Indicast : Episode #7
Rashmi Bansal and Vikram Nanivadekar (Nani) shared the mic with me for this episode. I wanted to be a bit adventurous and record this episode at CCD (my cousin who is in SYJC says calling it Cafe Coffe Day is being “unhip”) but it was just too noisy so we recorded it at JAM’s office.
Since we had someone from print and publishing biz, we talked about some of the changes that are taking place in that world.
- Want to write for JAM Mag?
- Rashmi was bothered about was that the publishing houses like Times just want reporters to turn in stories everyday and not give enough time which results in poor journalism.
- Times of India sucks says Nani
- India is the 3rd largest publishing country and yet articles are being copied word to word by established magazines.
- End of days, why doesn’t nani become a journalist.
- Can an Indian afford Harry Potter for Rs 800
- Opposition to open the publishing industry for foreign investors
A big Hi-5 to Rashmi and Nani for their participation. The banner pic is dedicated to the local bandwala’s for giving me the opening and concluding dhol music. I got 3 themes from them that they use for lezim and Ganpati visarjan. Just drop in a comment if you want some crazy nasik dhol and I shall upload it.
Yours Internetally,
Aditya
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Great Show! Hope you enjoyed your time in India.
Comment by Raghav Suri — November 15, 2005 @ 8:47 pm
IndiCast: Episode #7
Aditya at IndiCast talks with Rashmi Bansal and Vikram Nanivadekar on the latest trends and happenings in the Indian publishing industry [podcast format].
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Trackback by DesiPundit — November 16, 2005 @ 4:19 am
An insightful podcast!
Comment by BD — November 16, 2005 @ 9:43 am
An interesting discussion and you really covered some very good points. There is a need to stress on quality of written english in schools if we want to produce world class writers.
Comment by Joy. D — November 16, 2005 @ 2:43 pm
Raghav : Do you have a life beyond Indicast..just kidding!!! You have commented 3 times within the 1st hour of me posting the episode!!! Appreciate the support
BD/Joy D: Writing/Reading is something that I cant boast about but I know people who could just live on books. Keep listening
Comment by Aditya — November 16, 2005 @ 6:45 pm
:) Yes I Do!
It was an interesting show, I try to keep up with all The sapna podcasts, it covered interesting key issues.
Comment by Raghav Suri — November 16, 2005 @ 9:55 pm
Just added your feed to iTunes. Looking forward to it. Any other Indian podcasts available? Planning on starting my own soon after exams. Ciao, Amrita from Mumbai
Comment by Amrita — November 17, 2005 @ 8:01 pm
Like Aditya, I am not an avid reader, but I love to see books in my book shelf and breeze through some of those when my good mood gets better of me. But, answering Nani’s question of why don’t kids/people enjoy writing, well, at the risk of being too didactic, the reason is - “writing requires discipline” … i tried putting pen to paper to write a review on the book, ‘Maximum City’ by Suketu Mehta (which rocks BTW), it took me an hour to come up with a decent paragraph.
Kids are not trained to read in schools. We cram, cram and you know what else we do, we cram. Writing is an art (i just found out) and we don’t have an artist to imibe the art within kids. Part of the problem is that the education system does not “permit” the kids to “indulge” in such activities. Ask a kid from the 4th grade about his day at school his after school hours. While parents are glued to the k series, ‘Homework first, beta’ is what the they parrot to their kids.
I was lucky to be in a good school and and my mom being a teacher knew exactly what not to do with kids when they come home from their 8 hour lecture bashing. I failed in many a unit test, but always got that requisite percentage marks to scrape through the semester. What was important was the time spent away from school…
In India, the definition of a bestseller book is ‘5000 copies sold!!!’. Authors like Gurcharan Das, of ‘India Unbound’ (My favourite non fiction book) and Chetan Bhagat of ‘Five Point Someone’ fame, have lifted the bar. That’s because there is an audience! Gurcharan Das, a few years ago had trouble finding a publisher, but today, there are racks at Crossword which are dedicated to Indian authors.
Piracy is one issue that has been dealt with to some extent in Mumbai. The entire line of book sellers at Fort is barren now! Yeah, sad for some….
Hey, Nani, pardon me for any spelling mistakes in this comment man! And Adi, while the dhol gives the world a taste of India, the intro music is a little too long!
Comment by Abhishek — November 18, 2005 @ 12:33 pm
And he says he cant write… abhishek has rambled on for 5 paragraphs. But must say that tera Inglis improve hua hain!!!
Will shorten the intro music as well.
Comment by Aditya — November 18, 2005 @ 1:58 pm
hi,
this is an interestng podcast. the last episode was nice. though some of the views discussed about fdi was a bit myopic, but on the whole, nice platform for discussion.
keep the good show going..
prasad
Comment by dr prasad — November 19, 2005 @ 6:14 pm
As far as reading classical/ancient texts go, one should not forget the FREE option of Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/). The project has taken copyright free texts, including lots of shakespearean, greek, roman etc literature. FREE is good.
They have indexed/catalogged More than 15,000 books are online!
Comment by Mistry — November 19, 2005 @ 11:04 pm
Mistry: Thanks, that’s quite a stunning website! All under one roof (though, I haven’t heard about 90 per cent of the authors mentioned on the site —- a good start for an amatuer reader!).Keep listening. Who’s your favourite author from the site?
For all the guys and girls in India, Crossword, in its quest to close the year with record volumes, has extended upto 70 per cent discount on books. The offer lasts till the 4th of December!!!
Comment by Abhishek — November 20, 2005 @ 5:55 am
Hi! Really liked your show.. I was wondering if you have something like chapters in your poscast so that I can click on the topics I want to get to first..maybe its not possible technically, I dont know…
Anyway, loved it so far.. though my BF has a suggestion.. thoda gaali waali deke colourful banao..:D
Comment by sqrlnt — November 24, 2005 @ 8:24 pm
SqrInt : I know what you mean when you say making episodes available in chapters. But sometimes what happens is that during an episode we keep making reference what we had said in the first minute of the podcast so in that case the listener might get confused. So to keep referential integrity we have to provide the episode as a whole.
And I would love to be a 100% myself.. I have a bombay language so I use gaalis as conjunctions and preposition. But we have a very diverse audience so not everyone might appreciate it. But this is the third time that we are getting this comment about swearing !! Stay tuned we just might put out an uncensored version.
Comment by Aditya — November 24, 2005 @ 9:17 pm