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August 18, 2007 | 04:11 PM

Virtual reality, social networking, new media. The future

None of us really know do we ? And the great thing is that not knowing is s exciting. In discovering and exploring lies the adventure of life. The following is the text of my address at the future of New Media, Social Networking and virtual reality in Melbourne conference. The 3 day conference and mentoring session was organized by the Xmedia Lab. Where I am part of a team of international mentors, who mentor new enterprises in this space all over the world. For me its a great learning process. For in the mentoring I am also catching up with with new technology and developments. And learning from people with different and more advanced skill sets than mine. Read on for the text of my presentation. I am in conversation with Brendon Harkin, one of the forces behind XMedia lab :

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August 11, 2007 | 04:04 AM

The New Media

Still at the New Media/Virtual worlds conference in Melbourne. I heard some amazing brains of 'life on the other side' - second life. I spoke about second life, new media etc too, but my talk was more of an exploration of the psychology of living in another - second life. Will write about that, but here is a sound byte interview that I did here, that I want to share with everyone. Not too deep, As I said - sound bytes.

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January 14, 2007 | 05:09 PM

The Goa Film Festival

In light of this continuing dialogue over child trafficking in Goa...

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December 07, 2006 | 01:37 PM

Nanotechnolgy 2

This is a comment from Sasikanth, a Nanotechnologist at Cornell Unversity. It would be interesting to initiate a discussion on how this new technology will affect our daily iives in all spheres. Sasikant says "Sekhar, I am a nanotechnologist at Cornell University working on technologies. Being a nanotechnology researcher I think I have to comment on this post ......

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December 06, 2006 | 12:43 PM

Dhoom 2

To all those Bollywood fans out there, I finally managed to get tickets for Dhoom 2 in London. It's the only film in London other than Casino Royal that is consistently 'house full'. The film is a lot of fun in a charmingly silly way. But I think it is time to change the name 'Bollywood' to 'Bodywood'. Shekhar

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November 26, 2006 | 04:22 PM

Intellectual Property and Piracy

I have been both attending and speaking on conferences on the future of Media and Technology. I use the two terms together as more and more Technlogy and Entertainment/Media are converging to become the same bussiness. One thing that consistantly comes up is the question of Intellectual property and Piracy. I think the lawyers/Corporations have got it completely wrong...

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April 23, 2006 | 01:20 AM

An interview

I did this interview for the Times of India in Hyderabad. Not sure if they carried it, so just posted it here. I do hope they don't mind. BUt it has been with them for over a week ...

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October 28, 2005 | 09:58 AM

Dancing to Mr India in Prague !

This is a guest entry from Sangeeta, who describes the incredible reaction to mainstream Bollywood films in Prague.

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October 27, 2005 | 02:37 PM

Asian Domination of Entertainment

In future sequels to Spider Man, Sony will have to ensure that when Spiderman takes his mask off, he is either Indian or Chinese. Or they will loose out on 75% of their market.

This article appeared in Bussiness India last year.

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