1. Brimful of Asha

Let’s start with the hope. Asha in this song also means hope. Asha Bhosle one of the most versatile singer also reflects the hope of audience who have been listening to her from last 6 decades. “Brimful of Asha” is a 1997 single by the British alternative rock band Cornershop, which originally reached number 60 in the UK Singles Chart in 1997. A remix by Fatboy Slim became a hit in 1998 on the US and UK charts, reaching #1 in the UK. The original hit #16 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The lyrics are a tribute to Asha Bhosle, one of the most famous pop singers/film-score vocalists of India.

2. All Izz Well

Why we Indian, even with all our problems keep smiling and give that infamous Indian head nod  in agreement. Because, Chachu somewhere in our heart we think “All is well” and it’s our survival tactics.

3. Inflation & Mahengayi Daayan

Bloody hell, the inflation is eating us at one end and at the other end our obese food ministry let’s the food rot in the godowns. We sentimental Indians complain about it and what else could be better than the raw, weak but talented voice of Raghuvir Yadav, the villager from Peepli [Live]

4. The Slumdog Paper Planes

The world might see this part of the world as nation full of Slumdogs, but even slumdogs have got hopes and they fly their paper planes high !!!. If you didn’t like how India was portrayed in this movie, don’t get agitated – get involved. Do something, just do it.

5. Indians Pray B’cos They Are Guide Less

Why do we believe in God, God men & Politians ?. Cos we are country of enormous population and the person next to us seems as helpless as we are. We are looking for Neo to help us in this confusing Matrix of more than 1 billion people, we are looking for “the one”

6. Gandhigiri Re-invented

Gandhigiri is not outdated and the corruption is also not new. And hatred is so easy. But the question is ? would the politicians of this country change their corrupt ways, if 1 Billion people stamped “Get Well Soon Mamu” instead of voting on the ballet paper. Sorry there’s is no easy “Jaago Re“.

7. Where Are You ?

Where are the people who are proud of this country ? We asked this question in 1957 movie Pyaasa and this question still keeps coming back to us again and again. Actually it has never left us. Sad but true.

8. The Junglee Indian

Even with all our problems, we survive b’cos in between we go mad to take a break from chaos. Here’s the original junglee the great Shammi Kapoor. Youtube – “Shammi`s image of the young, rebellious, carefree man can be attributed to this famous song Yahoo!? sung by Rafi. With Junglee, Shammi gifted the Hindi film screen dictionary with a new word of exultation: Yahoo! Charged by the word and the accompanying Shankar Jaikishen-composed song, Chahe koi mujhe junglee kahe, Shammi gleefully tumbled down snow-covered hills while shooting this number”.

9. The Great Indian Jugaad (Chalti Ki Naam Gaadi)

The “good enough” technology was invented in India. Anything works in India as long as it can do “something”

10. What’s Your Future, Kid ?

Hope the future of this nation’s kid doesn’t hold boot polish. Child labour & sweat shops is not something we are proud of. This great song from movie Boot Polish reflects the positivity & twinkle in the eye of those underprivileged kids

11. Nothing Changes, However Jaago We Are

The politicians come and go, the voting season changes every 5 years but there’s no change in the fate of a common man.

12. The New Indian INR

This is dedicated to corrupt Indian politicians for whom there is nothing bigger than rupaiyya.

13. Mother India

For most of the Mothers in India, nothing much has changed over the years. Literacy, Liberation, Independence & Basic Human Rights is still not the part of the “Basic Jeevan” (life)

14. Indian Junta a.k.a Murgas

Every five years the politicians make us murgas and tell us we must lay our eggs (vote) for them to hatch and its for our own good. Chutiya banate hai saale.

