Daily Archives: 2 March 2010

You have read the column, now read the paper

The Times of India has a new weekly newspaper on the stands, and it’s called The Speaking Tree. The eight-page broadsheet, encompassing “higher… and contemporary new age spirituality” is an extension of the eponymous column on the edit page of the paper. Priced at one rupee and edited by Narayani Ganesh, The Speaking Tree marks…

The Taslima Nasrin “article” that cost two lives

The front page of Saptahika Prabha, the weekly magazine section of the Kannada daily Kannada Prabha of the New Indian Express group, carrying the controversial piece on the burqa by Taslima Nasrin, which led to protests and riots in Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa‘s hometown, Shimoga, killing two people on Monday. The story titled Purdah…