The reverberations of Amitabh Bachchan‘s blog comments on the Academy Award-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire are now being felt in the “cesspool” of Indian journalism. In his reaction to the movie, Bachchan wrote in January: “If SM projects India as [a] third-world, dirty, underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let…
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How a slumdweller became a Newsweek reporter
The demographic profile of journalists worldwide has undergone a radical transformation in recent years. Whether it has actually made journalism better is a question readers, viewers and listeners answer every day and night with their remote controls and subscription renewals. Once the lowliest of low professions—the last hope for lazy bums, the dregs of society…
What a headstart of 1,562 months doesn’t give
In an interview with Sruthijit K.K. of contentsutra, N. Ram, editor-in-chief of The Hindu, talks of how things have changed for the “Mount Road Mahavishnu” after the entry of The Times of India in Madras: “It’s good, we welcome competition. The Times of India is a major newspaper…. I never put down The Times of…
How an Oscar winner ushered in a newspaper
Last year, when The Times of India made its big move to Madras to take on The Hindu, it used music composer A.R. Rahman, who won two Academy Awards today for the best original song and best score for the movie Slumdog Millionaire, as its vehicle of change with this slick television commercial. Also read:…
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