Have known Dale Bhagwagar for more than a year now. I think he deserves much more than this post…but this is all that I can offer.
Dale Bhagwagar- The PR
His client list says it all. You had him turn Shekhar Suman’s image while I was a kid. And make a Controversy Queen out of Shilpa Shetty even when he had zero communication with her, as she faced racism in the big brother house.He even managed to turn a nobody Sheryln Chopra into a ‘news fodder’ that media started loving.
He knows to turn things around..flip things…use words in a way that will make you believe IN WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE IN. An image builder..he can even destroy it with his one stroke of shrewdness, if u get to the wrong side of his.
If there is one person on the earth who knows magic…its Dale Bhagwagar.
Dale Bhagwagar – The Man himself
Live life king size….do you??? Dale does. He lives in an island called MADH, which is far and not well connected to the city. Beach is at walkable distance. I doubt he goes for a walk though. Coz his society itself is heaven. Words wouldn’t exactly describe it. It’s best if you see the pics in his and his good friend’s blog.
Dale Bhagwagar- The Friend
A friend in need is a friend indeed. I cannot think of one occasion when he has not been there for me. He shares his knowledge, his positivity, his joys..his sorrows.
I am not alone here. Almost all friends of his will agree to me when I say this.
Dale Bhagwagar – The enemy
You feel suicidal. You don’t feel like living anymore. Is life treating you terribly? Here’s the solution…trouble dale. Just kidding. But he can get real fierce if he thinks you crossed the line or betrayed his trust. So beware there.
Dale Bhagwagar- Remember him after he dies
With as many google results showing up on his name…it would be hard to forget him. He loves Troy. Believes it in. He wants to be remembered after he is long gone. And he strives hard for it.
Dale here is my little contribution towards you being remembered for your unconventional working styles, for you adaptability levels, for your constant craving to learn new things, for your desire to be the KING OF ENTERTAINMENT PR WORLD.
Loads of love,
Ankita
PS- If you yet haven’t added him onfacebook..do it now.
Hello! As you may be aware, in February this year TARSHI, along with 20 other organizations initiated a campaign and an open letter pressing for support for sexuality education in India. It is 3 months since we sent this letter. In the interim, we have heard that a Parliamentary Committee headed by Mr. Venkaiah Naidu has disfavoured the introduction of sexuality education in schools.
We are resending the link to the open letter which can be found on the home page of www.tarshi.net and at http://tarshi.net/programs/public_edu/open_letter_sexuality.asp and urging to you to circulate this far and wide and encourage people to sign on to the letter. We truly hope we can make this initiative count!
Please feel free to share this email among your networks, friends, colleagues, press contacts etc because every signature counts!
Warmly,
Prabha
Prabha Nagaraja
Programme Manager
TARSHI (Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues)
11 Mathura Road, 1st Floor
Jangpura - B,
New Delhi - 110014, India
Phone: +91-11-24379070 /71
Website: www.tarshi.net
One of the inspirational stories which Barrie Su shares with me on facebook. I’ll call it the BARRIE SU PHILOSOPHER SERIES :P. No kidding….they are indeed inspiring,filled with opitmism.
Here you go.
A small story that might bring in a smile on our face and make us feel proud that we have made a difference to someone’s life.
Once upon a time there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing.He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.One day he was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think of someone who would dance to the day. So he began to walk faster to catch up. As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man and the young man wasn’t dancing, but instead he was reaching down to the shore, picking up something and very gently throwing it into the ocean.
As he got closer he called out, “Good morning! What are you doing?”
The young man paused, looked up and replied, “Throwing starfish in the ocean.”
“I guess I should have asked, why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?”
“The sun is up, and the tide is going out. And if I don’t throw them in they’ll die.”
“But, young man, don’t you realize that there are miles and miles of beach, and starfish all along it. You can’t possibly make a difference!”
The young man listened politely. Then bent down, picked another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves and said, “It made a difference for that one.”
