shreya ghoshal: winning back ohio

Do you know what’s special about June 26th?

Besides being chocolate pudding day, June 26th is internationally known as Shreya Ghoshal Day.

Shreya Ghoshal (born March 12, 1984) is an Indian singer. Best known as a playback singer in Hindi films, she also sings in other Indian languages including Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Odiya, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu language… Ghoshal was also honored from the U.S. state of Ohio, wherein governor Ted Strickland declared June 26 as “Shreya Ghoshal Day”. |from Wikipedia

playback singer

I’ll confess: before learning about Shreya, I had no idea what a playback singer was. I also had no idea there were so many different Indian languages. I can’t help you out with the latter, but I did make this handy graphic to explain the former:

like Kathy Seldon (Debbie Reynolds) in "Singin' in the Rain," Shreya records songs so actresses can lip-sync through the songs in their movies

like Kathy Seldon (Debbie Reynolds) in “Singin’ in the Rain,” Shreya records songs so actresses can lip-sync through the songs in their movies

shreya ghoshal day

Here’s a YouTube clip showing Shreya being honored by the state of Ohio with her own day:

Shreya was 26 when that video was made. I’m 30 and still waiting for someone to give me my own day.

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zw2.06: reign czech

Intrepid journalist Hank Talbot continues his exposé of the disturbing political agenda behind the zoo world facebook propaganda blitz.

We have the dots. We have the history of the dots. We have the histories of some dots that only tangentially relate to the dots we started with. We have even connected most of the dots. Now we fill in the last few lines, stand back, and see the full picture.

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zw2.05: reign czech

Intrepid journalist Hank Talbot continues his exposé of the disturbing political agenda behind the zoo world facebook propaganda blitz.

A simpleton might jump to the conclusion that the ferris wheel represents American democracy or some such nonsense. This notion, perhaps fueled by the presence of “George Washington” in the name of the wheel’s inventor (George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.), is lacking a larger historical perspective. Identifying the wheel with capitalism is similarly small-minded. The fact that Ferris’s Chicago Wheel made a good deal of money only serves to underscore the magnitude of the thievery of the Columbian Exposition’s planners, who absconded with the profits and left poor Ferris . . . well, poor.

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