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Readers of this Romantic Realist are used to seeing a lot of posts on Indian media. Since there is now some published debate on this particular issue, I thought it might be interesting to post this open clarification that ran on the front page of Mint on 22 December in relation to a previous "Open Letter" by an unnamed IAS officer that had...
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Stories in Indian media about estranged billionaire brothers, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries Ltd , India's most valuable company by market capitalization, and Anil Ambani , of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group , shaking hands at a meeting of industrialists, and resulting, usual speculation of a potential thaw between them, reminded me of this legal...
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In one of those typical company-wide emails that only IT people can send, one landed in my in box a little while ago, titled " How Can I Contribute in Saving Corporate Costs?" The IT department has decided that sending me an excerpt from a speech, supposedly given by former Indian president and now major gadfly , A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, titled...
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In what was a predictable pick, here is what Time magazine had to say in naming Barack Obama as its 2008 "Person of the Year": "For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, the President-elect is TIME's Person of the Year...
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The Page 3 culture's deep roots
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While the pervasive Page 3 approach (a less newsy Page 6 for those New York Post fans among the Romantic Realist's readers) focusing on "who attended wearing what on their sleeve and on their body" rather than "what was show there" is how most Indian metro newspapers cover art these days, just how deeply entrenched this has become...
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Being a believer in newspapers having a clearly articulated and transparent corrections and clarifications policy, this Romantic Realist was delighted to see Hindustan Times promote a very prominent Clarifications/Corrections column that asks readers to alert htreporters@hindustantimes.com for any "bloomer" in the paper and promising that...
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Hot off the press is news from the World Association of Newspapers/World Editors Forum of this prestigious award. The Romantic Realist , who is on the board of the World Editors Forum , is delighted that a South Asian journalist has been recognized for standing up to authoritarian regimes. Here is the citation from WAN/WEF, though I think it should...
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Muntazer al-Zaidi , the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at US President George W. Bush during a press conference, in what is typically an act that ranks among the worst possible insults in the Arab world, was at least making a direct--and risky--public political statement about Iraqi deaths following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Indeed, the television...
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Readers of Romantic Realist might remember he is partial to Jet Airways despite all the over-the-top allure of relative upstart Kingfisher Airlines. But here is a vivid example of how being No. 2 to Naresh Goyal's Jet, Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher does try harder and is much more acutely aware of the need to go the extra mile: Exhibit 1 4.07 am...
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Every once in a while a new word or phrase is coined, usually by a researcher or by the media, that has all the ease-of-use and shorthand built into it to quickly become a word that will get widely used and end up in a dictionary. This morning, from Agence France-Presse comes this story and headline, and the Romantic Realist suspects " tech sex...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:40 AM
It is not unusual in New Delhi to get marketing pitches for why The Times of India or Hindustan Times are the essential morning reads. I don't know what the overlap of readership is between both papers but each one does try to say they are the must read and not the other. What is interesting to me is how journalists and editors at both papers seem...
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The (un)intentionally offensive Indian?
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Raju Narisetti
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:19 PM
There has been a lot of renewed debate in India this past week about Muslims, Hindus, Pakistanis, “true” Muslims, Jews, Americans and Islamists, as India and Indians come to terms with the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. It is only natural that issues of race, religion, ethnicity and skin-color, all of which are deeply rooted in the Indian psyche, bubble...
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A Prime Minister Who Should Be An OpEd Writer
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Sunday, November 30, 2008 7:55 PM
Usually, it is the opinion page editors of newspapers who are in the habit of telling the government and the people as to what ought to be done. In India, however, it is Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's speciality as the man who can get things done and who is supposed to get things done has increasingly turned into an editorial writer (or editorial...
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