Tuesday, June 16, 1998
Go for instant karma at Rs 15 lakh
The notes are going higher and higher when it comes to spending on music videos. When Ken Ghosh, director extraordinaire, first displayed his "Midas touch" in the medium at the onset of the 90s, the usual paraphernalia of models, music rights and shooting, cost the producers Rs 50,000. Today, with Ravi Udayawar directing Bangalore rock act Silk Route beneath water for Dooba Dooba and Sohail Khan shooting Kamal Khan in 35 mm in an optical format at London, for Kya Yahi Pyar Hai, the sky is the limit.
Explore options beyond quality management
Present day quality circles have assumed an unprecedented importance. Conscious companies in quest for quality product, quality service, are employing quality management (QM) seriously. But the question is: Is QM the only key to optimisation of the services/products?
Sand-mining: The bane of Kerala rivers
If estimates are reliable, sand-mining is a Rs 20-crore annual business in Kerala, providing livelihood to nearly 25,000 people, financing development projects in at least a dozen village panchayats and churning up a furious debate on its dangers and sustainability. This way the river beds in Kerala resemble gold mines of sorts with more and more people going under water to scoop out lorry-loads of sand to feed the construction industry.
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