The first issue of Deccan Chronicle (DC) was delivered to my doorstep (free of cost) along with a copy of the Deccan Herald, more than a week ago. On the first page, there was a box about DC’s entry into Bangalore which said something about how the newspaper wants to be No. 1, just like [...]
In an excellent opinion piece about bigotry in India titled The Crowded Centre, Ramchandra Guha writes:
The creation of linguistic states was a legitimate concession to the pride that Indians took in their respective mother tongues. It is permissible for a state to demand that the language of administration be in the mother tongue; also [...]
From Kalpana Sharma’s excellent piece Invisible Women about a documentary called Lakshmi and Me:
We usually wake up to their existence when they don’t turn up for work. And the first response is annoyance, because of the inconvenience caused to us. Many professional women don the title of being superwomen because they manage jobs and homes [...]
Ari Melber’s article Facebook: The New Look of Surveillance is a fascinating look at the privacy issues with the social networking site Facebook. Excerpt:
Like guests at the Hotel California, people who check out of Facebook have a hard time leaving. Profiles of former members are preserved in case people want to reactivate their accounts. And [...]
One of the victims of the recent incident in Mumbai where two women were harassed by a mob of men has spoken to the press. Here are some excerpts from an interview with CNN-IBN:
… We did not think it would turn this big and media would constantly take it up. We just wanted to [...]
An interesting piece (speech actually) via The Hoot from Outlook India’s editor Vinod Mehta.
Do readers know what they want?:
There is one more critical challenge, one that is rarely discussed in journalism seminars or among serious editors. But I notice advertising managers and self-styled media pundits pontificate on it endlessly — and they have by [...]
I just had to link to Jaya Uttamchandani’s opinion piece on The Hoot Breaking News!. An excerpt:
With that said, let’s not forget Shah Rukh Khan. And yes, we are still taking cricket and we are still talking NEWS. First a cameraman and Kaif had a tiff while the cricketer had gone to watch Shah Rukh’s [...]
I had heard about the goings on in Malaysia and the arrests of the ethnic Indian population there but I hadn’t realised the full extent of the situation till I read Dasu Krishnamoorthy’s piece on The Hoot:
Everyone in India knows Indra Nooyi or Mira Nair. But how many know Basudeo Pande or Jagennath Lachmon? Hardly [...]
I’d never heard of Anthony Loyd, but his book Another Bloody Love Letter caught my eye in the library, and I picked it up. Once I started reading the book, I found it hard to put down.
Another Bloody Love Letter is book is about war–specifically about wars in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and Iraq. But, [...]
There’s a recent Tata Tea ad in which a citizen asks a politician, who has come to campaign for votes, some probing and uncomfortable questions. The tag line of the ad is Jaago India, which I would (in the context of the ad) translate to Rise (up) India.
Since the ad is impressive, I checked [...]
