Daily Archives: 30 November 2006

Bangalore and New York: the connection

The word in Bangalore three days ago was that the City’s oldest English newspaper was up for sale and that the possible buyer was a listed newspaper company looking to come to Bangalore. NDTV Profit quickly put the news on the air, and then faced with denials from the company, equally quickly pulled it off.…

Journalists v Academics

Should journalists be generalists—writing about all and sundry but giving readers a snapshot of the world without boring the pants out of them? Or should they be like academics, specialising in one or two subjects and writing with gravitas and authority even if the readers gets lost in the thickets of cliches and jargon and?…