Archive | November, 2008
This is Nollywood
Nollywood, Nigeria’s booming film industry, is the world’s third largest producer of feature films. Unlike Hollywood and Bollywood, however, Nollywood movies are made on shoe-string budgets of time and money. An average production takes just 10 days and costs approximately $15,000. Yet in just 13 years, Nollywood has grown from nothing into a $250 million dollar-a-year [...]
Continue reading...The Big Fat Indian Wedding
11. November 2008
It might be a ’seasonal’ industry, thriving only during the auspicious months of the year but with an estimated worth of Rs 1,25,000 crore, the Indian wedding industry is getting bigger and fatter. With the industry growing at an average rate of 25 per cent per annum, the lavishness doled out by Indians on weddings is [...]
Continue reading...Interesting News – Hollywood meets Bollywood in Oscar-hyped `Slumdog’
8. November 2008
Hollywood and Bollywood rarely meet. But in the new film “Slumdog Millionaire,” the two international epicenters of filmmaking find an unusually fruitful cinematic union. The connection comes by way of British director Danny Boyle, who shot the film in Mumbai, India, with a cast of mostly Bollywood and local nonprofessional actors. Filming with handheld digital cameras and [...]
Continue reading...‘Universal Township’ to ponders crowd control to counter tourism menace
6. November 2008
Standing amid his shop’s hodgepodge of saffron Hindu goddess T-shirts and jasmine incense sticks, Krishna Romali said he had moved to the outskirts of this “universal township” in southern India after hearing that business was even better here than at the infamous party beaches of Goa. But after several months of selling toe rings and crystal [...]
Continue reading...Bhutan’s balancing act: Happiness vs. development
5. November 2008
Bhutan’s dilemma: how to reconcile conservation, economic development and happiness in a modern world. Bhutan puts the happiness of its people before development. Landlocked in the eastern Himalayas, the tiny country of Bhutan seems almost untouched by globalisation. Its icy peaks, deep green gorges, sparkling rivers and quaint buildings with multi-tiered sloping roofs strengthen the feeling of a [...]
Continue reading...Water of Life
3. November 2008
Rainwater harvesting means catching and holding rain where it falls and using it. It can be stored in tanks or used to recharge groundwater. From this seemingly simple idea, India is learning some great lessons. If you search for the term on Google, the Internet throws up around 64,000 links. Out of these as many as [...]
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22. November 2008
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