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I am a much braver man in the morning nowadays. There are no apprehensions (therefore no snapping at anything that can speak) and absolutely no dread of the competition. I pick up the bunch of our bunch of newspapers with an eagerness I stopped feeling many years ago. I am ready for them. I look forward to reading interesting stuff across the range of papers.

An exclusive in the Indian Express, for instance, is not something to read with a rising rage – actually not rage, but a passing feeling of anger, denial pain, agony and acceptance.

I don’t ask myself why we don’t have it. Earlier, I would. I don’t then look for holes to pick in the story.

There is just no need to throw the paper to the ground and stomp on it. Our own stories look a lot different, a lot better.

Don’t go through a story looking for typos and bad reasoning or context. Is this how a reader feels?

Don’t think so. I remember the well-informed activist readers we encountered during focus-group discussions of the paper. Some of them knew the paper better than a lot of our colleagues.

But I guess if someone were to sit me down and ask to critique the paper, I would also look for howlers, bad language construction or just some number with missing zeroes.

For the last some days, I have been neck deep in things that I never had on my table as a journalist. I don’t have to discuss the merit of a verb in the heading, or argue about a certain angle to the story.

I don’t remember seeing a single newspaper in some of the rooms I have been in for hours. Believe me, the people in those rooms look absolutely normal, and not as if they were missing anything.

In all my working years as a journalist, I have never been more than 10 feet from a newspaper. Never.

That’s probably why I actually look forward to picking up a newspaper.

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Posted by Yashwant Raj on Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 9:24 pm 
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  • Nathaniel Hamrick

    interesting… <3

    Paul 2012 from the United States!

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  • kyle davis

    Another very mis leading blog. Facts people Facts. You cant handle truth. Ron Paul is the best candidate to go against This Obomanation of our country!!!!

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  • kyle davis

    Another very mis leading blog. Facts people Facts. You cant handle truth. Ron Paul is the best candidate to go against This Obomanation of our country!!!!

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  • Psaxe

    Ironic that his name should be “Soren” son when mentioned in conjunction with the JMM!!!

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  • Psaxe

    Ironic that his name should be “Soren” son when mentioned in conjunction with the JMM!!!

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  • XJX400

    The sales of some of the VW and Skoda models cannot really be separated. This is because they are manufactured or assembled in the same factory. Example being Vento, Rapid, Polo and Fabia. When the monthly sales of all these models are summed up a completely different story emerges. A story that indicates that VW India is suffering from capacity constraints than anything else (attachment).

    Why this capacity constraint? From reading what is appearing in press it appears VW is not happy with the Maharashtra government’s decision the rescind the VAT refund wherein the car manufacturers with operations in Maharashtra were expecting to get VAT refunded on all their cars while the government is refunding only for those sold within the state. VW India appears to be on the hunt for an alternative manufacturing locations with an easy access to a port facility. Being largely seller of diesel cars, VW India is also sending out signals about their worry about Government of India’s diesel policy. This seems to be a reason for their not going with big capacity expansion to improve sales figures. Bottom line is VW India never appeared to be interested to be a volume player and seem at the moment to be pretty happy selling 4000 odd Vento+Rapid and 4000 odd Polo+Fabia. Imported models like Jetta are outrageously priced and sell in small numbers: it is difficult to draw a meaningful statistical conclusions from their sales figures.

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  • Sakyagm

    The coverage of population on specific diseases for example eye diseases has been comparatively better in Nepal for many years. Naturally, people from nearby states of India attend eye clinics. On the other hand, Japanese encephalitis may inflict severe brain damages that require a care of highly qualified experts and sophisticated facilities that are not available in Nepal. In addition, it is also true that many Nepalese including leading politicians go to India or elsewhere even for the treatment of minor conditions. They have no trust in their own facilities. They cannot be trusted too.

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  • NATU

    PUT TIS GOV IN DUST BIN OTHE WISE THEY WILL THROUGH EVERY THING AS WASTE PAPER

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  • DEEPAK VOHRA

    all officals responsible for protecting and looking ater these animals shoiuld be criminally prosecuted & fired. All responsible for killing, poarching, maiming, poisioning, trapping, torturing these animals should be hanged.

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    joe Reply:
    October 7th, 2012 at 1:46 am

    Is that you Dicky V of Lal Sitara?

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  • raji

    devastation of nature due to modernism/commercialism/deforestation/.. Nature does well with minimal human intervention. Our help is only needed when we have almost devastated them to extinction. And does india have the expertise and sincerity!!!

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  • gee

    It is alarming to read about this kind of poaching activity. Sooner the GOI wakes up the better it is for the jungles of India. Our famous jungles will fall silent soon with this rate of poaching. The nation requires an answer from authorities being paid by the nation. You are paid to protect and your failure needs an explanation and quick remedy.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/siggavala2 Sigridur Johannsdottir

    i live in iceland but i want to help.. how can i?

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  • Stacey

    It all comes down to funding and education. Our governments do not give protection of our living world sufficient priority, because the masses of most countries are more concerned with being able to afford the latest gadget from Walmart than saving a species. We need to start educating at a very earlier age that the world with all it’s ecosystems it’s more important to our well being than the acquisition of any “thing”.

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  • Dr.Yogesh Sharma

    Killings
    should not be Adored

    Nation celebrated Eid-ul-Zuha on Saturday, October 27, 2012, with
    extraordinary enthusiasm and fervor. Politicians, bureaucrats, media etc., were
    vying with each other in throwing Mubarakbad
    to Muslims as if they were participating formula racing. Almost all the
    newspapers and electronic channels were showing the pictures of helpless,
    innocent, voiceless, to be slaughtered goats, camels, buffalos, with the first
    sun ray. This animal sale/purchase was being held on the main roads and
    highways causing massive traffic jams. Similarly Eid namaz was also read on the
    roads and most of the roads witnessed traffic jams. Administration remained
    mute witness to all this. But, alas! In this secular nation where every body
    talk very highly about animal rights and
    non-violence, millions and millions of animals are butchered to celebrate a
    festival and joined by our so called secular leaders and media. Perhaps we
    Indians are hypocrites of the highest order.

    In this country even insects, rats, frogs etc., are not allowed to be
    killed even for medical and research purposes. The gangs of animal lovers are
    there to make big hue and cry on even minor harassment to animals. But on mass
    killing all remained silent. After the festival of Eid-ul-Zuha all the drains,
    sewers were filled with blood and flesh of animals. Road were littered with
    animal skins and bones. Every where cities were stinking. The most dangerous
    part of all this is that deadly bio-medical waste breeds deadly deceases and
    viruses. Even for deadly dengue virus this bio-medical waste is the best place
    to breed.

    But all these secularists, media, NGOs and activists are very vociferous
    in defaming Hindu festivals, like Dipawali (Noise Pollution), Holi ( Color
    Infection), Durga Statue Immersion ( Water/River Pollution) but they are all
    silent on this mass killing of animals, noise pollution and traffic jams (Namaz
    On Loudspeaker on high decibel and Namaz on Roads), Bio-Medical Pollution
    (Animal Killings).

    If this type of animal killing continues that day is not very far when in
    India
    goats, camels, buffalos etc., will be endangered animals. So adoration of
    killing must be stopped in the national interest.

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