Archive for July 2013
Narendra Modi Branded Android Smart Phone, Namo
NEW DELHI: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will soon get a smartphone dedicated to him. Smart Namo, an independent body formed by Modi fans, has announced it will soon launch a mobile phone by the same name. The Upcoming Android Phone is the group members' way of showing their dedication and respect to Modi, the Official website for the Device Says.
According to the Website, Namo is an acronym for Narendra Modi as well as Next-generation Android Mobile Odyssey. Modi is popularly referred to as NaMo on social networking websites. Apart from launching the standard version of the device, the group has already starting working on the "Shri Narendra Modi signature edition" handset.
The Smart Namo group includes Gujarati businessmen who have mobile businesses in China. Ammeet Desai, the spokesperson for Smart Namo told The Wall Street Journal that they got the idea for this phone from China itself, where several products like MP3 players and smartphones are branded with their leaders' name.
The group's members will design the phone over the next month and go to Modi for his Approval, the report says. Desai said that the group will establish a production plant to manufacture the handsets in Gujarat.
While it does not give a time line for the launch of the device, the group says it will launch the smartphone "very soon." The report claims that Smart Namo phone will cost Rs 16,000 at launch and have videos as well as apps related to Modi. The group will be selling the phone at cost, thus making no profit from it. Cheaper versions of the device are also in the pipeline, including a feature phone that will cost Rs 1,000.
Coming to the specs of the phone, the Smart Namo website says that the phone will have a 5-inch screen, reinforced with Corning Gorilla Glass 2. It will run on a 1.5GHz quad-core Mediatek chipset that supports dual-sim functionality and have a 13MP camera on the back. The phone will be available in four variants, as per storage and RAM.
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According to the Website, Namo is an acronym for Narendra Modi as well as Next-generation Android Mobile Odyssey. Modi is popularly referred to as NaMo on social networking websites. Apart from launching the standard version of the device, the group has already starting working on the "Shri Narendra Modi signature edition" handset.
The Smart Namo group includes Gujarati businessmen who have mobile businesses in China. Ammeet Desai, the spokesperson for Smart Namo told The Wall Street Journal that they got the idea for this phone from China itself, where several products like MP3 players and smartphones are branded with their leaders' name.
The group's members will design the phone over the next month and go to Modi for his Approval, the report says. Desai said that the group will establish a production plant to manufacture the handsets in Gujarat.
While it does not give a time line for the launch of the device, the group says it will launch the smartphone "very soon." The report claims that Smart Namo phone will cost Rs 16,000 at launch and have videos as well as apps related to Modi. The group will be selling the phone at cost, thus making no profit from it. Cheaper versions of the device are also in the pipeline, including a feature phone that will cost Rs 1,000.
Coming to the specs of the phone, the Smart Namo website says that the phone will have a 5-inch screen, reinforced with Corning Gorilla Glass 2. It will run on a 1.5GHz quad-core Mediatek chipset that supports dual-sim functionality and have a 13MP camera on the back. The phone will be available in four variants, as per storage and RAM.
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Narendra Modi’s TV Channel, Organized to Go LIVE
Ahmedabad, Desh Gujarat, ON 1 October 2012
Test signals of Narendra Modi’s Election-time TV channel
are now presented on the TV set through the Gujarat Telelink Private Limited (GTPL)
cable network.
GTPL Cable TV Network is Spread crosswise the State, and
it has powerful reach in most of the parts of Gujarat.
GTPL has started showing the test signals of Narendra
Modi’s TV channel ‘NaMo Gujarat’ in current affairs slot.
Modi’s team is taking the help of one Private Non-Hindi
TV channel for smooth run of ‘Namo Gujarat.’
Many Politicians in Assorted States of India Own their
own TV Channels. Some political parties too have their own channels.
Modi’s channel is different however, because it is not a
satellite channel and doesn’t fall under the license norms therefore. Modi’s
channel runs completely on cable network. Eventually this channel of course can
be enhanced to satellite channel status to explore the option of reaching out
to DTH viewers (but who would give license to Modi’s channel, till the time UPA
is in power?)
