On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 May 2010 10:24 AM, sankarshan wrote: >> Currently, ToI is too tempting a piece of entertainment to resist > > Entertainment that makes you cry and pull your hair out? I'll resist > despite myself, thank you.
When the Asian Age came started being published an friend observed that it had set a trend of newspapers which would be functionally useful for bin lining, spreading out on the grass before sitting down and so forth. The ToI, as I see it, amply fits that bill. Additionally, the somewhat rushed nature of their 'reports' also make it worthwhile to while away time. I don't have enough hair to pull out - has been that way for years now. So, the temptation to turn to the scalp has always been less ;) > So do other newspapers. At least one published from Chennai and hated > by many on this list does. And I agree. The Sakaal Times does that too among other papers available at Pune. For some reason, my newspaper vendor uses the ToI to wrap all the other papers I read and, so it gets the pride of place as breakfast entertainment. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/>
