Birthday boy Ramoji told us the biggest lie of his lifetime! Of the 2000-acre film city (NOBODY KNOWS FOR SURE ITS EXACT AREA…AP govt website says its 1200 acres) Not a single acre has been encroached… Not a single assigned land bought.. not a single acre of tribal land taken over. So, he has neither violated RBI norms in Margadarsi dealings nor did he overstep the law in developing RFC….! Ramoji, we all know the genesis of Vaartha… Girish Sanghi and you started occupying land from opposite ends on Hyd outskirts and when you two met, you got the last piece the two of you vied for.. It was then that Girish Sanghi realized that financial muscle and political clout account for nothing without media presence and started Vaartha.. The witty then commented: Kabjakor Kabjakor raasukunte Paper pudutundi!
Ramoji now has the audacity to tell us not a single acre has been occupied. Can we believe him…. It only tells us he has covered his tracks well.
Ramoji’s statement is like…. Swaranjit Sen, Director General of Police: All encounters are real… We did not kill a single Naxalite in fake encounters!
YSR, CM: Undavalli acted on his own. I did not know of his allegation till I saw it on the TV!..
Ramoji now has the audacity to tell us not a single acre has been occupied. Can we believe him…. It only tells us he has covered his tracks well.
Ramoji’s statement is like…. Swaranjit Sen, Director General of Police: All encounters are real… We did not kill a single Naxalite in fake encounters!
YSR, CM: Undavalli acted on his own. I did not know of his allegation till I saw it on the TV!..
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Jayaprakash Narayan exposed: One of our readers said in his comment that Margadarsi episode has exposed what a phony character Lok Satta’s JP is. Indeed! He is the creation and puppet of Ramoji. SriRamana expressed the same view in Andhra Jyothi yesterday (Thursday). If you missed it, please read the edit page anchor article.
Jayaprakash Narayan exposed: One of our readers said in his comment that Margadarsi episode has exposed what a phony character Lok Satta’s JP is. Indeed! He is the creation and puppet of Ramoji. SriRamana expressed the same view in Andhra Jyothi yesterday (Thursday). If you missed it, please read the edit page anchor article.
Cheating case against ETV: In an earlier post, we mentioned about the Tambola Tamasha at Times, remember? Winner of ETV’s Yahoo programme went to the court charging the channel of shortchanging him…. The gold chain he received is worth one-third of the promised value, he accuses. Nothing new. All marketing gimmicks are con games. Times announces Rs 50 lak worth prizes for Tambola winners. Want some sadistic pleasure? Just hang around Times office… those guys who drive down all the way to their office in anticipation of a good gift get a shock when they see the item in the attractive pack… not even worth the fuel expenses, for some.
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Farewell, my friends.
At 3.00 AM early morning on Friday, November 17, Media Mamu passed away in his sleep. Mamu's wife found the body cold, when she brought him the mandatory morning Nescafe. Even in death, Mamu bore a smile on his lips and appeared to be at peace with the media world with which he fought a losing battle in the last years of his life.
Mamu is survived by his aged wife. He did not leave a will. In the final years, Mamu inspired what came to be known in Hindustan as Mamugiri - a pop synonym for irreverance, transparency, devil-may-care attitude and yes, tilting at windmills. At last count, 770 journalists, journalism aspirants, PR professionals and corp comms had taken to Mamugiri. You loved him, you hated him, but you never ignored Mamu - that was the faith Media Mamu inspired in the world of media. Fighting for values and ethics which were long-forgotten in the commercial rush, Mamu's inimitable style charged up journalists young and old alike, who felt that there could be some hope, somewhere.
However, despite his cheerful demeanour, Mamu remained cynical till his last days. "Whatever I do, things are not gonna change," he said once. However, his was not an attempt to change the world, but to expose the wrongs, even at the cost of hurting friends and colleagues. Perhaps (he never told anyone) he saw some sliver of hope somewhere, but his cynical nature held him back from admitting to it.
News of Mamu's demise was greeted with disdain from the editors and media barons, all of whom secretly referred to MediaMamu to find the goings-on in media, after the edition went to bed. Corrupt journalists, who were repeatedly exposed in MediaMamu, feigned disinterest, since their expressing any feeling would be interpreted as their being afraid of Mamu in the first place.
Condolences to Mamu can be entered in the comments section below. Given the range of extreme emotions that Mamu generated - from diehard loyalty to fierce enmity - it wont be surprising if some of the "condolences" turn out to be un-uploadable abuses. Mamu always used to smile at the abuses hurled his way, since it reinforced his cynicism that the cancer is only getting worse. (It is another matter that after smiling, Mamu always hit back at his tormentors through Mamugiri.) Let us hope Mamu's spirit will read and smile all the comments posted here and all the mails sent to chaloohogayamamoo@gmail.com. Let us hope that the spirit of Mamu will make a comeback one day and show us light amid the darkness of evil.
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