When I came to know that a woman & that too a supposedly old & 'spiritual' woman like her owns TOI, I was shocked considering the pornographic content of Bombay Times. (I am not sure if it is still so).
I see no difference between her & Playboy's Hugh Hefner.
TOI is actually referred 2 as 'Toilet Paper of India', 'Timepass of India' on the Net and has morphed itself into a tabloid--on the lines of Sun, Daily Mirror etc of UK-- over the last decade.
Well, what a fall 4m grace for the Old Lady of Boribunder always trying 2 play catchup as a 2-bit hooker competing with more agile and relevant news media (internet, upcoming DNA & vernacular newspapers).
I guess the decline started way back in early 90s when Jain bandhu--Sameer & Vineet--took over the day-2-day running of BCCI (the parent holding co.) and changed the format as well as its content by bringing in MacCaulay 'putras' like Dileep Padgaonkar, Bachi Karkaria, Jug Suriyya, Kaveree Bamzai etc. thereby making the TOI a pale shadow of its former-self (esp. when stalwarts like Giri Lal Jain use to sit in the editors chair--I know @ that time TOI had a neutral stand vis-a-vis the Cong Govt at Center, with HT being the Congi mouthpiece and Indian Express under the gr8 leadership of Late Sh Ramnath Goenka & Arun Shourie constantly at loggerheads with the Congress.
Really, TOI has become a joke, I guess the brothers Jain visualize themselves as 'desi'Rupert Murdoch and just to keep the powers-be happy, know how 2 put a 'sickular' spin on every news item (esp. one that relates to Hinduism or Hindus).
Seems like the guys at TOI have stopped using their brains long ago and now virtually take orders 4m the reigning deity of 10 Janpath, so much so 4 the freedoam and independence of press in India--not even worth the paper they throw up their sickening thoughts on.
Sure, with the kinda revenue TOI is generating, the late patriarch Ashok Jain must sure be gurgling with pride in his grave--way 2 go boys, keep flying the TOI flag high--even if it means rubbing India (& its majority poplulation)'s nose in dust at every opportunity.
EkSh00nyaSh00nya, u were spot on. it is a common knowledge that dilip padgaonkar is a gandhi family puppet. also, the content of this toilet paper really took a dip for the worse somewhere around 1999-2000 when toi realized that the bulk of it's readership came from the 20-30 age bandwidth; which partially explains it's porn character,btw
also, the notion of hindutva and nationalism does not appeal to this audience which considers salman khan a hero.[puke ...]
so toi is doing business. pure business. the gen-next as they [we] like to be called is so shallow that it considers sonia gandhi's collection of saris to be a bigger news than indo-us nuclear deal.
toi is happy to loose people like me [who still believe in cultural nationalism] for this new bpo/it audience. in a way it is symbiosis. both are fit for each other.
i have had the misfortune of reading that paper for many years while i was in mumbai. there was no other option. 'IE' was the only other one, besides 'mid-day' which is run by a muslim organisation so as a rule is loaded with sickular crap.
i believe toi operates out of mumbai and dehli. not sure of dehli. but if people of a city reject an honest man like ram naik in favour of a clown like govinda, that city does not deserve anything better than toi.
oh and by the way your alias "EkSh00nyaSh00nya" reminds me of a marathi serial that used to come on mumbai doordarshan long back..
This 4 Kaunteya: >>by the way your alias "EkSh00nyaSh00nya" reminds me of a marathi serial...
Well Kaunteya ji, way back in the 80s, when soap operas started appearing on Doordarshan (the only channel which the lesser mortals had at that time) after the advent of Hum Log in '84, film-maker Kundan Shah had made a serial on the workings of Indian Police system (like the deaths in lock ups, third degree treatment et al) and he had submitted it 4 review with the Doordarshan (I think around '85-86), which on the orders of the then Rajeev Gandi Govt. had actually banned the serial and no one ever heard of it again--I have plagiarised :) or 2 b more diplomatic--inspired by :)--its title 4 my alias!
I dunno whether it was the same serial u r referring 2?
>> ...but if people of a city reject an honest man like ram naik in favour of a clown like govinda...
Well u know what they say: Ultimately in life u get what u deserve
I guess Mumbai manoos wanted a clown like Govinda 2 b their representative in the Parliament, so they chose him.
Not a bad choice indeed, IMHO, as he is joined other clowns.
The word 'Parliament' actually means an assembly of Owls (Uloo in Hindi), and Owl is considered 2 b a wise bird, but hey, look what we have in the name of Indian Parliament--a pack of jokers, a buch of rascals, who have no qualms in making merry @ the taxpayers hard earned money, so I guess Govinda landed in the right place.
