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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:43 PM

The Page 3 culture's deep roots

While the pervasive Page 3 approach (a less newsy Page 6 for those New York Post fans among the Romantic Realist's readers) focusing on "who attended wearing what on their sleeve and on their body" rather than "what was show there"...
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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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Monday, November 10, 2008 6:59 AM

Refugees blogging for real refugees

If many bloggers are themselves refugees (either voluntary or involuntary) from the journalistic establishment, here is an idea worth blogging about. Bloggers Unite is a global, volunteer group of bloggers, podcasters and videobloggers who use their space...
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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...
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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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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:26 PM

Is Incredible !ndia in danger of becoming far-fetched India

Two emails since Saturday's New Delhi bombings and a story in 16 September Financial Express on Indian hotels hiking "tariffs despite slowdown, competition" have me thinking about the medium-term impact of the bomb blasts in New Delhi on...
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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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Friday, August 15, 2008 9:36 PM

Massaging Facts

A recent vacation at The Barai in Hua Hin and some blissful massages had me thinking about a recent story by Madhurima Nandy that talked of how spas are taking off big time in India, not just in the large metros but, in cities such as Lucknow, Indore...
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