Daily Archives: 10 March 2007

A. Jayaram on the way out of The Hindu?

RAMYA KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: The quiet revolution at The Hindu in Bangalore continues. With Parvathi Menon taking over as chief of the bureau, the door has reportedly been shown to her predecessor Arakere Jayaram. Informed sources say the paper’s editor-in-chief N. Ram telephoned Jayaram today and indicated that the time may have come to…

When the old lady became a harlot

KANCHAN HARIHARAN forwards a “poem” that was written when The Times of India first decided to “charge” its clientele for editorial space, a couple of years ago. Author unknown. ‘Frankie’ in the verse is the venerable late Frank Moraes who headed the daily for many years after independence, when the Jains took over the management…