15. A revolutionary in a Bikini

Zeenat Aman is the revolutionary of the third world, if Hugh Hefner is the revolutionary for freedom of media and speech in the first world. In the following scene Danny represents the rest of pervert and double standard Indians

16. Pocket Mein Rocket Hai

Indian youth, however harassed by his/her parents, teachers, leaders, politicians, bosses and so on, still thinks he holds the key to his future. a.k.a “Pocket Me Rocket”

17. Gabbar Lives In Delhi

In the original movie Sholay, Gabbar dies but in reality Gabbar shifted to Delhi from Ramgarh and asks this question every now and then to his chamchas and plans his vote bank strategy. The question is ‘Kitney voter hai”

18. The Ghajini Nation

We Indians can be easily fooled cause we are the nations of Ghajinis. So next 26/11 when you remember the terrorist attacks, don’t treat it as anniversary celebrations – question the leaders of this nation and ask them what you have done about it. Justice delayed is justice denied, Ok. But Justice not demanded is the justice which is never delivered.

19 Jai Jawaan

When we breathe today on this 15th august lets thank our forces of security personnel, police and soldiers.

20. The Girl Child

This song from “Kabhie Kabhie” is so beautiful and so vividly celebrates the birth of a girl child. Why the nation which looked so progressive in 70’s has moon walked backwards ?

21. Love, Sex & Dhokha

The dumbed down generation and the story of love, sex and dhokha. B****job is your choice, recording it is again your choice but remember voyeurism is national past-time.

22. The Emotional Atyachaar

Dedicated to the Dumbed down and Sensationalist Indian Media. Stop the Emotional Atyaachar

23. Singhs Are Kings

Dedicated to my Sikh friends, a so called minority which protects the so called majority. They don’t just power our military & security forces but they also power all the Indian celebrations. This is to bhangra and bravery for the SINGHs.

24. The Indian Middle Class

The world is oot-patanga (topsy turvy) and we don’t know where’s the haath (hands) and the taanga (legs) but somehow Mr. & Mrs. Khosla (the indian middle class) keeps their dream alive of owning a 2BHK flat or a 10×10 plot. Not because they will live their or as the mating den, because they want to own a shelter where they will die in peace & piece.

25. Prem Chopra All Around Us

With so much of corruption & so many bastards all around us, Preem Chopra the most hated bollywood villain of all time sounds pious & innocent

26. The Last Action Hero

Amitabh Bachchan the last action hero represented the frustration of many generation. Late 90s he lost his way, got in and out of politics, now we don’t know who is truly aligned too and see him selling groceries, medicines and what not. There’s no one who now fights for Indian middle class, they all have become skin-whitening-cream-sellers.

27. CrowdSourcing Was Invented In India

We invented zero and also the crowdsourcing was invented in India. How else is it possible to survive the daily grind, we don’t help each other and pass the buck

28. The Global Indian

The IT force, nobel laureates, mega business honchos and the world entertainers. We are the Global Indians. Long before the world heard Jai Ho, the genius was already inspirational and hypnotizing

29. The Indian Idol, The Next Khan

The world might see a rift between Hindus & Muslims in India but the the heart of this country of 1B+ people with hindu majority, is ruled by all muslim khans. The next khan or the Indian Idol may be (not so surprisingly) be from a small town, again a muslim, again a khan but with no tag of religion, he would represent the true essence of India – Unity with Diversity.

30. Happy Feets (& Heart & Faces)

There will be many difficulties in our lives but keep singing the happy tunes. And Amol Palekar we all want too see normal human beings like you back in our media, in our businesses and in our politics.

Keep coming for more and leave your comments to tell me how you felt about this slightly optimistic and heavily pessimistic effort of mine.

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16/330 Khajoor Road  – The first Indian album to be given away completely free as mp3 downloads from our website.  Seven songs, one given away free every month starting 25th July 2010.  Thus, you can download “Chand” from 25th July till 24th August, and starting 25th August, download the next song for a month and so on.  The last song on the album will be available 25th January till 25th February 2011.  After that, we WILL release the whole album as a physical CD, indeed, a double CD with the second containing versions of songs and some practice session recordings, since a lot of us still treasure the physical possession of a CD.

There’s history behind the name Khajoor Road

Our new album is named after the fantastic space we have been rehearsing at since May 1997. 16/330 Khajoor Road is the address of this picturesque 100-year old bungalow in Delhi’s crowded Karol Bagh area. We were offered this house by our friends, Gurpreet Sidhu and Orijit Sen, who were living there at that time, and were quite cool with having a band share their living space!

