This novel by #JeffreyArcher is the reason I became a journalist. Until I finished my degree, I had managed to avoid every bad habit except reading. Textbooks were unavoidable, of course, but I spent as little time with them as I could. Instead, I got library cards at three different libraries and set myself the rather ambitious task of reading every book on their shelves. Inspired by John Grisham’s novels, I joined LLB, convinced that becoming a lawyer would guarantee me a life of adventure. He was the first novelist to send my life in the wrong direction. By then, I had read almost every novel Jeffrey Archer had written. Almost. There was one exception. I finished "The Fourth Estate" in a couple of days. By the time I closed the book, my career plans had changed once again. The novel was loosely based on the lives of Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch, two men who went on to build enormous media empires. One inherits a newspaper at the age of twenty-two after his father dies. The other, at the same age, acquires a failing printing press for just one dollar and uses it to launch a newspaper. In time, both build media empires spanning newspapers, television channels and much else across the world. I was twenty-two myself. And suddenly, becoming a newspaper owner seemed considerably more exciting than becoming a lawyer. So I went straight to the taluk office and bought the forms required to start a newspaper from a stall run by one "Junde Muniyappa". The ₹65 they cost was paid by my friend Nani, who happened to be with me. I somehow assembled all the documents required, filled in the application and sent it off to Delhi. A month later, a reply arrived from the Registrar of Newspapers for India. I was given three months to start a newspaper under the name "The Student Planet" and send copies for registration. Three months later, a newspaper appeared bearing the imprint: Editor, Printer, Publisher, Owner: S Shyam Prasad There was, naturally, one small complication. Since I was the editor, printer, publisher and owner, I also had to be the reporter. The novelist who gave my life that unexpected direction, Jeffrey Archer, has today, at the age of 86, brought his remarkable journey as a writer to an end. I owe him a debt I can never repay. 🙏🙏🙏

Vasantha about her frd who brainwashed her: #PremadaOorali

ನಾನೊಬ್ಬಳೇ ಹಾಕಿದ್ರೆ paid ಅಲ್ಲ ಕಣ್ರೋ, ಇರೋ ಬರೋ accounts-ಗೆಲ್ಲ ಹಾಕಿದ್ರೆ ಕಣ್ರೋ paid. ನಾನೇನೋ sarcastic ಆಗಿ ಹಾಕಿದ್ರೆ 'paid' ಅಂತಿದೀರಲ್ಲ... ಏನ್ ಹೇಳೋಣ ನಿಮ್ಗೆ!

#CityLights: #DuniyaVijay represents people often ignored in mainstream #Kannada cinema. But he resorts to emotional manipulation & leans on unbearable violence to draw sympathy towards characters. The world building is fine, but writing lacks nuance. This his weakest film