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Friday, January 02, 2009 6:42 PM

Last Post

Raju Narisetti stepped down as Mint editor effective 1 January 2009. His Mint blog, A Romantic Realist, will be archived after this last post. Thank you for reading and reacting to it and we look forward to your continued involvement with Mint's blogs...
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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...
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Saturday, December 20, 2008 10:43 AM

Why Anil Ambani wants $2.1 billion from his brother, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance; Arthur Sulzberger Jr of The New York Times and the Romantic Realist

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...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:02 PM

We were wrong but you are still wronger!

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...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008 11:34 AM

When the No. 2 is really trying harder

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:58 AM

Truth, lies and humor in political advertising

((Postscript on 27 November morning: That pre-poll surveys can be fickle and advertising messages go by the wayside with the mood of voters likely to shift instantly was sharply reinforced with the Mumbai terrorist attacks targeting the Taj Mahal and...
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Monday, November 24, 2008 12:31 PM

Woman on Top or heads in the gutter?

With predictable regularity, one can spot a label headline in Indian newspapers that says "Woman on Top." It could run on a story about Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi, a chess team, a CEO appointment, any award for any woman...you get the drift. Examples...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:05 PM

Touché

Regular readers of this Romantic Realist know he is a bit of an equal opportunity offender when it comes to the hand that feeds him. Still, in the face of smart creativity, one has give credit where credit is clearly due. The latest November 16-20 2008...
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Monday, November 17, 2008 5:25 AM

On a newspaper's birthday and an industry's birthday suit

It was good to see a fat one-year-old show up at my house on 16 November morning in the form of a 96-page Mail Today, the slimline (a slightly longer tabloid) daily newspaper in New Delhi from the India Today group that turned 1. The 96-pager had a lot...
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Friday, November 14, 2008 4:14 PM

Heads Above (and Below) The Rest-2

An occasional look at some great and not-so-great headlines, all trying to be clever and some pulling it off better than the others. Heads Above The Rest 1. Mail Today's 14 November front page headline " Billionaire Slide Show " is a clever...
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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...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:20 PM

Price on request? Well, why don't you request it?

Coming out of one Indian holiday season and headed into Christmas and New Year, Indian magazines and newspapers are full (well, not too full in these tough economic times) of editorial features clearly aimed at getting readers to buy stuff. But what really...
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