz, how about having the meeting today?†It’s the monthly meeting I have with the VP. But the posts on PFC are too fucking addictive. Vice President can go to hell. “VP, I have a major emergency at one of our locations, some servers need urgent replacement… lets do this tomorrowâ€
Major Emergency? The only fucking emergency on my desk is my hand subconsciously moving the mouse over the refresh button every 5 seconds.
Have to do something and get away from some FUCKING PRETTY EXCITING DISCUSSIONS… so much so that I missed writing something ...
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Monday, October 16th, 2006
In case you haven't noticed it yet, Anurag Kashyap, yes "the" Anurag Kashyap (Satya, Kaun, Shool, Paanch, Black Friday) is writing his diary on Passion For Cinema. The diary will record his day to day experiences, thoughts, views, highs and lows during the making of his latest project No Smoking... I'm being jammed by emails - my Gmail is going fucking crazy with new emails popping up!!!
Just to let you know - this would be the first Movie Diary that an Indian director will be recording online for his fans...
Anurag, Thank You so much...
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
If things fall in place we'll be talking to "Pralay" the Indian band live on our Sunday Masala segment on Desi Talk
Thanks to t! for arranging this.
Interesting to note that Anurag Kashyap's Paanch was loosely based on this band.
Check out...
Pralay's homepage
Pralay's MySpace page
The show's on Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 10AM California/ 1030PM India. t! will be doing most of the interview, while I'll be taking in calls or input some questions during the show.
Call in after the show starts and talk to Pralay. The number to call in is 347-677-0688 (USA)
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006
For those who haven't yet checked out the cool site - Passion for Cinema (address: passionforcinema.com), do drop in when you get the chance. There's a guess the movie contest going on right now.
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Monday, September 4th, 2006
Somewhere between Sunday night and early Monday morning, Desi Train crossed the 200,000 mark. I know it is a small figure compared to others who achieve that mark in a single day, yet for a virtually unknown blogger it is an important milestone.
I started counting readers since August 2005. In May 2006 we reached the magical figure of 100,000. In 8 months!!!
And now another 100,000 has been added in just half the time!!! Amazing!!!
Thank you dear readers ^:)^ Thank you for being so gracious. Thank you for visiting this train, each day, every day. Thank you for letting me know that you enjoy the ride on this train. Thank you for your love, pranks, cracks, jacks, insults, threats and everything ...
Posted in Announcements, Lens Eye View, Life Flava | 2,688 views | 19 Comments »
Friday, August 4th, 2006
Desi Contractors in the USA. They run firms that go to India and bring qualified professionals to the US on an H1 B visa. The professional puts everything on line and places his/her trust in the hands of these companies.
And then start the horror stories. In the last six months I have come across countless number of professionals who have received nothing but pain, mental torture, agony and blackmailed by these Contracting companies. They have not been paid a single dime, there have been very few interviews that were arranged for a project and most of the time the professionals end up being interviewed by “other†contracting companies, the dozens that exist between them and the actual client.
It’s time ...
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Sunday, July 30th, 2006
I'll be running another test round of Talk Radio tonight at 9pm (Pacific) (Monday 930am India).
I'll be reading the comic review of - Chocolate. If you are on, feel free to call with your questions, comments and opinions on any thing under the sun. A te-a-te with Mo the Pickup guru, who has graciously accepted to try out our test (again!).
The link for the show :
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/hostpage.aspx?host_id=93
Call in number : (USA) 347-677-0688
Yahoo IM : DesiTrainTalk
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