SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI writes: Whenever I see P. Sainath walk, I am reminded of the opening line in the novel Bharatipura by the Jnanapeeth award-winning Kannada novelist U.R. Anantha Murthy. Jagannath, the protagonist of the novel, is a young man in a hurry to implement his revolutionary thoughts, which he has picked up as much from…
Daily Archives: 31 August 2007
Should papers, TV publish terror suspects’ pix?
The police in Hyderabad, have released the “sketch” of the suspect (above) who they say was behind the bomb blastswhich killed several dozen people at an auditorium. The computer-aided sketch was then carried by all newspapers and television stations to help solve the crime. It will be a happy ending, of course, when the guy…
A 3-year-old kid answers publishers’ prayers
When newspaper publishers, editors and analysts are constantly wondering where their next reader is going to come from, Press Trust of India is reporting what must be the answer to their combined prayers. *** ROURKELA, Orissa: A three-year-old child prodigy in the Steel City has taken everybody by surprise as he is able to read…
’21st century media is an amoral being’
Sagarika Ghose in the Hindustan Times “The blame immediately shifts to the media—both print and electronic. It’s the media that’s responsible. The media do not show floods. The media do not show poverty. The media sensationalise blasts. The media are luring politicians to become trapped into a hall of mirrors where reality doesn’t matter. “Is…
