Deepti is a funny girl. Whenever some one tells her 'no, that's not possible', she makes sure she makes the 'impossible' a reality.

Deepti doesn't care about old-fashioned paradigms or hierarchy. Everybody is equal, and if she wants to talk to the prime minister of India or for that matter Her top bosses in organisation, she makes sure s/he sweeps his/her calendar for her.

And why the heck are only the huge international publishers 'allowed' to launch magazines? Magazines that are made out of old templates and seem to be clones of existing titles. No wonder the entire magazine and newspaper industry are crumbling. They refuse to deliver what we want.

Now the time has come for a new international cross-over media movement. Everybody loves facebook. Well, four hundred million people love facebook, and post lots of cool things there everyday. Still not a single magazine gives facebook any attention whatsoever. The same goes for Flickr. The material that is published there is top notch quality. Still, not a single established medium gives them a second glance.

How silly.

That's why the Blank Page is..Black. It is carte blanche BLACK for YOU! And YOU! And YOU!
You see no arrogant editorial staff standing in your way here. What YOU want in the magazine, will get published in it, unless a bunch of other co-creators happen to vote otherwize. This magazine is based on real democracy.

WELCOME To The www.BlackBracket.Com

An opputunity coming your way....

So please tell me, show me, let me hear what YOU want to come in the paper edition of the Black Page. A website to aid you, for us to fill with whatever you want. Doesn't it sound marvelous? On the website you can publish lots of other things too, like videos and your own music. In the paper edition you can refer to your online material.

Don't be shy, step out into the sun and show the world who you are!...

Grecian Urn ... who would have the luck to save it...

Markets across the world were rattled briefly after Standard & Poor's downgraded Greece's rating to "junk" while also cutting the ratings of Portugal and Spain, citing these nation's spiraling debt. Risk appetite tumbled, with commodities and stocks taking a beating while the dollar and gold gained. The cost of insuring against sovereign debt default by Greece, Portugal and Spain surged while the spread between the benchmark notes of Greece and Germany shot up. I really shuld be educated as to how the benchmark spread does weave its magic of economics ... (comments invited ... )

Sentiment across asset classes, markets and regions nose-dived as European leaders dragged their feet over a rescue package for Greece, stoking fears that the debt-ridden nation could end up defaulting on its obligations.On top of that Europe was excepted to grow at 1-1.5% at best , 2 % ... with this crises, and the way Greece has kept its balance sheet .. EU must have a real trouble convincing all to put the last straw of safety.

So, the EU and IMF decided to raise the aid package to €120bn over three years, up from an original plan of €45bn this year. The Financial Times (FT) reported that Greece has agreed the outline of a €24bn (US$32bn) austerity package. Final details of the measures, which are intended to slash the budget deficit by 10-11% of GDP over the next three years, were still being worked out, the FT added. A successful auction of Italian debt also helped soothe nerves. Global stocks also got a boost from strong earnings from major US companies, which lifted Wall Street and raised hopes that the world's largest economy was picking up steam, tempering some worries about Europe's debt problems.