Each of us can make a difference to this world. Everybody is useful and it is just the matter of whether u want to make a difference.
Before you assume that I have got drunk and forgot my way back home let me tell you that I believe precaution is better than cure. Before that happens to me I did some research on ways to get back home after getting drunk.
Here is my suggestion-
Have a GPS chip in your phone- the police will track you down through the chip. Came to know about this through the funny post on onlygizmo.com.
It started off with me changing my handset to Nokia E-51 somewhere at the end of March. What followed was an endless complaining and cribbing that I did. That’s all that airtel allowed me to do.
Having got a brand new phone, I did what most people under such unfortunate circumstances do, call up their service provider for assistance! I called up your Customer Scare number and asked for the airtel mobile office settings and mms settings. Turned out it was too much to ask for. Just because I was an Airtel Customer that didn’t give me the right to ask for the settings right?
I know its good to surprise the customer with your service and stuff but that doesn’t mean you don’t do what I ask for and keep doing something else! I kept asking for the Mobile Office and MMS settings and they kept giving me airtel live settings. And my MMS didn’t even function for many days. Even if they activated it in between for small intervals they would activate the wrong schemes. Schemes which I asked for were never activated. After loads of complaining to the airtel customer centre they BARRED my 121[customer care] calling! That was actually very considerate. This way I wasn’t getting anything done but at least nothing wrong was happening!
Even visits to the gallery were about as helpful as calling 121. They assured my GPRS, MMS and 121 being barred issues will be taken care of. But even after two weeks of literally stalking them, they kept shifting me from one scheme to another.
The worst was when I asked for the nodal office number from the airtel gallery. They gave me a WRONG NUMBER. A number that didn’t exist. I was given the wrong nodal office number TWICE. Nope I didn’t make up this number, I didn’t get it from an imaginary friend, but your Airtel Gallery people gave it to me from a poster on the wall there.
Finally after calling customer care from my friends or dads cell [since my customer care was barred] I managed to get the correct nodal office number. I spoke to a nodal officer who assured me that all my problems will be solved within a few hours.
It’s been three weeks now and my prayers have been partly answered. Buddha had smiled and my 121 was started just yesterday. My mms is still not functioning even after for the 50th time asking them to activate the said scheme. I guess I will have to pray to another God for that one.
Specifics-
GPRS- Wanted mobile office 249 rental plan. Airtel live was activated.
After which mobile office zero rental was activated. Why do I pay for airtellive or a mobile office plan that I didnt want?
MMS- Was activated for a limited period with 0 rental scheme wherein I would have to pay rs. 5 for per mms [I must have sent a few during that interval]. Whereas I wanted rental 99 scheme. Also in the period that it was activated it was so moody. It would send mms to mobile phones but not to email ids.
Customer Care- Was barred for nearly two weeks. Which service
provider does that. I was told it gets barred for maximum a day if a
customer CALLS FOR TIMEPASS.
Gallery- wasnt of any help with activating customer care.
Also GAVE ME THE WRONG NODAL OFFICE NUMBER.
Retention department- since I got so bugged after the way I was troubled that I asked them to discontinue my number. I got more calls from the retention department than my mother calls me during a day to check on me. All calls were to ask me why I wanted to discontinue and every time I had to explain to them right from scratch why I want to discontinue my number. And they behaved like complete you know what when they BARRED MY OUTGOING WITHOUT INFORMING ME because I wanted to discontinue my number.
Nodal office- as I mentioned earlier I was given the wrong number. Finally when I got the number I spoke to shital from the nodal office who solved only my gprs problem and nothing else. I suppose it was more than a week back. After which whenever I have tried to call them the number was busy. Isn’t nodal office the last resort and isn’t it supposed to solve my problems within two hours.
All this happened in a month when I am extremely pressed for time and have a lot of work stress. Contrary to what impression you may have from the amount of time I had to pursue this issue, I actually do have work to do and and a life to live.
