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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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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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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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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:03 AM

Outsourcing the business of predicting the Obama-McCain race to India, via Vaastu

It is eight days to go before Americans finally decide on their next president. By many accounts—and most polls and forecasts-- Barack Obama is walking away with the election. Still, there are serious questions about many of the polls as well as the methodology...
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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...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:39 PM

Can Charticles help newspapers keep busy (and young) readers?

One of the interesting challenges of being in the newspaper journalism business these days is that the battle isn't necessarily just about circulation figures--especially in India where newspapers are so cheap that hardly anyone drops a paper because...
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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...
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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...
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:48 AM

Keeping friends close while making enemies via Facebook

For a long time I avoided Facebook , finally succumbing to it only when my LinkedIn got a bit too big for my liking. What I hoped to do was keep Facebook to a very small, tight group of "friends," people that I really, really want to engage...
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Friday, September 19, 2008 4:44 AM

All The Indian Prime Minister's (Author) Daughters

It is turning out to be quite the momentous year for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh . And I am not talking about his well chronicled and quite remarkable resurrection of the India-US nuclear deal, which, early this year, was all but dead. The only...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:53 PM

Fighting terrorists by throwing stones from glass houses

Since the 13 September bombings in New Delhi, there has been a lot written and said in the media about the challenges faced and lapses by police and other government officials in dealing with domestic terrorism. Much of it has focused on what steps ought...
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Friday, September 12, 2008 9:36 AM

Are Indian journalists prisoners of Western journalism?

A recent post on Indian prisons ( read it here ) got this interesting, tangential response from Arvind Kumar, a regular commentator on A Romantic Realist (see his comments on the Words Mean Little When It Comes to Gay Rights in India post here ). Kumar's...
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Monday, September 08, 2008 7:37 PM

Bottling the great new Indian train smell

I didn't know this until now but, for nearly 10 years, the Paris Metro train system has had its own smell--thanks to Madeline, a scent based on lemons, oranges and lavender. Every month, about 1.5 tons of Madeline are mixed into cleaning fluids and...
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Saturday, September 06, 2008 9:22 AM

An Indian Redemption Song--More Prisons or Faster Justice?

Two recent news items about state of India's prisons and prisoners raise some interesting policy and investment questions. Evidence 1: The Press Trust of India reported on 5 September ( read full story here ) that India's prisons are way past...
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:20 PM

Love and Hate in Airtel Land Redux--Or Why Do We Settle for Lowest Common Denominator

A reader's comments (below) on my love-hate affair with Airtel ( see Love and Hate in Airtel Land blog post here ) made me wonder why is it that as paying customers we want to settle for lesser of the evils, a much more pronounced trend in India even...
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