Indian Express reports 10-year old Kishan SS from Bangalore is all set to direct his first feature film starring Jackie Shroff. The movie, C/O Footpath, is about street kids. Impressive.

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We all bleat for ice cream. The Mahatma would be proud.

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Enter, issue 3, has launched. From my experience, the site is a bit buggy, but it is a goldmine of information for photojournalists. Afterall, it's a publication of the World Press Photo Education Department.

The actor Joaquin Phoenix apparently lost his brakes and collided with another car.

Here is what I find terribly annoying about entertainment journalism – it is woefully incomplete. We know the actor lost his brakes. We know his car flipped over. We know he hit someone else. We know he walked away uninjured.

Um, I reread the Associated Press article that was provided to MSNBC.com and was left wondering about the the folks in the car Mr. Phoenix hit? Did they walk away as well? After all, Mr. Phoenix' car “overturned.” And for a car to flip over, it had to have been going pretty darn fast or hit something pretty hard. Trust me, I have seen a SUV get hit and flip over. It ain't pretty. Did he hit a woman, a man, a car-load full of kids? Whom did he hit and are they ok?

Did MSNBC.com edit that crucial portion of the story off so that it makes it into the “celebrity” section of the site? Or, did AP goof things up? In any event, this story relegates itself to the realm of gossip because of inadequate interesting facts and it fails to inform the public at large what really occurred on the road going eastbound above Sunset Strip. Anyone else find this kind of journalism wholly irresponsible?

The Editors Weblog reports that The Hindu will have an ombudsman so that there is greater transparency and “social responsibility” towards its readers. Bravo, Mr. N. Ram for establishing such a position.

Also, for those who haven't had a chance to look at that paper recently, I was pleasantly surprised to see the design and layout of the paper has vastly improved. Gone are the long columns of text broken up by awkwardly phrased headlines. The Hindu now publishes in color, with some very good photography as well. The width of the paper, I noticed, had shrunk to what is called “web size,” making it easy to handle, especially if you had a nice hot cuppa decoction, Madras-style, coffee in the other hand. Mmmmm … brings back fond memories.

Congratulations India. It's your 56th Republic Day today!

via Shankar A. Iyer

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The New York Times' Somini Sengupta writes about little-known Indian painter Tyeb Mehta

MailBigFile.com: Yet another online service that helps you transmit large files; images, audio and perhaps even compressed video as long as they are all under 2gb

Daily video and blog posts from the Sundance film festival at Flavorpill

Call for photo entries at Photography Now: 100 Portfolios, deadline is March 10, 2006

Now for some silly comedy