India - A Romantic Realist

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:37 AM

On open letters and media ethics

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...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 28 comment(s)

Tagged in: Raju Narisetti, India, Mint, media criticism, romantic realist, code of conduct, media industry, P. Chidambaram, media ethics, business standard, ak bhattacharya, raisina hill

Thursday, December 18, 2008 4:14 PM

When Kalam doesn't cut it

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...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 16 comment(s)

Tagged in: India, terrorism, abdul kalam, narayana murthy

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:21 AM

Arianna Huffington and The Laid-Off Journalist, the yin and yang of Western journalism

I Want Media , an online media resource, recently named Arianna Huffington co-founder of the online news and opinion site, The Huffington Post , as the 2008 Media Person of the Year in a poll that saw her easily trump the likes of Rupert Murdoch of News...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 5 comment(s)

Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:40 AM

When journalists make a business case for why their rival newspaper is also a must-read

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...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 6 comment(s)

Tagged in: India, Mint, hindustan times, Times of India, media criticism, elections, Congress party, bjp, suresh pachauri, jyotiraditya scindia, assembly, kamal nath, madhya pradesh

Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:19 PM

The (un)intentionally offensive Indian?

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...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 14 comment(s)

Tagged in: India, raju narisetti, terrorism, Mumbai, racism, vir sanghvi, hindus, muslims, saja.org, journalism criticism, mohsin hamid, paki, style book, daiichi, black, japs, ranbaxy, saja

Sunday, November 30, 2008 7:55 PM

A Prime Minister Who Should Be An OpEd Writer

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...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 15 comment(s)

Tagged in: India, Mint, raju narisetti, terrorism, Mumbai, romantic realist, manmohan singh, indian elections

Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:58 AM

A shameful silence

As I write this, it is now 14 hours since news of terrorist attacks in Mumbai started trickling in and the situation remains both volatile and confusing. Since then, George W Bush, US President-elect Barack Obama, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, Pakistan...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 50 comment(s)

Tagged in: India, terrorism, Mumbai, manmohan singh, barack obama, sonia gandhi, Oberoi, Taj Mahal hotel, George Bush

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:41 PM

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable

Every once in a while, a story comes along that reminds this Romantic Realist that journalism--and newspapers--can still be about comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable . Here is one such story that ran on the front page of Mint on 12...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 4 comment(s)

Tagged in: India, Mint, raju narisetti, media criticism, romantic realist, newspaper industry, medical errors, CII, Jayant Bhuyan, Analjit Singh

Thursday, November 06, 2008 5:34 PM

I am No 1. No, I am No. 1

Newspapers readers in New Delhi woke up on 6 November to front pages dominated by Barack Obama's clear win. But readers of the two main papers in town, The Times of India and Hindustan Times also got what amounted to dueling headlines on their front...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 10 comment(s)

Tagged in: India, Mint, raju narisetti, hindustan times, newspapers, Times of India, media criticism, IRS Round 2, MRUC

Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:49 AM

Whose IPR is it anyway?

If it weren't such an egregious violation of the Indian Copyright Act of 1957, there would be delicious irony in the fact that India's National Knowledge Commission , a high-level advisory body to the Prime Minister of India created with the objective...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 41 comment(s)

Tagged in: India, Mint, raju narisetti, new delhi, media criticism, romantic realist, knowledge commission, copyright, center for science and environment (CSE), sunita narain

Sunday, October 12, 2008 12:46 PM

So, how many Muslims do I have in my newsroom--and my life?

It was one of those serendipitous encounters. Rather than continue waiting for an errant car service at 6.30 am on a Saturday morning and risk missing my flight, I walked up to someone on the campus of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore since...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 57 comment(s)

Tagged in: Raju Narisetti, India, Mint, journalism, terrorism, media criticism, romantic realist, hindus, muslims

Monday, October 06, 2008 3:54 PM

Rooting and voting for Obama from the Indian electoral college

Every four years, one reads stories--and polls--about how the rest of the world actually prefers the candidate that often loses in the US presidential race. Many of us remember reading about how if Indians could vote, Bill Clinton would still be the US...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 7 comment(s)

Tagged in: Raju Narisetti, India, Mint, barack obama, economist magazine, bill clinton, john mccain, US elections, sarah palin

Saturday, October 04, 2008 11:31 AM

Political Kiss-Up and Up

Two separate but somewhat related news items caught my eye this weekend. One was about the Indian government, led by the Congress party, announcing several economic and aid packages with an eye toward key state elections ( read full story here ). The...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 3 comment(s)

Tagged in: Raju Narisetti, advertising, India, Mint, newspapers, sheila dixit, sonia gandhi, elections, Congress party

Friday, September 26, 2008 7:59 AM

How am I really doing or how to improve customer service the Chinese way

A lot of ink, digital or otherwise, has been devoted in recent years to comparing India and China, especially in terms of infrastructure--or lack of and their abundance of wide roads, large airports... But what is less talked about is how both countries...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 8 comment(s)

Tagged in: customer service, India, Mint, raju narisetti, china, immigration

Sunday, September 21, 2008 2:06 PM

The out of body experience of reading airline inflight magazines

I love India's large private airlines, especially Jet Airways , which I have been a loyal fan of since it started. In Jet, and also Kingfisher (though, unlike many, I have steadfastly stuck to my first love--the why being a matter one day soon of...

Posted by Raju Narisetti | 10 comment(s)

Tagged in: India, Mint, raju narisetti, magazines, romantic realist, naresh goyal, Starbucks, Jet Airways, Howard Schultz, Kingfisher airlines

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