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  Deepak

  1 year ago

  Thats great and very interesting post. loved it sid...
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  Mayura

  1 year ago

  What all will be done for a profit motive. Sigh!
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  Rajesh Kumar

  1 year ago

  That’s called a real expose. It has all the elements of one actually. There’s the camera(never mind someone else is holding it for you!), then there is the tv angle(so important for a real expose in today’s world!) and then there is this journo called Sidin who dug up the story!!!
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  Sayon M

  1 year ago

  The movie "Flag of Our Fathers" has the scene very well portrayed(good job uncle Eastwood)...imagine the desi version of the same movie(similar scene)....Bapu k Zhanda...lol
  
  good blog..
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  Titto

  1 year ago

  surely ripping is bit 3 much sid
  nice observation....and well said
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  shyam

  1 year ago

  yes.
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  Googler

  1 year ago

  Awesome job on the googling & investigating Sidin. Plagiarism IS our middle name,ain't it?
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  Abhi

  1 year ago

  Man,you spoiled someone's I day :p.Just done with watching Independence Day on Star Movies and the memorial was in there too !
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  Biju Narayan

  1 year ago

  Ofcourse yes!
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  Amrita

  1 year ago

  Well, at least they could've ripped it off decently... what kind of school did that kid at IBN go to? chee!
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  Gourav

  1 year ago

  Aw come on Sidin not fair....they were just inspired thats all... thoda adjust kariye :D
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  Partha

  1 year ago

  Whatay shame!!
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  Sandesh

  1 year ago

  High levels of Journalistic standards being displayed by IBN folks....Nice catch Sidin
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  mataal

  1 year ago

  Hoots of lafftar...
  Kudos for sharing that rip-off sidin
  the po' ol' lazy grapghic designer at IBN
  
  -mataal
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  SEV

  1 year ago

  That was so ultimately stupid of CNN-IBN.
  
  Well spotted :) Indeed a great celebration of independence, we are now under the rule of America.
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  Bikerdude

  1 year ago

  Long live Indian chutzpah, I say. We wouldnt have had veg hamburger if it werent for it.
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  Arpz

  1 year ago

  :) plagarism, thy name is Indian citizens :P
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  sidin

  1 year ago

  Yes. Coming to think of it I am pretty sure I could have taken it to India TV at the very least.
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  sidin

  1 year ago

  Exactly. I mean reverse engineering is one of our national specialties no?
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  Sandesh

  1 year ago

  In Chennai there is a statue called Labor Statue which has a "similar" setup...
  http://www.pbase.com/oochappan/image/44137219
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  Manoj

  1 year ago

  nice catch of the plagiaristic act. creativity is strongly associated with Media folks. Alas, a national Tv channel shows a dark example.
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  harish

  1 year ago

  Well, what else can you expect from the team of IBN? Shamelessly copied.
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  sharad

  1 year ago

  nice one ya...good observation
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  Dreamer

  1 year ago

  Sidin,
  
  I guess IBN7 is not to blame. Apparently there really is a sculpture in Kashmir modelled on the Iwo Jima one.
  (Read about it at http://dcubed.blogspot.com/2004/12/moments-of-e...)
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  Kusum Rohra

  1 year ago

  astronomically nincompoopish.
  
  That will be my phrase for the day.
  
  * repeats the phrase in a loop *
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  Plumber

  1 year ago

  Cmon dude,
  
  You expect pee-sized brains in the media to come up with something original to celebrate the Indian Independence Day?
  
  Why should they? They have more profitable things to do like covering a celebrity marriage, conducting an opinion poll to confirm whether 60 years of Independence constitute more than half a decade or not, etc. Morons!
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  Plumber

  1 year ago

  pea-sized*, beg your pardon!
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  freebird

  1 year ago

  well interesting find but as someone said, I am bored of plagarism reports. :-)
  
  (have a look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/freemind/1132505735/ )
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