New Delhi: Looking at the figures of the Indian Readership Survey, including the ones where it is shown that there are publications whose readership numbers are actually lower than their circulation numbers, you cannot but laugh at the obvious silliness of it all, especially that it took a nationwide survey to find out what is a simple truth in the… Read more →
As you would have been doubtless aware, a tiger, which was on the prowl in the Doddabeta forest area near Ooty, was shot dead in an armed operation at night, which naturally made shooting virtually impossible, thereby putting the whole operation under enormous risk, especially that of the media that had to eventually make do with the visuals of the… Read more →
If you are father of a teenage girl, you will face many challenges almost daily, and sometimes on a hourly basis, but nothing will be more daunting and dispiriting than the one when she walks up to you on a quiet evening or a cool night when you are blissfully reading a book or aimlessly surfing the net, and breaks… Read more →
Going into the weekend, Chennai has a well-publicised book exhibition and two high-profile literary festivals underway, and not surprisingly the buzz among the city’s knowledgeable folks and on the social media circuit has been pretty much centred on Veeram and Jilla, the Ajith and Vijay starrers, with the wordings on the tickets of the two films being the total reading… Read more →
You have to love the Chennai Open Tennis championship. It has a unique character that can only be dreamt of at, say, Roland Garros or Flushing Meadows. For, it is only here at the mildly cavernous SDATN Tennis Stadium, sitting at the top of one of the stands, with the vagabond wintry breeze undoing your carefully-combed hair, you can mentally… Read more →
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