The ‘Namo Gujarat’ channel may start working on 2nd
October. The test signals at present contain repeat run of Modi’s Surendranagar
speech.
During the 2007 Gujarat assembly elections, Modi had
started ‘Vande Gujarat’ IPTV channel which also was functioning during the
cable network. The quality of ‘Vande Gujarat’ was not upto the mark however.
This time the team Narendra Modi is trying its best to
run the channel as per the highest standards in TV industry.
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Why Narendra Modi is Frightening to SUE this Man
Bangalore: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has threatened to initiate legal proceedings against a local Congress leader for serving a notice asking him to apologise and withdraw his remarks calling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a "night watchman" of the Gandhi family.
Replying to the legal notice issued last month by former Pradesh Congress Member K K Benson, Mr Modi, through his advocates K N Subba Reddy and Vivek Reddy, asked him not to initiate any "false, frivolous and adventuristic complaint against him."
"Inspite of this advice, if you (Benson) were to institute any such false and frivolous complaint..., I will not only be constrained to defend the same, but also initiate appropriate legal proceedings against you, both civil and criminal, at your sole risk and cost," Mr Modi said in the reply.
Mr Modi termed as not true the statement that by calling the PM as "night watchman" he has insulted, degraded and defamed him in public and added that he apologise for it as it "is wholly untenable."
Mr Benson had served a legal notice to Mr Modi asking him to apologise and withdraw his remarks calling the Prime Minister a "night watchman" of the Sonia Gandhi family.
Without naming Manmohan Singh, Mr Modi on March 3 had said the Congress appointed a "night watchman" to keep the seat warm for the first family of the Congress.
"They did not realise that the night will be so Long and Dark.
As a buffer, they appointed an Economist to the Post," Mr Modi had said.
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"Inspite of this advice, if you (Benson) were to institute any such false and frivolous complaint..., I will not only be constrained to defend the same, but also initiate appropriate legal proceedings against you, both civil and criminal, at your sole risk and cost," Mr Modi said in the reply.
Mr Modi termed as not true the statement that by calling the PM as "night watchman" he has insulted, degraded and defamed him in public and added that he apologise for it as it "is wholly untenable."
Mr Benson had served a legal notice to Mr Modi asking him to apologise and withdraw his remarks calling the Prime Minister a "night watchman" of the Sonia Gandhi family.
Without naming Manmohan Singh, Mr Modi on March 3 had said the Congress appointed a "night watchman" to keep the seat warm for the first family of the Congress.
"They did not realise that the night will be so Long and Dark.
As a buffer, they appointed an Economist to the Post," Mr Modi had said.
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In Gujarat, NaMo TV Markets The Chief Minister 24X7
Ahmedabad: On a Sunday Afternoon, in Ghatlodia, a Middle Class Hindu neighbourhood, friends and family are glued to their TV screens. The most absorbed among them are women.
What Commands their attention is not a Soap Opera or a Bollywood Bluster, but the man who is seeking a third term as chief minister of Gujarat.
Narendra Modi, who has his own TV channel NAMO, appears to enjoy high ratings here. On screen, dressed in a saffron kurta and red bandhini turban, he lists his achievements before sharing a catalogue of potshots at his rivals in colourful, natural Gujarati.
"He speaks so well and has Made Gujarat Strong" is the recurring refrain.
In the 2007 assembly elections, women took the guide in voting for Mr Modi and today, in constituencies like Ghatlodia, where the BJP has won continuously since 1978, it's women who are NAMO's most faithful viewers.
The new 24-hour channel, funded by the BJP, was launched to coincide with the state elections and is already being beamed into approximately two crore homes across Gujarat.
"Modi's rivals have launched a fallacious campaign to bring him down so we felt the need for a channel that would project the truth - give voice to the BJP workers and highlight the immense work that the chief minister had done for his homeland," reasons BJP Spokesperson Bharat Pandya.
It is not unusual for the BJP to project Mr Modi as a victim of his own success, eliciting calumny by critics jealous of Gujarat's development and a determination to check the ambition and progress of the entrepreneurial Gujarati.
