Shamim as they saw him

My post on the demise of an old friend M Shamim evoked the following response from a couple of media colleagues.
Tyagaraj Sharma, The Statesman, Bangalore:I used to interact with Shamim while he was the chief reporter, The Times of India (Delhi), and I, a junior reporter in the Economic Times,Delhi. Both the papers were housed [...]

Bangalore’s NRI-funded police station

Philanthropic NRIs are known to have funded a school, community centre or a dispensary in their native town or village. I chanced by an NRI-funded police station at Frazer Town, Bangalore,  as I was travelling in a three-wheeler from Khammanahalli to M G Rd. the other day. The  name of the family that financed the building is painted [...]

Of Shelfari and the Library Thing

This morning’s mail in my inbox contained an invite to join Shelfari. Initial instinct was to go for the ‘delete’ button. And then I saw it was from my young friend Anand Balaji.  I don’t know him as a compulsive ‘forwarders’ of serial mail. So I chose to open, to find it was about books; about networking one’s book-reading contacts. I reckoned [...]