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• A reply on Conversation: Is commercializing cinema good?

  Jan 20 2012: Hi Simon,
  Sure commercialization has done a lot of good to the arts economically. But the darker side of it has given us an unbearable loads of mediocrity.

• A reply on Conversation: Is commercializing cinema good?

  Jan 20 2012: Hi David,
  
  I couldn't agree with you more.
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  A reply on Conversation: Is commercializing cinema good?

  Jan 17 2012: Hi Xavier, do you think the entertainment industry and media should be accountable to a government body? My point is that a present day Hitchcock does exist but only is harder to find as he is lost in the midst of this ever commercializing industry.

• A comment on Conversation: Indian Constitution is not obsololete !!

  Jan 17 2012: Hi Angela, you have to understand that change is never instant. We as Indians are going through a transitional period. Hence we find extreme differences in our society. We see secularists and religious extremists living as neighbors and so on. Thus an amendment can be acceptable for you and not for me and vice-verse. Change is taking place and at this point of time patience if the safest weapon we ought to carry.

• A comment on Conversation: Will medical advances against cancer mainly help people in wealthy countries or can they help all of the world's people?

  Jan 17 2012: What if a large percentage of the present costs of cancer treatment could be invested in its research? After all the cure for cancer is not there yet.