The channel often uses the emotional tagline of "Gaurav Gujarat" coupled with programmes that often have the word 'vikas' or development in them - 'Vaat Vikas Ni' (Development Talk), for instance, has a huge following. In many of its episodes, you see the chief minister out on the streets, at times picking up a broom to clean garbage, or sitting amidst new mothers telling them what to feed their children.
Mr Modi, renowned as an astute and gripping orator, excels as a television Celebrity. He is on the channel 24x7.
Away from the Studios of NAMO, kept out of bounds from those curious like us, in many other sections of the Gujarati media, there seems to be a whisper of change.
After the Riots of 2002, in which 1200 people were killed, the Gujarati media was criticised for Speaking in one voice - the chief minister's.
The extent of this was apparent when publications in their English editions in Mumbai would condemn the state for not containing the riots, while their Gujarati editions would insist the riots were the result of a spontaneous outburst of justified anger.
"After a decade of horrible insulation, finally in 2012, despite paid news and other such stuff, it has become possible for the media to question Modi. I am not sure how much depth there is in this criticism but now that Modi can be criticised, the space to think of alternatives has only just begun."
When a veteran journalist like Prakash Shah makes this statement, any talk of a change in the Gujarati media has be taken dangerously.
In his white kurta-pyjama and thick black-rimmed glasses, Mr Shah is an institution in himself. He's the editor of a historical fortnightly called Nirikshak, or eyewitness, which reflects a rare tradition of Gujarati intellectualism that has managed to stay afloat. Nirikshak's founding members were men like the great Gujarati writer Uma Shankar Joshi, educationist Purshottam Mavalankar and HM Patel,
India's Finance Minister after the Emergency.
"These men were also politicians, came from different political traditions but worked together, surely that's the tradition of vibrant Gujarat we need to remember," points out Mr Shah. Ask him how he keeps the publication alive and he responds with hearty laughter and this: "I feel small publications like Nirikshak or Bhoomika have miniscule circulation but can help lead the debate on option for Gujarat, where development does not have to come at the cost of intellectual growth or social justice. Gandhi, Nehru and Patel worked with some consensus, we need to possibly revisit that to find some answers, not constantly try to pit them against each other."
Nirikshak may be a essential world apart, but Prakash Shah's observation of a subtle shift in the media is an opinion shared by many on the ground. One reason for this is that a city like Ahmedabad is waking up to many new players in the print media. "When there is competition, reporters are forced to hunt for original stories, which often takes them to different sections of society. Inadvertently, that sometimes leads to a greater representation," argues Alamdar Bukhari, joint editor of Gujarat Today.
At the Gujarat Today office on Shah Alam Road in Ahmedabad, the entrance has an open glass cabinet that prominently displays the awards the newspaper has received, primarily for fostering communal harmony.
"We don't eulogise any leader nor do we go after anyone, which is why I think even the present government has recognised our work. And as a voice for the Muslims we are responsible not to use emotional or religious expression but to stick to agendas of development and political empowerment," says editor Yunus Patel.
Among the Election stories of the day, a report on the absence of Muslim candidates in the elections is followed by an editorial by Bukhari on the same theme: "Out of six crore Muslims, the BJP could not find one suitable Muslim candidate and the Congress only eight. I wrote a column asking the BJP some tough questions on how they plan to explain this, given their thrust on Sadhbhavna (communal harmony)."
Just the Fact that these tough Questions can now be Asked and debated, in it becomes a Story in Gujarat...
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Narendra Modi, who has his own TV channel NAMO, appears to enjoy high ratings here. On screen, dressed in a saffron kurta and red bandhini turban, he lists his achievements before sharing a catalogue of potshots at his rivals in colourful, natural Gujarati.
"He speaks so well and has Made Gujarat Strong" is the recurring refrain.
In the 2007 assembly elections, women took the guide in voting for Mr Modi and today, in constituencies like Ghatlodia, where the BJP has won continuously since 1978, it's women who are NAMO's most faithful viewers.
