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  • Instagram shares top trends and themes from Indian Memeaverse

    Instagram shares top trends and themes from Indian Memeaverse

    Mumbai: Photo sharing site Instagram has revealed that memes have become a pivotal part of pop culture on the platform and it shared the top trends and themes from the memeaverse in India. Comedy, crypto, gaming and astrology memes are the most popular memes on Instagram. Comedy memes are well liked with the prominence of topical memes like #sharktankmemes and rise of regional memes like #gujjumemes and #tamilmemes.

    Globally, with over three million people following #meme, memes are the way people express themselves, to communicate who they are and how they feel at a certain moment. To discuss trends in memes, share best practices and celebrate meme culture, memers and creators from around the world came together virtually for the second annual Global MemeCon (formerly known as Global Meme Summit), organised by Instagram. An exclusive viewing party was also held in Mumbai with top memers and creators from India in attendance, where trends pertaining to the Indian memeaverse were shared. 

    Facebook India (Meta) director media partnerships Paras Sharma said, “Trends from the Indian memeaverse highlight how memes fuel culture and we’re glad to share them, so more people in the ecosystem understand the meme space even further. Now with Reels, memes have evolved from photos, GIFs, to short videos, and creative tools like remix, collab and original audio, are helping accelerate creativity in memes all across India.”

    Ankit Chauhan aka @oyeankit, a meme creator from Surat, who’s rib tickling memes have traversed the internet and travelled internationally too, was one of the speakers at the global MemeCon. He said, “It’s great to see the meme community come together and chart the ways and means by which memes can be intertwined with culture even further. I was glad to be representing India at the Summit and highlight some of my memes that have travelled from Surat to San Francisco and beyond, on Instagram!”

    BoAt co-founder, CMO Aman Gupta said, “Memes are an extremely interesting content format and are most representative of youth lingo and appeal. #SharkTankMemes is the perfect example, as people meme-d moments and dialogues from the show on Instagram, and pushed it to pop culture status. Creators are certainly flag bearers of this meme-language and I hope the trends from Instagram provide the structure for people, communities and brands to think about memes more intentionally.”

    Top trends from the Indian memeaverse:

    Top followed meme hashtags in India

    #funnymemes
    #gujjumemes
    #tamilmemes
    #memesdaily
    #marathimeme

    Trending hashtags

    #iplmemes
    #telugumemes
    #kgf2 
    #gujjumemes
    #willsmith

    Topical and cultural moments that created meme-storms:

    Choti Bachi Ho Kya?
    Shark Tank India memes
    Your accent is so sexy
    Hera Pheri Memes
    Mr McAdams

  • Pulp Strategy Communications launches Hindu calendar app

    Pulp Strategy Communications launches Hindu calendar app

    MUMBAI: Pulp Strategy Communications has launched a utility lifestyle app called Hindu Calender. With this, the company has digitized all the information one needs pertaining to Hindu festive and religious dates, auspicious occasions and even astrology.

     

    The app gives ready access to the traditional Hindu calendar with a new digital UI. Based on the Hindu panchang, it marks out tithis, fasting days such as Sankashti, Ekadashi, Shivrathri as well as the Vedic Ritu, Paksha, Nakshatra, Mithuna (Sunsign), Dhanu (Moonsign), Yoga, sun rise and sun set time and Rahu Kalam. It highlights daily and pooja muhurat along with details on all the prominent Hindu festivals, legends, rituals, pooja vidhi and even customary recipes of traditional Indian delicacies.

     

    Keeping in mind how people are usually very keen on basing crucial decisions based on their astrological impact, the app provides information about important dates, daily Muhurats, important festivals and rituals.

     

    Pulp Strategy Communications spokesperson said, “Indians today reside across the world, in small nuclear families, many times the elders are away and there is no one to check for small rituals that possibly grandma or mom used to keep a track of, the app has those stories, popular folk lore, historical information as well as the complex religious rituals for those of our generation who want to follow traditions of their ancestors but may not have the information available on the how and when.” 

  • Enjoy a devotional start to the day with big magic Bihar & Jharkhand

    Enjoy a devotional start to the day with big magic Bihar & Jharkhand

    MUMBAI: In Indian culture and diaspora where over 30,000 Gods co-exist, all good things begin with acknowledging the presence of this supreme power and reiterating an unwavering faith in His guidance. Moreover, in the Hindi Heartland, spirituality and devotion hold a special place in the hearts of adults and children alike.Celebrating this culture, BIG MAGIC Bihar and Jharkhand now ensures that viewers have a great start to their day by tuning in to the channel! With 5 new shows marking an exciting revamp of the morning slot, viewers can now enjoy devotional programming on their favorite channel with content ranging from devotional songs, musical recitals of Holy Scriptures, astrology, pilgrimage and mythology starting 30th September, 2013!

