“Noted photojournalist Mosharraf Hossain Lal Bhai died of old age complications at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) here yesterday at the age of 75.”

I receive a rather cryptic link about a photojournalist based in Dhaka who had died. His name – Mosharraf Hossain Lal Bhai.

What perplexed me is this line in the short article: “Prime Minister Khaleda Zia expressed her deep shock at the death of Lal Bhai.”

Shocked over the death of a 75-year old man who was ailing? Surely this is PR-speak.

The Online News Association has announced finalists for the 2004 Online Journalism Awards.

Career development is one of those ephemeral things that unfortunately gets shoved off onto the back burner. Big mistake, especially if you are an artist. It ought to be a life-long pursuit. And, I am no fan of the “starving” artist syndrome. There really shouldn't be any excuses for that to happen to any of us.

If you are in Philadelphia, or 100 miles from the City of Brotherly Love, for example, check out: The Center For Emerging Visual Artists.

Seek out similar organizations within your own neighborhood or state that supports visual artists. And if you know of any, please email me so that I can add them to this web site.

“A complex adult novel has been used as the pretext for a low-octane and glassy-eyed Bollywood romp, at a shorter length than usual and without balancing the romcom jollity with any of the genre's usual heartfelt and ingenuous moments of seriousness.”

And so says Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian in his scathing review of Gurinder Chadha's Bride and Prejudice.