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Cover Picture of the World’s First-Ever Compact Disc Hey GLOVADIs, the best friend that carries your specially selected music to her, the good ol’ CD, has just turned 25! In what now looks an incident of another era, the CD had marked its arrival with Abba’s The Visitors, which was the first album to be released in CD format in 1982. That marked the beginning of the end of vynil era and transformed...
Call centers have become such an integral part of modern Indian cities that most of us youngsters seem to know someone – either directly or indirectly – associated with some call center or the other. They have also become so ‘mainstream’ that there are novels, movies and jokes galore about the call centers. However, most of the stories are either about humour, harassment or sexual escapades during...
Every few months, success of a person of Indian origin in a western country creates a huge frenzy back here in India. Why? No one quite knows why. Unfortunately, a lot of home-grown stars have perished in many a by-lanes of India in abject poverty. As they say, success is relative. The more successful you are, the more relatives you have. Right? What is it about us Indians that makes us ridiculously foolish...
The worst sight that one would want to have just around the monsoon is the sight of more than a dozen school children ‘packed’ within (and about) a rickety auto rickshaw of a Maruti Van. What a criminal abuse of a child’s right to live the most refreshing and pristine season of life! Obviously, this is neither a new phenomenon nor restricted to the city of Ahmedabad. On the contrary, we seem to be copying...
Let us all raise our hands and put them together for the Gujarati film industry. For a family that has probably got used to being written off by all and sundry, completing 75 years of existence is a commendable effort from any benchmark. The author, on behalf of League magazine and all the GLOVADIs spread across the globe, congratulates the industry and wishes it an exponential rise in fortunes. The most repeated...
One of the most desirable features of a great city is a voice of its own. A voice that not only speaks with but also on behalf of its people. With voice, however, we do not necessarily mean talking about the much-documented idiosynchronisies of the place. That can be taken care by novelists and filmmakers. Why, we Amdavadis (or Gujaratis, for that matter), are already quite adequately represented by the ‘kanta...
