Businessweek magazine has compiled its latest list of the “50 Most Powerful People in India”. There are four media people on it—a pioneer-entrepreneur who founded an advertising agency, a software company and an internet portal; a publisher who inherited the world’s biggest selling English language newspaper; a writer who founded a pathbreaking webzine turned magazine—and…
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‘Anybody here been raped and speaks English?’
Who is the best judge of a foreign correspondent? The readers, editors and bosses of the foreign correspondent? Or the residents (and critics) of the places the foreign correspondent is reporting from? Surprising as it may sound, Amit Varma contends that it is the latter, and offers by way of evidence a Washington Post report…
If public service is God’s service, then…
The Island newspaper in Sri Lanka has the country’s chief justice caught in the short and curly in its lead headline, and then gets smart in its apology: “In a lighter vein, we wonder if the reference to ‘hell’ conjured up the nasty printer’s devil.” Link via India Uncut
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