So you are stuck. Is in fact two words or one? Is it its or it’s? Theirs or their’s? Don’t worry all of us get into that jam. Like we did for a story on page 7 today, when nobody could properly spell physicist, and Bhanu who was sitting next to a dictionary couldn’t even…
Daily Archives: 20 November 2006
A 10-point recipe to save newspapers
Mark Potts who runs the wonderful blog Recovering Journalist, has a ten-point recipe for struggling newspapers. You can read the whole piece here. A couple of points are very interesting, especially the one about getting rid of the editorial page; hopefully we can have a debate on them here. 1. Make the web the primary…
CAT is still not out of the bag for us
There are plenty of red faces around here today. Or at least there ought to be, if there aren’t any. First the good news. Even on a slow news day, we have managed to put out an okay front page. There is a neat explainer on the Chinese president’s visit. There is a good exclusive…
The name is Vivan, Sridhar Vivan
Can anybody believe a young man who says he went to see Casino Royal alone—yes, ALONE—yesterday? BTW, he avers it’s a darn good movie. That, too. Can anybody believe a young man who says he went alone to a movie to see the movie?
N for Nietzsche, I for Iliad, R for Rasputin
Over lunch at the almost-magnificent New Modern Home, under the benign gaze of Nehru and Gandhi and Anadurai, a certain somebody whose surname begins with M got a call on his cell. The caller couldn’t latch on to the odd-sounding name. And the three of us in unison chipped in to make the lady understand:…
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