Kb, as we call it informally, became a home away from home, where our albums Kandisa, Jhini, Black Friday and, of course, 16/330 Khajoor Road were conceived and polished. Hundreds of our friends have visited us here, had chai and spirits and Rim Zim with us, played cricket with us, sung with us, partied and contributed to the spirit of this amazing house. The least we can do is dedicate an album to an almost spiritual entity that has nurtured us for so long.

The decision to name our new album was taken almost three years ago, and the decision to give away the songs for free evolved over the last year and a half. Asheem was an essential part of these decisions, and it’s tragic that he cannot be here to share in it’s fruition.

The songs on this album are classic Indian Ocean. You will recognize our sound in each number. However, almost all the songs were originally made for some film project or the other! In India, our experience has been that only about one in eight or so film projects actually get completed. But that’s great for us, since we get to keep and play all these songs and put them into an album without negotiating with ten thousand lawyers!

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"We’ve known for years that the Web allows for unprecedented voyeurism, exhibitionism, and inadvertent indiscretion, but we are only beginning to understand the costs of an age in which so much of what we say, and of what others say about us, goes into our permanent — and public — digital files. The fact that the Internet never seems to forget is, at an almost existential level, threatening to our ability to control our identities; to preserve the option of reinventing ourselves and starting anew. In a recent book, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, the cyberscholar Viktor Mayer-Schönberger cites the case of Stacy Snyder — who was denied a teaching certificate on the basis of a single photo on MySpace — as a reminder of the importance of ‘societal forgetting.’ By erasing external memories, he says in the book, ‘our society accepts that human beings evolve over time, that we have the capacity to learn from past experiences and adjust our behavior.’ In traditional societies, where missteps are observed but not necessarily recorded, the limits of human memory ensure that people’s sins are eventually forgotten. By contrast, Mayer-Schönberger notes, a society in which everything is recorded ‘will forever tether us to all our past actions, making it impossible, in practice, to escape them.’ He concludes that ‘without some form of forgetting, forgiving becomes a difficult undertaking.‘"

There’s also a great video of Prof Jeffrey Rosen on Youtube ‘Is Privacy Dead ?’

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1. Email is technology : Do you know if your sender email server is blacklisted or has potential to be black listed. Is your email text, html ? Is it easy to read across multiple email systems ? Have you checked the resolution of your email ? Do you know that a single unwanted character has a potential to mess up with the mail delivery or readability ? In case you have never asked these questions to yourself, I recommend reading how to code html mails by MailChimp

2. Email is permission based : And Indian Email-marketers don’t get it. They think it’s their birthright to spam their users. A randomly connected email database will never work for you or cannot be deemed as loyal user base. Email marketing should not be a hit and run campaign and accidental conversions. Email should be a communication to the user on a ongoing basis and the consumer should be looking forward to receiving your mail and open it with due respect. That’s the success. Some more basic fundamentals here

3. Email marketing is not cheating : And again Indian Email marketers don’t get it. Common guys we have been in the British rule for so many years and you mess up with our English ? Exclusive, Lifetime, Discount, Limited Period – all have have some meaning and as Indian consumers we definitely know it. Indians still read their daily newspapers or live in the environment where your outlet is stone throw away. It doesn’t even take them 5 minutes to know that this email from you is completely bogus.

4. It’s about microcopy stupid: And the microcopy begins right from the from & sender line of your email. I am ashamed to say that most of the companies including banks and reputed institutions fail miserably in this. They send the absolute garbage. Infact Nigerian scam mails are much more well written than some mails from top Indian brands and institutions. And I am not kidding. Here are some tips to write microcopy. Though you won’t find much on microcopy and email but they go hand in hand.

• Don’t send an email without your brand name. The subject must be so precise that even without opening the email the user should get your communication and intention of clicking the mail should be yet another click and not the click on the [x] mark . Upon opening the mail, seduce the user in 1 microsecond so that he/she is motivated to read further and be lead towards an action you want him/her to commit.

