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Why I live in India.

Okay, it took me slightly longer than a day, Jose, my apologies. (For those not intimately engaged in our comment conversation, Jose, a reader on this blog, asked why I came to India. Something tells me he would prefer to ask why the heck haven’t I left yet—and he’d be happy to show me the door—but,...

Posted to The Expat Blog (Weblog) Posted by Melissa A. Bell on 09-02-2009
On open letters and media ethics

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...

Posted to A Romantic Realist (Weblog) Posted by Raju Narisetti on 12-23-2008
When the No. 2 is really trying harder

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...

Posted to A Romantic Realist (Weblog) Posted by Raju Narisetti on 12-14-2008
Price on request? Well, why don't you request it?

Coming out of one Indian holiday season and headed into Christmas and New Year, Indian magazines and newspapers are full (well, not too full in these tough economic times) of editorial features clearly aimed at getting readers to buy stuff. But what really gets my goat is how many of these features have...

Posted to A Romantic Realist (Weblog) Posted by Raju Narisetti on 11-11-2008
Outsourcing the business of predicting the Obama-McCain race to India, via Vaastu

It is eight days to go before Americans finally decide on their next president. By many accounts—and most polls and forecasts-- Barack Obama is walking away with the election. Still, there are serious questions about many of the polls as well as the methodology, a little-discussed debate in mainstream...

Posted to A Romantic Realist (Weblog) Posted by Raju Narisetti on 10-28-2008
So, how many Muslims do I have in my newsroom--and my life?

It was one of those serendipitous encounters. Rather than continue waiting for an errant car service at 6.30 am on a Saturday morning and risk missing my flight, I walked up to someone on the campus of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore since he too looked like he might be headed to the airport...

Posted to A Romantic Realist (Weblog) Posted by Raju Narisetti on 10-12-2008
Can Charticles help newspapers keep busy (and young) readers?

One of the interesting challenges of being in the newspaper journalism business these days is that the battle isn't necessarily just about circulation figures--especially in India where newspapers are so cheap that hardly anyone drops a paper because they need to buy another paper every day. I mean...

Posted to A Romantic Realist (Weblog) Posted by Raju Narisetti on 10-08-2008
Rooting and voting for Obama from the Indian electoral college

Every four years, one reads stories--and polls--about how the rest of the world actually prefers the candidate that often loses in the US presidential race. Many of us remember reading about how if Indians could vote, Bill Clinton would still be the US president! As the saying goes, if wishes were horses...

Posted to A Romantic Realist (Weblog) Posted by Raju Narisetti on 10-06-2008
Political Kiss-Up and Up

Two separate but somewhat related news items caught my eye this weekend. One was about the Indian government, led by the Congress party, announcing several economic and aid packages with an eye toward key state elections ( read full story here ). The other story was on that Congress party has picked...

Posted to A Romantic Realist (Weblog) Posted by Raju Narisetti on 10-04-2008
Keeping friends close while making enemies via Facebook

For a long time I avoided Facebook , finally succumbing to it only when my LinkedIn got a bit too big for my liking. What I hoped to do was keep Facebook to a very small, tight group of "friends," people that I really, really want to engage with--a real walled garden if you will--while keeping...

Posted to A Romantic Realist (Weblog) Posted by Raju Narisetti on 10-02-2008

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