    The greatest and holiest of Hindu scriptures emphasizes the importance of Bhakti towards God. Viewers can start their day with Bhagwad at 6am where verses from the Holy Scripture will be presented as musical recitals. Viewers can then shop for spiritual products in the Teleshopping slot at 7am. Hindus have immense belief in astrology – to gain a scientific explanation to the ancient science of prediction, viewers can tune in to Grehnakshatra Aur Aap at 8am.

    Renownedastrological scholars Reena Kapoor and Astro Pandit Ramesh Bhojraj Dwivedi educate viewers about the calculations of the Planetary Movements that affects our life. Thereafter, viewers can enjoy devotional songs in Bhakti Sagar at 8.30am. India’s rich mythological past comes alive with numerous places of religious importance in Bihar and Jharkhand. Tour these mystic marvels with Yatra Express at 9.30am. The devotional band ends with the wonderful story of one of the favourite Hindu Gods – Lord Krishna. Catch the mythological story of the 8th avatar of Lord Vishnu in Jai Shri Krishna starting 10am.

    Commenting on the renewed programming, Mr. Sunil Kumaran, Business Head, Big Magic Bihar and Jharkhand said, “Big Magic Bihar and Jharkhand has been the No.1 channel in the region and we seek to consolidate our position by introducing brand new programming in the morning slot. We are confident viewers will enjoy their devotional mornings with us.”

  • Shagun launches its first fiction show ‘Sajna Hai Mujhe’

    Shagun launches its first fiction show ‘Sajna Hai Mujhe’

    MUMBAI: Shagun – India’s first wedding entertainment channel is all set to launch its first ever fiction show Sajna Hai Mujhe. As the channel’s theme is to celebrate the evergreen festival of wedding so with this show they follow the same theme. Marriage in our country is treated as the most prominent happening in every person’s life and the channel is thus focusing on strengthening and enhancing the concept of marriage. The channel after presenting its viewers with non-fiction shows on travel, chat, astrology, shopping, matrimony, fashion and fitness it is soon going to please its viewers with this fresh fiction show also.

     

    Shagun channel MD Anuranjan Jha said, “Fiction has always grabbed the attention of the masses. It is the one stop which has always been all time favourite category of the television audience. So keeping in mind this factor we are now jumping into fiction category also which will definitely add more flavor into the channel.”

     

    Sajna hai mujhe aims to showcase the diversity in marriages in the Indian society. With this aim the story will revolve around three different couples who will be shown facing the ups and downs in their respective relationships. The show is believed to strengthen the factors like patience, sacrifice, empathy, love, understanding and forgiveness which are believed to be the core competence of every successful marriage.

     

    The show promises to be an interesting journey packed with drama, emotions and entertainment. The show is produced by Park Media and Ideaz Pictures and the cast includes actors like Amit Behl, Aadesh Chaudhary, Darpan Shrivastava, Nirmai Bali, Manmohan Tiwari and new face Shikha. The situations in the show will be realistic and circumstances will be common. The story line of the show will be quite relatable and the viewers will feel rooted to the norms and culture which are common in every second household of our country.

     

    Sajna hai mujhe will be on air from 2 September running from Monday to Wednesday at 8:00 pm on Shagun.

  • Trai orders access providers to comply with SMS short code guidelines

    MUMBAI: Sector regulator Trai has issued an order instructing all access providers to comply with the DOT’s guidelines issued recently for allocation of short codes by the access providers to the content providers including SMS based services.

    It is mentioned that the short codes are being used by service providers/ content providers for variety of applications including downloading ring-tones, contests, quiz, polls, information and enquiry service, entertainments, SMS Games, Astrology, Cricket updates etc.

    Access providers particularly mobile operators are allocating short codes to their content providers for various value added services including SMS based services within their network. Trai observed that some of these short codes were not in accordance with the National Numbering Plan-2003 and DOT’s earlier orders on this issue, asserts an official release.

    As per the license agreement access providers should adhere to the National Numbering Plan in this context Trai had asked access providers to stop use of these prohibited levels vide its direction dated 31 July 2006. Subsequently this issue was examined by DoT and necessary guidelines in this regard were issued.

    As per the guidelines issued by DoT five digit code starting with level five is to be used by access providers for allocation of short codes to their content providers including SMS based services within their network and accordingly all existing four digit short codes are to be prefixed by five to convert the same to five digit codes.

    Further the existing five and six digit short codes are to be migrated to five digit codes by replacing the first digit or first two digits respectively by five and so on.

    Trai has sought compliance of the DoT guidelines fro amll the access providers as and when the same is implemented but not later than 31 May 2007, adds the release.