Just sent this to lett...@thehindu.co.in. I dont expect N.Ram to publish this,
or care about it. But well ..
srs
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About your article 10 CPI(M) cadres feared killed.
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article23355.ece
You were - once, decades back - a newspaper
They used to have decent cricket coverage, and their crossword is legendary.
And they are miles better than TOI. Apart from that, they don't really have
a lot going for them now.
Do take a look at this link as well-
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6432134.html
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote:
They used to have decent cricket coverage, and their crossword is
legendary.
And they are miles better than TOI. Apart from that, they don't really have
a lot going for them now.
Their crossword isn't that good
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote:
They used to have decent cricket coverage...
Lahar, you gotta be kidding me. I vividly remember one of their well-known
cricket writers sidling up to me at the Bangalore press box a few years ago,
during an India-Pakistan
The Hindu's reputation, in my mind, is sort of a peer-driven meme. At some
point it became fashionable to say that they're an awesome paper, and it
became fashionable to say that their cricket writing is good.
I'm talking about way back in the 90s, when I was in school. I had access to
some
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm talking about way back in the 90s, when I was in school. I had access
to
some 3-4 papers in the school library, and the Hindu's match reports were
always the best.
It's still baffling, because all the 90s writers
Lahar Appaiah [22/09/09 12:45 +0530]:
Do take a look at this link as well-
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6432134.html
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6432134.html
Here's what Ramachandra Guha had to say about that disgusting article ..
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote:
They used to have decent cricket coverage, and their crossword is
legendary.
The Hindu crossword is legendary?
I have a very cross word for itLOUSY. Often there are Hindi words spelt
differently at different
The Hindu has different people setting their crosswords these days, I am
told (source: from memory, some crossword egroup). One of the guys who does
it is terrible, but one is quite good. If you're lucky enough to do the
crossword on the day he sets it, it can prove very entertaining.
As for the