I am told I am a valued customer which I think I am as I generate a decent amount of bill and pay it regularly too. If management would pay less to saif and kareena and spend a little more towards improving their service I would really appreciate.
Also I DO NOT WISH TO PAY THIS MONTHS BILL. If they charge me despite troubling me so much I would be more than willing to move on to another service provider.
A VERY VERY troubled customer
PS- I am sure I have not been able to express my frustration in this write up. I have definitely been troubled more than what it appears on the blog.
“Black gown sounds best for the party. All I need to shop for is matching shoes. There is a sale in Her Corner store, would find the perfect bag there. Oh my god, I do not have the right accessories. Ok, all I need to do is swipe each of my credit cards for 10 dollars each and avoid the calls from the debt collector and lie to my best friend and lie to the love of my life and I am all set. Oh yes….I need the green scarf for the gown. It’s a desperate urgent need.”
This says it all. The movie totally revolves around Rebecca Bloomwood,the Shopaholic struggling with her temptations to shop and how it makes her lose all that’s important to her. The story starts off with her shopping, shopping and more shopping. She leads a double life. On one hand she writes on money, investment advice, finances and all that. On the other hand her shopping bags keep piling up and so do the bills. And before she realizes she has created a credit monster that threatens to destroy every beautiful thing in her life. Then starts a roller coaster, funny yet emotional, ride as Rebecca realizes she has to take control of her life and reclaim all the things that mattered to her.
Like all lovely girlie movies this one has a happy ending too. What really makes one enjoy the movie is….there is an awesome collection of clothes, bags and shoes shown. The guy Luke Brandon is reaaally cute, honest and integrated. The movie has its share of funny moments. And most of all ‘There is a little bit of her in every girl.’
Though orkut has the masses, facebook seems to have the cream. Most celebrities choose to interact with their friends, co-actors, directors, singers etc through facebook. Most of all they are there to interact with their fans. Almost all of them have a good number of friends on their list. Obviously they do not know all of them. So I presume they have loads of fans on their list.
Since I am in the Online Presence Management for Celebrities space I thought it would be interesting to share with you guys which of the CELEB profiles on facebook are genuine.
The authenticity has been checked out through various ways-
• Personal contact
• Reporter friends who have interacted with these stars
• Contacted the celebrities and received response from them over phone.
So in parts I will put their profile links on my blog for you to add them [if you want to that is].
Not been an avid blogger. But have keen interest in it now. Also have a feeling that it’s the future.
If you share same/similar feelings or for that matter just like socializing or meeting new people ‘Bloggers Meet’ is an event you would want to be at.
When and where
Date: March 21, 2009, Saturday
Time: 3.00 - 6.30 pm
Venue: Microsoft Corporation (I) Pvt. Ltd. 4th Floor, Windsor Building, Off CST Road, Kalina, Santacruz (East) Mumbai - 400 098
Whats gonna happen there?
Few sessions, a documentary and lots of networking.
Still have doubts about why you should be here. http://www.mumbaibloggers.net/bloggers-meet/ check out the people who gonna be there.
Join the dots presents “THEATRE FOR ALL” - a 3 hour theatre workshop designed for people between the age of 12-65 years. This workshop which will help you Bust the STRESS…Reconnect with the ACTOR in you and Experience the joy of creation and PERFORMANCE
During the theatre workshop, you will get the chance to play out stories you have heard, read and seen with a twist to them. Physical warm ups, mental stimulation and creative ideas will make this journey of three hours fun, memorable and an experience you will want to come back to get better at improvising on the spot….
Date - 22nd Feb 09
Batch timings - 1-4 pm and 4-7 pm
Registration fee - Rs.500/-
Venue - Jay Vanitha Hall, # 107
Aram nagar part 2,
Seven Bungalows,J P Road
Versova
Andheri (West)
Mumbai – 400061
Contact Rahul at 9820114834 for more details
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