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Disappointing "Times"

Yesterday, as usual I fetched the two newspapers left at our doorstep. I opened "Sakal", the marathi daily which we generally read. It carried a story of "Bharat Ratna" as its main headline. In fact, it filled its upper half of front page. Congrats to one of India's greatest singers ever, Bhimsen Joshi for getting this honour. On that happy note, I shifted my attention to Hindustan Times. And well what do I find? Obama and Mc'Cain had taken over their headlines.
Ok, some of you might say, "HT" is an english daily, so it has the so called "global" reach. Well.. Fair enough..Can you explain why there was just 2-3 lines of mention of Bhrat Ratna, that too in the corner. Even today they have not rolled out any details about Joshi's music career. And you know what, they even had a story about Gambhir's request to stall his 1 match suspesion being denied. Was this story more important than Bharat Ratna? In fact, did this story actually belong to the front page at all? And I thought Bharat Ratna is India's highes Civillian Honour!! Cant believe, that these people could not get a decent interview of Joshi in last 2 days. How pathetic!!!
I guess had it been Sachin or Amitabh, then it belonged to the front page. Even today, there is little mention of Bharat Ratna in HT and the TOI has Obama kissing his wife. WTF? If these news papers dont show respect to our "greats" or should I say "Legends", then they dont have the right to criticize the government for neglecting these "legends". After all, they are doing the same thing, no? Shame on you HT and TOI.

P. S.: My friend Nik was also furious over the same issue. He has even uploaded the front page images.
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Nikhil said…
I have decided not to read these newspapers.
November 6, 2008 at 8:19 PM
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