“No parenting skills” a lame excuse
I was absolutely disgusted reading the paper this morning to find that the Department of Children and Families had released the information...
"No parenting skills" a lame excuse
I was absolutely disgusted reading the paper this morning to find that the Department of Children and Families had released the information...
Can we expect re-Kindled sustenance for papers?
As if in response to the depression I expressed in a previous post about the pathetic size of newspapers these days, an article in The...
Black and white and read all over
Flickr photo by Matt Callow So everyone’s naturally been asking what’s different about journalism in India than here in...
Flying like a Maharani
Flickr Photo by Premshree Pillai A week before my departure from Chennai my dad gave me explicit instructions on how to check my bags all...
Let the punishment fit the crime
Eleven-year-old Shanno of the Delhi Municipal Corporation primary school in Bawana couldn’t recite the English alphabet properly. As...
The lesser of two evils
There’s a game young teens in America play, where one person presents a scenario, suggests two unfavorable plans of action, and the...
The mynah incident
Two weeks ago, Chennai readers were shocked to see in the paper a doctored photo of two mynah birds appear on the second page of The Hindu....
Scribbled in the margin: “off the record” information
If there’s one thing journalists hate hearing from their sources it’s the dreaded “this is off the record,” as if...
Scribbled in the margin: "off the record" information
If there’s one thing journalists hate hearing from their sources it’s the dreaded “this is off the record,” as if...