5. Jpeg is for porn : And not for marketing. Why do Indian marketers still send one single jpeg file as an email. Don’t they know that most (all) web based email systems and desktop based email system require one more click to show an image. I don’t even see a proper alt-ext behind images or text + images so that a user can at least make some sense out of it. Here are some tips on it – using images in email marketing & use email marketing ? ignore the big picture.

6. Oye ? Where’s the call to action yaar ? Never hire a bollywood script writer for your email marketing messages. They put all their writing talent in one single mail hoping for a lifetime achievement award. Audience in movie theatres have paid 300 bucks to suffer for 3 hours. But sorry your email receivers don’t have such patience. Communicate fast, efficiently and clearly what exactly you want the user to do and for what ? A simple example Click here Vs Click here for 20% discount. Know more on emailmarketingtips.com.

7. Crash landing: Ok even with these problems the user managed to do us a favour and land on our landing page. And… he has a great fall. Any email marketing campaign should be in three steps and the landing page is step 2. Without any wishful thinking just imagine a scenario where at each step your success rate is under 10%. 10% at email clicks and 10% of 10% at landing page – what would happen if your user is lost on this page. Maintain the train of value proposition and help the user make his next move. Visit CMSWire, davechaffey.com and b2bemailmarketing.com for more tips.

8. Collect & bond, it’s your ‘relationship’ network : The most important & logical part of Email marketing is to collect the email addresses. And if email IDs are precious, then they should be handled with care and collected with utmost precision. Do not miss an opportunity to get the users subscribed to your list whenever you get an opportunity through point of sale, point of service and so on. Show and prove him how it will offer a great ‘customer experience’ and not just spam.

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2. Email marketing reports & insights : email-marketing-reports.com, emarketer.com & mailermailer.com

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• Shufflr is build on Adobe Air and has a very sleek user interface. That’s what make the UI really shuffle, quick, fast, easy and advance in many ways compared to a total web based experience.
• One can find numerous top video provider here at one place and save a lots of time visiting each one separately. E.g. Youtube, BlipTV, Dailmotion, YahooVideo and many more.
• The benefit of the above is that you get the buzz not just from one single source, but what’s actually is really popular all over the web in true sense.
• You can’t just  discover videos but also discover people with similar interests watching similar videos. You can browse through their profiles, tags, bookmarks and watch the videos that they have watched.
• The recommendation engine keeps working for you, the more activities that you do, more friends that you add. You will see that you will keep discovering more goodies. It has good mix of popularity plus serendipitous content.
• Shufflr.tv is also connected to your social network. You can share the videos outside the shufflr ecosystem with sites like Facebook and Twitter with just one click of a button.
• Just recently they also experimented by having a Fooball channel for Fifa. And the beauty of that is, that you won’t miss a single action of it as it aggregates videos across the sites.
• The most important and great thing about shufflr is that they are still evolving and adding features on a continuous basis. The upgrades are so smooth that it takes just 5 minutes to upgrade you app and experience the new shufflr.tv. My kudos to the shufflr team for being able to manage this smooth experience and entice me to shuffle more each time I land on Shufflr

You can download and learn more about shufflr here http://shufflr.tv and here’s the short intro to Shufflr

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There are so many fantastic people and project going on in social tech that I feel incredibly breathless catching up with all of them. I am super interested in catching all, but it’s not possible as an individual. Please suggest me ideas on how should I gather all the intelligence and signal here. (totally social media snake oil free)

• I wanted to try Drupal Memetracker but that won’t be possible due to stability issue.
• A structure like ALDaily.com but I haven’t found a CMS for it.
• I also thought of metafilter format but again no CMS availability
• A WIKI format which picks the best of the social tech but I need the Wiki which feel little cooler also with a good typography & CSS skinning.
• A Popurls like site using SimplePie NewsBlocks, which is my last resort.
• I may settle for NewsBlocks + Wiki format. This requires just installation and no great hacking the code. I have got many suggestions of hacking Drupal but that’s really not my cup of tea.

Please do suggest ideas and ways to put a new structure. Thanks in advance

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