The headlines about the growth of the Indian economy are eye catching, even extraordinary by modern standards. It’s all too easy to be seduced by the romance and promise of India on your first visit. For 2009/10 gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to top 6.9 percent, India is the third largest...
R.D. Laing was an unconventional psychologist. One of the thing’s he talked about was ‘love as violence’. That is what we do to our children. Because we want what’s best for them, we go beyond simply loving them. We equip them to survive in the world. To us it looks like love. Looked at from another...
Last year I said something pretty mean about Jade Goody and I'm sorry. I wrote she had PR cancer and then it turned out to be real. My bad, but even as she lies wasting away it appears the PR bit was right. I just read Shilpa Shetty is making a final dash to her bed side. This is all kind of very...
Twitter has been highly prevalent in the citizen journalism reports about what has been going on in the terror chaos in Mumbai with reports saying at one time the Indian government wanted people to stop Twittering. Indian blogger Gauravonomics is saying that Twitter has been one of the best sources for...
I have to admit when I first saw the front page of the Sun today with the "Jade Has Cancer" headline, I immediately thought "that's bound to be PR cancer, not real cancer". This thought suggests one of two really quite disturbing things. Firstly, this means I am so deeply cynical...
This hasn't got anything to viral marketing, but why are India coming 40th in the Olympics (with 1 gold), when they have a population of over 1 billion? Mumbai 2016 anyone?
The Indian Tourism Office is writing to Jade they want her to come visit. In an open letter to Jade that has run in a number of the nationals including the Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Metro, and Evening Standard. The India Tourism Office is welcoming Jade and her "friends"...
