Media Rush 2012

Shirish Medhi has been a social activist for the last couple of decades and has also worked as Logistics Officer in Cadbury India Ltd at Thane plant. He has translated few books dealing with social issues too into Marathi.

Climate change has emerged as an issue of serious consideration worldwide in the last few decades. To know more about climate change, its repercussions and the role of media come to Media Rush 2012(17th February, 2012). Our speakers are social activist Shirish Medhi and Tejal Kanitkar (assistant professor at TISS).

To know more about Ravi Kuchimanchi go to this link :
http://aidindia.org/main/content/view/817/399

Ravi Kuchimanchi Association for India's Development(AID) We aim to provide an alternate paradigm of development in India

With a spate of scams such as the Satyam scam and 2 scam coming to light in the past few years , the area of govt. and corporate accountability has become relevant for the media.To understand accountability and transparency in government and corporate affairs better visit Media Rush 2012 on the 17th of February 2012 at SIES (Nerul) College of Arts, Science and Commerce.

Catch up with our speakers Ravi Kuchimanchi and Piyush Pandey both of whom will speak on 'Government and Corporate Accountability'.

Question of the day - which famous journalist wrote the book 'Mafia Queens of Mumbai' ?

Eager to know more about the contemporary issues in media. Health issues (concerning women and children) prevalent in India and the Role of Government in providing remedial measures will be discussed by Namita Shibad. Dont miss Media Rush 2012 by any chance. :-)

Namita Shibad is presently working as a Communications Consultant with Deepak Nitrite Ltd and Executive Director of Indus Entrepreneurs, a not-for-profit global body. Has Worked on a short- term project for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative program to facilitate candidate recruitment for vaccine trials. Has managed communications for an international e-health conference organized by the Indian Association for E-HealthCare.Was Honorary Communications Director, Prashanti Cancer Care Mission and helped Communicate to varied groups from policy makers to patients and rural masses to make world-class cancer treatment accessible to all. Organized events that result in media involvement. For example, `Survivors celebrate Life’.

she writes features for indian express and is also a freelance journalist; Wrote for different newspapers and magazines. Among them are the Sunday Times of India, Saturday Times, Midday and the New Woman. Was responsible for generating content for the magazines under the Magna banner, Savvy (a woman’s magazine) Society (lifestyle) and Island City (Mumbai City)

MEDIA RUSH 2012 IS NOW CO-SPONSORED BY UNION BANK OF INDIA

Get ready to meet Hussain Zaidi on the 17th of February. He is going to be speaking on crime and corruption

Hussain zaidi is a journalist and an author who wrote his books after keeping tabs and reporting about the crime for more than 16 years, first as a crime reporter with Mid Day, Mumbai Mirror and Indian Express and now as the resident editor of Asian Age/Deccan Chronicle in Mumbai. In his first book, Black Friday, he gave a detailed, well-researched account of the 1993 Bombay blasts that were carried out by the terrorists. The book was later adapted into a controversial film by filmmaker Anurag Kashyap. He also wrote Mafia Queens of Mumbai.

Sometimes in life the more you seek to change something, the more it stays the same...

Question of the day : Whose birthday is celebrated as the National Education Day?

This happened on TAM airlines.

A 50-something year old white woman arrived at her seat and saw that the passenger next to her was a black man.

Visibly furious, she called the air hostess.

"What's the problem, ma?" the hostess asked her

"Can't you see?" the lady said - "I was given a seat next to a black man. I can't seat here next to him. You have to change my seat"

- "Please, calm down, ma" - said the hostess
"Unfortunately, all the seats are occupied, but I'm still going to check if we have any."

The hostess left and returned some minutes later.

"Madam, as I told you, there isn't any empty seat in this class- economy class.
But I spoke to the captain and he confirmed that there isn't any empty seats in the economy class. We only have seats in the first class."

And before the woman said anything, the hostess continued

"Look, it is unusual for our company to allow a passenger from the economy class change to the first class.
However, given the circumstances, the commandant thinks that it would be a scandal to make a passenger travel sat next to an unpleasant person."

And turning to the black man, the hostess said:

"Which means, Sir, if you would be so nice to pack your handbag, we have reserved you a seat in the first class..."

And all the passengers nearby, who were shocked to see the scene started applauding, some standing on their feet."

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