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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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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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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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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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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 6:23 PM

Should Indian journalists cover up the truth?

Credit Hindustan Times with a fascinating Page 1 story on 27 August headlined " And a Gold for Press: How boxer Jitender's split chin was kept a secret ." Reporter Saurabh Duggal reveals how the Indian media contingent at the just concluded...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:55 PM

How bad writing (and no editing) can bias readers

Here is a Press Trust of India newswires story that ran in Hindustan Times on 19 August. I have put in italics and underlined some words that are worth paying special attention to as you casually read this story. Ahmedabad blasts: Ken Haywood slips out...
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Monday, August 18, 2008 7:03 PM

Insane waste of tax payers money to debate "reasonable" restrictions on mobile phones

Not too many people would have noticed a Parliament of India ad on Page 13 of Hindustan Times' New Delhi edition on 18 August. It turns out that the Committee on Petitions of the Rajya Sabha has decided to consider what it dubs as a petition for "Imposition...
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Monday, August 18, 2008 9:11 AM

A liberated ghetto for women?

Hindustan Times debuts a weekly page on "the Indian woman, her concerns and dreams, stories of hope, change and inspiration." On Page 14 in 18 August newspaper, the page called Simply Woman, talks to Beijing Olympics shooting gold medalist Abhinav...
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 3:00 PM

Words mean little when it comes to gay rights in India

A recent Newsweek factoid that India is among just 35 countries in the world that practice an unexpected form of sexual discrimination in that they formally criminalize sex between men but not between women, heightened my interest in what Indian health...
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Friday, August 15, 2008 9:49 PM

Inner wear and tear

News that Oswal Retail, a subsidiary of Punjab-based Oswal Group, has decided to shutter its "innerwear" business and close 22 exclusive Straps outlets didn't quite get the same attention that the breathless coverage India media gives to...
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