Sorry, I was away celebrating the Congress victory...:)))...Now I'm hoping this victory means that the organized right-wingers trawling the Internet will become just a little less organized. I hope you got yourself a copy of our brilliant election special issue? Clearly the editors at Open magazine...

23 April I GO TO JAIL Morning’s come early to Bhagalpur. By 5 am, households are fully awake. I am going to meet the candidates fielded by various parties. Bhagalpur has a significant number of marriage halls, which are encashing on the room demands created by the party cadre accompanying the candidate...

Plenty, in overcoming food insecurity and biofuel crop scarcity. Last week, scientists published the complete genome of sorghum, a heat and drought-tolerant grass species. For many, this cereal is best known as a biscuit-topping syrup, for others it's a staple crop, which feeds more than 500 million...

Raju Narisetti stepped down as Mint editor effective 1 January 2009. His Mint blog, A Romantic Realist, will be archived after this last post. Thank you for reading and reacting to it and we look forward to your continued involvement with Mint's blogs. Livemint

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 on 22 December in relation to a previous "Open...

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, and resulting, usual speculation of a potential...

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 to alert htreporters@hindustantimes.com for any "bloomer"...

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 does try harder and is much more acutely aware of...

I Want Media , an online media resource, recently named Arianna Huffington co-founder of the online news and opinion site, The Huffington Post , as the 2008 Media Person of the Year in a poll that saw her easily trump the likes of Rupert Murdoch of News Corp, Tina Fey, the dead-on US television impersonator...

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 read and not the other. What is interesting to me...