The new 24-hour channel, funded by the BJP, was launched to coincide with the state elections and is already being beamed into approximately two crore homes across Gujarat.
"Modi's rivals have launched a fallacious campaign to bring him down so we felt the need for a channel that would project the truth - give voice to the BJP workers and highlight the immense work that the chief minister had done for his homeland," reasons BJP Spokesperson Bharat Pandya.
It is not unusual for the BJP to project Mr Modi as a victim of his own success, eliciting calumny by critics jealous of Gujarat's development and a determination to check the ambition and progress of the entrepreneurial Gujarati.
The channel often uses the emotional tagline of "Gaurav Gujarat" coupled with programmes that often have the word 'vikas' or development in them - 'Vaat Vikas Ni' (Development Talk), for instance, has a huge following. In many of its episodes, you see the chief minister out on the streets, at times picking up a broom to clean garbage, or sitting amidst new mothers telling them what to feed their children.
Mr Modi, renowned as an astute and gripping orator, excels as a television Celebrity. He is on the channel 24x7.
Away from the Studios of NAMO, kept out of bounds from those curious like us, in many other sections of the Gujarati media, there seems to be a whisper of change.
After the Riots of 2002, in which 1200 people were killed, the Gujarati media was criticised for Speaking in one voice - the chief minister's.
The extent of this was apparent when publications in their English editions in Mumbai would condemn the state for not containing the riots, while their Gujarati editions would insist the riots were the result of a spontaneous outburst of justified anger.
"After a decade of horrible insulation, finally in 2012, despite paid news and other such stuff, it has become possible for the media to question Modi. I am not sure how much depth there is in this criticism but now that Modi can be criticised, the space to think of alternatives has only just begun."
When a veteran journalist like Prakash Shah makes this statement, any talk of a change in the Gujarati media has be taken dangerously.
In his white kurta-pyjama and thick black-rimmed glasses, Mr Shah is an institution in himself. He's the editor of a historical fortnightly called Nirikshak, or eyewitness, which reflects a rare tradition of Gujarati intellectualism that has managed to stay afloat. Nirikshak's founding members were men like the great Gujarati writer Uma Shankar Joshi, educationist Purshottam Mavalankar and HM Patel,
India's Finance Minister after the Emergency.
"These men were also politicians, came from different political traditions but worked together, surely that's the tradition of vibrant Gujarat we need to remember," points out Mr Shah. Ask him how he keeps the publication alive and he responds with hearty laughter and this: "I feel small publications like Nirikshak or Bhoomika have miniscule circulation but can help lead the debate on option for Gujarat, where development does not have to come at the cost of intellectual growth or social justice. Gandhi, Nehru and Patel worked with some consensus, we need to possibly revisit that to find some answers, not constantly try to pit them against each other."
Nirikshak may be a essential world apart, but Prakash Shah's observation of a subtle shift in the media is an opinion shared by many on the ground. One reason for this is that a city like Ahmedabad is waking up to many new players in the print media. "When there is competition, reporters are forced to hunt for original stories, which often takes them to different sections of society. Inadvertently, that sometimes leads to a greater representation," argues Alamdar Bukhari, joint editor of Gujarat Today.
At the Gujarat Today office on Shah Alam Road in Ahmedabad, the entrance has an open glass cabinet that prominently displays the awards the newspaper has received, primarily for fostering communal harmony.
"We don't eulogise any leader nor do we go after anyone, which is why I think even the present government has recognised our work. And as a voice for the Muslims we are responsible not to use emotional or religious expression but to stick to agendas of development and political empowerment," says editor Yunus Patel.
Among the Election stories of the day, a report on the absence of Muslim candidates in the elections is followed by an editorial by Bukhari on the same theme: "Out of six crore Muslims, the BJP could not find one suitable Muslim candidate and the Congress only eight. I wrote a column asking the BJP some tough questions on how they plan to explain this, given their thrust on Sadhbhavna (communal harmony)."
Just the Fact that these tough Questions can now be Asked and debated, in it becomes a Story in Gujarat...
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