The Cauvery “agitation” is 30 days old today. For exactly a month now, Sun TV has been invisible in most houses in Mysore and Bangalore, thanks to the linguistic flame burning brightly in the heart of the cable operator. Tamil movies have been off cinema screens in both cities. The “ban” has been lifted in…
Daily Archives: 6 March 2007
If a picture says a 1,000 words, then this…
Hindustani maestro Gangubai Hanagal, who turned 95 on Monday, captured in a confluence with the synonym for the shehnai, Ustad Bismillah Khan, at the Sri Rama Navami music festival at the Fort High School grounds in Bangalore in 1993. This picture by Karnataka Photo News editor Saggere Ramaswamy (then with the Indian Express) has gone…
What a newspaper editor told Mahatma Gandhi
A car stood on the tarred road, parched land spreading endlessly away around. In it were three men, two of whom were asleep. The car had engine trouble, and the driver had wandered off on foot to find help. In the back seat the only one of the three still awake was Anantarao Chikodi, a…
Honey, who killed our newspaper?
It’s not the Internet alone that’s killing newspapers. It’s the equity-chasing investors and “cut-and-gut” bandicoot publishers who put outsize profits before a free press. All they are bothered about is downsizing, rightsizing, cutting costs, squeezing more, says Eric Klinenberg in the latest issue of Mother Jones. Read the full article here: Breaking the News
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