so what's new? the north dominates as the representative face of india whether its in media, public relations or whatever. Silicon Valley may be the one place where south india has an equal if not greater presence.
Its not just about THe Hindu. Everybody ignores the vernacular press whereas distribution for these are much greater than times and or HT. North India and then ENglish speaking india have hijacked the identity of india. This Pakistani response also tells me how colonized they are that they generalize english speaking newspapers to all of india. 2005/12/3, Subash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > sometime back (months? i don't have the link now) jace had put up a > similar analysis of the indian print media by an indian which > went along very similar lines. and my reactions to that piece, as to > this one, were very similar to yours udhay. > > when these guys talk so blithely and in general terms about the "indian > media" i really wonder whether they've sampled enough data. :) but, > given their data, which, like you say, seems to be restricted to the > TOI and HT, the problems they talk about are real and urgent enough. > > regards, subash > > p.s.: apropos to the pakistani/indian thingy, while living in saudi > sometime back, i realised that pakistanis are one of the keenest and > largest consumers of hindi, equated again with 'indian', stuff: films > and filmy journals and of course, indian cable tv. at 'indian' cultural > get togethers it would be funny to see how naturally the northies and > the pakis would bond. the mallus and the tams would stick out, like, > whatever... :) > > On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:52:37 +0530, > Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 08:45 AM 12/3/2005, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > > > > >A Pakistani journalist laments Bollywoodisation of Indian print > > >media. > > > > I would've found it more useful if he made his analysis a little mroe > > comprehensive. The problems he talks about are real. However, the way > > his article is phrased makes me wonder if his sample was larger than > > the _Times of India_ and The Hindustan Times_? For instance, does he > > read _The Hindu_? > > > > I wonder what Subash Jeyan, among others, thinks of this piece. > > Subash? > > > > Udhay > > -- Radhika, Yeddanapudi R.
