google advani ad comes along with all mails. Its another way of
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:30 PM, damodar prasad <[email protected]>wrote:

> advaniku vendi adwanikeyo?
> dont give much xposure!!!
>
>   On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:31 PM, bobinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Google showed the ad:
>>
>> "Your Support Is 
>> Crucial.<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=Bx0t_xkaRSdnvKaioqAOrosHXC4iKz4QB4uieuwrAjbcB8ICzAhABGAEgho-AAigJOABQmPOdjv7_____AWDliuaDuA6yAQlnbWFpbC5jb23IAQHaATBodHRwOi8vZ21haWwuY29tL2hjcHZ6OThlajFqZXEycDY5cjc4cHdlNmN6bDFlcjiAAgGpAm9yTjCQE1Y-yAKozrEJqAMB6AN76ANM6APpBugDkAT1AwAAAAQ&num=1&adurl=http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/>-
>> www.lkadvani.in - BJP-NDA for Parliament. Advani for PM"
>>
>> When I opened this mail.
>>
>>
>> 2009/2/10 ranju radha <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>>> An award for Mr Advani
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=3643&mod=1&pg=1&sectionId=1&valid=true
>>>
>>> Among those who were not amused at NDTV's choice were the jury of its
>>> Indian of the Year awards. This was not an award that they had voted
>>> on.  THE HOOT's take on NDTV's Lifetime Achievement Award.
>>>
>>> Posted Saturday, Feb 07 10:06:33, 2009
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It can get a bit sticky when you get into this business of giving
>>> awards to politicians. NDTV's politician of the year award went to
>>> Shiela Dixit but the channel was stuck with the problem of having L K
>>> Advani as one of the nominees.  How do you embarrass a prime
>>> ministerial candidate from the Opposition by having him turn up for
>>> the ceremony and get nothing?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So it seems to have found a way out by giving the redoubtable rath
>>> yatra man a Lifetime Achievement Award  presented on the same evening
>>> as the Indian of the Year Awards. So there you had Laloo Yadav present
>>> and watching as the man whom he had arrested back in 1990 was feted
>>> for his political achievements.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not surprisingly the choice has raised eyebrows. What exactly, some of
>>> us want to ask, have been Mr Advani's  contributions to Indian
>>> politics which deserve an award? Setting in motion the events that led
>>> to the destruction of the Babri Masjid?  And contributed  to a
>>> heightened  communalising of the Indian polity?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> An award coming from a channel that helped to expose the 2002 pogrom
>>> in Gujarat which took place under the watch of a Bharatiya Janata
>>> Party government? The party Mr Advani is leading into the elections
>>> this year? A channel that  doubtless sees itself as a champion of
>>> secularism?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Among those who were not amused at NDTV's choice were some members of
>>> its jury of the Indian of the Year awards, which comprised  Fali
>>> Nariman, Shashi Tharoor, Anu Agha and William Dalrymple. This was not
>>> an award that they had voted on, but that was not made clear when all
>>> awards were given at the same function, and  two of the jury members
>>> wrote to Prannoy Roy to say as much. One of them said he would not
>>> want to be associated with any award which gave prizes to communal
>>> hatemongers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Upon which Roy clarified that he had not meant to embarrass them, but
>>> that  it  has been the normal practice every year for NDTV to reserve
>>> the right for its editors to select and present one or more non-jury
>>> awards.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Which still begs the question: why did its editors think Mr Advani
>>> deserved a lifetime achievement award this year?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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