Hard Nuts vs. Cookies
From a very readable article in the latest edition of Technology Review* “You Don’t Understand Our Audience“, an excerpt that applies equally well to the media in India. The background to this extract is...
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More on Nano…and blindspots – from Sheshabalaya
Ashutosh Sheshabalaya ,whom I quoted in my earlier post, has followed up with another brilliant piece of writing in The Globalist in which he talks about Nano and India’s impact on the larger global...
On Nano, global warming, India and China
Srinivas Bharadwaj, writing in rediff recently, made some great points about the “trashing” of Nano by some in the western media (“Why some US scribes slammed Tata Nano“, Jan 14 ’08) � Excerpts: “…Tata...
What has Asia go to do with Sudan and UK?
An alert reader sent me this great example of politically perfect reporting (emphasis mine): Police are investigating a racially motivated act of vandalism which was linked to the case of the British teacher who...
What has “a Hindu” got to do with this?
Came across this gratuitous reference in a recent ANI story about an Indian American in Britain who has filed 40 cases of racial discrimination with employment tribunals in Britain. The news-item had this “nugget” towards...
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