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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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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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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...
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Sunday, August 24, 2008 7:39 AM

Peanuts for IIM, caviar for cricket?

A news article in The Times of India on 24 August about salary packages proposed for new, paid selectors who will pick cricket teams for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (Read this BCCI story here ) made me wonder about how skewed our national...
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Sunday, August 17, 2008 2:49 PM

What does Wipro have to do with terrorists?

"Ex-Wipro agent's hand in hacking?" was the headline of a front page story in the New Delhi edition of The Times of India on 17 August about Taufique Bilal, one of the men that the Gujarat police say they suspect of being one of the brains...
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