Indian Media Bash Blog

New Delhi Television Limited was Prannoy Roy’s baby; they started off with small news capsules and weekend “The World this Week” on Doordarshan- much before the private news channels cluttered the Indian Cable Systems.
NDTV indeed was among the first news channels in India to start off with English news channels and then branching out to [...]

As I sat in the train swarming with gossiping ladies,I wondered whether the next news on our TV screens is a result of a similar grapevine.With increasing number of 24 hour news channels on our elite box, i beg to differ it’s an idiot coz we are on the recieving end.A box whatsoever pulls up [...]

The new ad for a scooter-ette called “Pleasure” from Hero Honda, is a breath of fresh air, purely on the merits of the background music. With a Caribbean feel to it, the ad always gets attention during the breaks of the Cricket match. Apart from the girl who asks the question “Why should boys [...]

For MAD magazine fanatics like me, everything in those pieces of satire is like pure gold! But believe me, the humor of MAD does not appeal to everyone. From “Alfred E. Neuman’s” various avatars to the “Letters and Tomatoes Department” and from the “The MAD Movie Satires” to the unforgettable “Spy Vs Spy” bloodbaths, all [...]

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There is lots of news going on about news media in India. A whole bunch of new channels have sprouted in a very short period of time, and the journalistic world is all upbeat about the variety and richness in content that is expected by this increase in [...]