India's national newspaper

seven wrote:ahan! so now we will get some real national news, ya?

best newspaper? well maybe, but how is it going to conquer north india without money?

charvaka wrote:Good for The Hindu. I wonder if their Delhi circulation is at a respectable level; they've been in that market for over a decade now.

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

charvaka wrote:Good for The Hindu. I wonder if their Delhi circulation is at a respectable level; they've been in that market for over a decade now.

Yeah, I was probably their sole subscriber in Delhi and my only interest in reading the Hindu back then was their awesome cryptics.

blabberwock wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

charvaka wrote:Good for The Hindu. I wonder if their Delhi circulation is at a respectable level; they've been in that market for over a decade now.

Yeah, I was probably their sole subscriber in Delhi and my only interest in reading the Hindu back then was their awesome cryptics.

I used to think that they were awesome too until I came across much more fiendish ones.

When I try them now, they don't seem all that awesome anymore. But I do owe it to The Hindu for triggering my interest in cryptics.

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

blabberwock wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

charvaka wrote:Good for The Hindu. I wonder if their Delhi circulation is at a respectable level; they've been in that market for over a decade now.

Yeah, I was probably their sole subscriber in Delhi and my only interest in reading the Hindu back then was their awesome cryptics.

I used to think that they were awesome too until I came across much more fiendish ones.

When I try them now, they don't seem all that awesome anymore. But I do owe it to The Hindu for triggering my interest in cryptics.

Yeah, awesome is probably the wrong word. It's just that after a while, you start becoming familiar with the clue-setter's way of thinking and terminology, and then develop a loyalty to that crossword. Before The Hindu, I was a big fan of this gentleman called VNR Rao who used to set the cryptic clues in Deccan Herald's Sunday section.

blabberwock wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

charvaka wrote:Good for The Hindu. I wonder if their Delhi circulation is at a respectable level; they've been in that market for over a decade now.

Yeah, I was probably their sole subscriber in Delhi and my only interest in reading the Hindu back then was their awesome cryptics.

But I do owe it to The Hindu for triggering my interest in cryptics.

Rashmun wrote:Perhaps the best Indian newspaper all set to conquer North India:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6095/6339179133_050dac7ea3_b.jpg

I loved the last sentence of N.Ram.

The Hindu as an institution had in the past valued its editorial integrity over all else. In the recent period, editorial integrity has been severely compromised and news coverage linked directly to advertising in a way that is little different from paid news. A meaningless distinction has been sought to be made between walls and lines, and the walls between editorial and advertising are sought to be replaced by “lines” between them. Very recently, those of us who were not privy to the deal making learnt to our shock that a major interview with A. Raja in defence of the telecom licensing policy published on May 22, 2010—that was referred to by the Prime Minister in his press conference--involved a direct quid pro quo in the form of a full page, colour advertisement from the Telecom Ministry that was specially and hurriedly cleared by the Minister personally for publication on the same day in The Hindu. The contrast between such a deed and pious editorial declarations including the campaign against paid news cannot be starker. To continue with such practices, the editorial structure is sought to be changed, with the editor being made subordinate to an executive board comprising a majority of business side executives. The undermining of the primacy of the editorial function is an attack on the very soul of The Hindu. In the context of these distortions that have crept into actual practice, the high sounding code of editorial values that is sought to be publicised now would seem no more than empty rhetoric.

SomeProfile wrote:

Rashmun wrote:Perhaps the best Indian newspaper all set to conquer North India:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6095/6339179133_050dac7ea3_b.jpg

I loved the last sentence of N.Ram.

If you are N Ram, it doesn't cost you much to print sentences like that. Whether they are true or not is a different matter.

Here's something from N Ravi, his own brother, republished at http://blogs.outlookindia.com/default.aspx?ddm=10&pid=2485&eid=31:

The Hindu as an institution had in the past valued its editorial integrity over all else. In the recent period, editorial integrity has been severely compromised and news coverage linked directly to advertising in a way that is little different from paid news. A meaningless distinction has been sought to be made between walls and lines, and the walls between editorial and advertising are sought to be replaced by “lines” between them. Very recently, those of us who were not privy to the deal making learnt to our shock that a major interview with A. Raja in defence of the telecom licensing policy published on May 22, 2010—that was referred to by the Prime Minister in his press conference--involved a direct quid pro quo in the form of a full page, colour advertisement from the Telecom Ministry that was specially and hurriedly cleared by the Minister personally for publication on the same day in The Hindu. The contrast between such a deed and pious editorial declarations including the campaign against paid news cannot be starker. To continue with such practices, the editorial structure is sought to be changed, with the editor being made subordinate to an executive board comprising a majority of business side executives. The undermining of the primacy of the editorial function is an attack on the very soul of The Hindu. In the context of these distortions that have crept into actual practice, the high sounding code of editorial values that is sought to be publicised now would seem no more than empty rhetoric.