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Announcement, Kerala, Trivandrum

Vizhinjam…Finally!

30 Comments 15 May 2008

Messing up the day’s Hindu, scrambling to find a news item which could possibly rewrite the development history of the state, Mr Prasad and me were surprised and thoroughly disappointed. There wasn’t even a mention of the Vizhinjam tender clinched by the LANCO group yesterday. Ten minutes later when Malayala Manorama deliberately kept the news [...]

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Kannur – John Mary’s witnesses

5 Comments 19 March 2008

The post is not about Kannur. The mainstream media which trashes blogs for their “opinionated posts lacking editorial control and thoroughgoing research” continues to surprise me with their half baked truths, thorough lies and embedded ideologies. The difference here is, they are paid to do what they are doing (with access to information) and many of [...]

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Thiruvananthapuram Sir

5 Comments 18 March 2008

Did you by chance see Economist’s last issue? I’m such a sucker for authority that I give it to anything that claims it. I’m a regular reader impressed with the vast amount of information that they cram into one issue that I come out of the reading room knowing all that is to be known [...]

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Tata’s Nano and Rajdeep’s Jeh

1 Comment 10 January 2008

Every morning Keshav gives me something to smile about, but this morning when Ratan’s five year war and marketing blitz reaches its conclusion, Surendran(thats how I read it) took a nice page out of Laxman.   courtesy: The Hindu And people who follow the stupid channel make cartoons out of themselves. Rajdeep’s channel, yeah the same one which made [...]

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Bloody Mary – Sagarika’s Circus

9 Comments 10 July 2007

It is funny, the shallowness of our much touted journos. If it appears that I am highlighting a few flaws in an article without addressing the bigger question, it could be true. Because that is exactly what Bloody Mary has done and  what such a superfluos article deserves. Sagarika Ghose’s(Bloody Mary)  latest column in CNN-IBN, [...]

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