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THE CIRCUIT – MULTI GENRE COMEDY FESTIVAL PROMISES A LAUGHTER PACKED WEEKEND
The first digital edition of OML’s multi genre comedy festival The Circuit’s #SitDownComedy continues to entertain everyone with 5 days of hilarious performances by India’s best comedians. Have a perfect weekend with ace comedians coming live on your screens with a fun mix of stand-up games, roasts, a storytelling show, Punjabi showcase and a lot more. This weekend, the festival will feature comedians like Tanmay Bhatt, Naveen Richard, Varun Thakur, Aadar Malik, Urooj Ashfaq, Abhish Mathew, streaming live from their homes in a variety of different show formats, to give audiences a variety of unique digital experiences.
Each day, 3 shows go live, each with an interesting line-up and a fun mix of formats. Tickets for the shows can be booked on Insider.in, after which a link will be sent to ticket buyers, through which they can enjoy the show. The festival is designed to give an interesting experience to various kinds of audiences, adapted for at-home consumption to give viewers a unique experience by getting up, close and personal through virtual performances. As we fight against the current uncertainty around us, the comedy festival hopes to spread some happiness and provide entertainment while you are at home.
The Circuit comedy festival continues the trend of spreading laughter through digital live shows every night until 26th (Sunday) April 2020. The festival is brought by OML Entertainment Pvt Ltd, the creators of India’s decade-old and much-loved Happiest Music Festival ‘Bacardi NH7 Weekender.’, and is empowered by Bumble India.
Tickets are live on Insider at https://insider.in/the-circuit-comedy-festival-2020/article. After purchasing tickets, details about how to log in to attend the digital festival will be sent over.
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‘You packed my parachute’: Avinash Kaul’s farewell salutes Network18’s unsung thousands
The outgoing chief’s LinkedIn post skips the boardroom tributes and goes straight to the security guards, drivers and office boys who kept the machine running
MUMBAI: Most farewell posts by senior media executives follow a familiar script: gratitude to leadership, a nod to the team, a hint of what lies ahead. Avinash Kaul’s is not that post.
Writing on LinkedIn on his last day at Network18 Media & Investments, where he spent nearly 12 years rising to chief executive, Kaul bypassed the boardroom entirely and directed his most heartfelt words at the people furthest from it: the security guard who greeted him before the building was fully awake, the fleet staff who drove him to airports at ungodly hours, the office assistants, the housekeeping teams, and the administrators who, as he put it, “held ten thousand invisible threads so the rest of us could look organised.”
“You packed my parachute,” he wrote. “Every day. Without fanfare, recognition, or ever asking for it.”
It was a striking note from a man who leaves behind a considerable operational record. Kaul joined Network18 managing three channels and exits with responsibility for 20, alongside a publishing business, a growing connected television footprint, and what he says is the highest revenue and highest channel share in the group’s history. He was quick to deflect the credit. “Not because of me. Because of 4,000 people who showed up, every day, in every department, across the country.”
To content teams across India, he issued a reminder that carries some weight given the pressures Indian news media currently faces. “Keep being custodians of trust for 700 million people. That is not a small thing. That is the whole thing.”
To colleagues in revenue and ratings who found him relentless and hard to satisfy, he was unapologetic but generous. “There was never a single moment of ill intent in my heart. Everything I pushed you towards came from one belief – that you were stronger than you knew, and I was not willing to let you settle for less than your real capability.” Those who believed him, he said, flew. Those who did not taught him to be a better communicator. He was grateful to both.
On what comes next, he offered a hint wrapped in metaphor. Something is being built, he said, prepared for “the way you pack a bag before a long climb. Not out of restlessness. Out of readiness.”
In a media landscape that rarely pauses to acknowledge the people who keep the lights on, it was, at the very least, a different kind of goodbye.
