Press was enjoying every bit of it showing off the power of Indian Cricket team which a reader would love to read about. But our own so called biggest news media in the state, Malayala Manorama got a bit carried away and couldn’t event recognize the some funny guy’s “Photoshop” trick. Oops!! Take a look at the following pictures. The first one is Ricky Ponting’s reaction to a misfield when the game was at the peak of...

I am not a regular newpaper reading person, but whenever I see one lying somewhere I just flip the pages and these days every newspaper has many ads in it from the government. Today morning I was flipping through the Mathrubhumi and found 2 full pages of advertisement side by side. One was about governments achievements in the last 5 years and another one was about the university stadium and some flag hand over. Two Full Page...

Target Rating Point Click here to read the previous part – The new circus called Media Where did it all start? Every one has been for the self regulation of the fourth pillar of Demo-crazy. We saw a small glimpse of this self regulation when India’s 9/11 happen in Mumbai. We saw how the self regulated media fought for their TRP’s at the cost of everything else. And the excuse they gave at the end of the day?...

I’m hired by myself here for this article , based on the debate I had with some of my friends in face book. The debate was on the search for the truth, the reason for the existence of human being and the need for religion. Being an agnostic, I believe in the superpower, many call it as GOD. No religion can be completely explained by logic and it constantly stand in front of people with new ideas. Every religion abandons the...

One thing I always noticed in Indian visual and print media – if they get some sensational news they publish it without taking steps to write or understand both sides of the news. Here is a perfect example. Yesterday few Malayalam channels and some newspaper had reported that Dr Shashi Tharoor has become the brand ambassador for Teachers Scotch Whisky (I never knew that there was a brand called Teachers and thanks to media I...

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