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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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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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Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:19 PM

The (un)intentionally offensive Indian?

There has been a lot of renewed debate in India this past week about Muslims, Hindus, Pakistanis, “true” Muslims, Jews, Americans and Islamists, as India and Indians come to terms with the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. It is only natural that issues of...
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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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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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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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Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:36 PM

The making of an Obama front page

Barack Obama's election saw a surge in newspaper sales, temporarily lifting the mood in what has been a very gloomy year--full of layoffs and cutbacks--at American newspapers. While the story was quite compelling, powerful images also drove sales...
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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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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:07 PM

Of Headhunters and their Cattle Calls

Lost in the 21-month battle that Barack Obama waged to try and become president of the United States is perhaps the fact that, come 20 January 2009, when the 44th President is sworn in, it will be one of the most challenging assignments anyone can voluntarily...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:12 AM

May you Rest in Peace and, by the way, Happy 100th birthday

Two seemingly disparate pieces of news from two continents both sounding the death rattle for celebrated media organizations that ought to be joyously celebrating their 100 th birthday tells you the story of an industry that is hurting badly in much of...
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Monday, October 27, 2008 2:21 PM

When blogs beget blogs that beget blogs...

Increasingly, many of us in print media are coming to realize that content is not king, conversation is. A good example of that, for me, has been the fact that a couple of recent blog postings on A Romantic Realist , in addition to generating a lot of...
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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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