Also, I heard or read somewhere that the voters in his consituency r very unhappy with him due 2 his non-performance both in 'Parliament' :) as well as back home, well 4 those 'unfortunate' souls I have just one piece of wisdom:
um...sorry but I wont equate Vijay Mallya with Indu Jain.
Mallya prints calenders but we have a choice NOT to buy them. And I dont know how 'porno' those are because I havent seen any.
Whereas TOI had/has a monopoly over readers in Mumbai atleast. Moreover it is a national newspaper.
Having semi-porn delivered to your breakfast table every morning, where you sit & read with your parents, children & grandparents is ethically very wrong. (And should be made illegal too.) What does Indu Jain mean by this ? Would she sit with her grandchildren persuing Playboy or something like that ?
"um...sorry but I wont equate Vijay Mallya with Indu Jain.
Mallya prints calenders but we have a choice NOT to buy them. And I dont know how 'porno' those are because I havent seen any.
Whereas TOI had/has a monopoly over readers in Mumbai atleast. Moreover it is a national newspaper.
Having semi-porn delivered to your breakfast table every morning, where you sit & read with your parents, children & grandparents is ethically very wrong. (And should be made illegal too.) What does Indu Jain mean by this ? Does she sit with her grandchildren persuing Playboy or something like that ? "
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Secularists won, says Times of India
About Indu Jain :
When I came to know that a woman & that too a supposedly old & 'spiritual' woman like her owns TOI, I was shocked considering the pornographic content of Bombay Times. (I am not sure if it is still so).
I see no difference between her & Playboy's Hugh Hefner.
TOI is actually referred 2 as 'Toilet Paper of India', 'Timepass of India' on the Net and has morphed itself into a tabloid--on the lines of Sun, Daily Mirror etc of UK--
over the last decade.
Well, what a fall 4m grace for the Old Lady of Boribunder always trying 2 play catchup as a 2-bit hooker competing with more agile and relevant news media (internet, upcoming DNA & vernacular newspapers).
I guess the decline started way back in early 90s when Jain bandhu--Sameer & Vineet--took over the day-2-day running of BCCI (the parent holding co.) and changed the format as well as its content by bringing in MacCaulay 'putras' like Dileep Padgaonkar, Bachi Karkaria, Jug Suriyya, Kaveree Bamzai etc. thereby making the TOI a pale shadow of its former-self (esp. when stalwarts like Giri Lal Jain use to sit in the editors chair--I know @ that time TOI had a neutral stand vis-a-vis the Cong Govt at Center, with HT being the Congi mouthpiece and Indian Express under the gr8 leadership of Late Sh Ramnath Goenka & Arun Shourie constantly at loggerheads with the Congress.
Really, TOI has become a joke, I guess the brothers Jain visualize themselves as 'desi'Rupert Murdoch and just to keep the powers-be happy, know how 2 put a 'sickular' spin on every news item (esp. one that relates to Hinduism or Hindus).
Seems like the guys at TOI have stopped using their brains long ago and now virtually take orders 4m the reigning deity of 10 Janpath, so much so 4 the freedoam and independence of press in India--not even worth the paper they throw up their sickening thoughts on.
Sure, with the kinda revenue TOI is generating, the late patriarch Ashok Jain must sure be gurgling with pride in his grave--way 2 go boys, keep flying the TOI flag high--even if it means rubbing India (& its majority poplulation)'s nose in dust at every opportunity.
EkSh00nyaSh00nya,
u were spot on. it is a common knowledge that dilip padgaonkar is a gandhi family puppet.
also, the content of this toilet paper really took a dip for the worse somewhere around 1999-2000 when toi realized that the bulk of it's readership came from the 20-30 age bandwidth; which partially explains it's porn character,btw
also, the notion of hindutva and nationalism does not appeal to this audience which considers salman khan a hero.[puke ...]
so toi is doing business. pure business. the gen-next as they [we] like to be called is so shallow that it considers sonia gandhi's collection of saris to be a bigger news than indo-us nuclear deal.
toi is happy to loose people like me [who still believe in cultural nationalism] for this new bpo/it audience. in a way it is symbiosis.
both are fit for each other.
i have had the misfortune of reading that paper for many years while i was in mumbai. there was no other option. 'IE' was the only other one, besides 'mid-day' which is run by a muslim organisation so as a rule is loaded with sickular crap.
i believe toi operates out of mumbai and dehli. not sure of dehli. but if people of a city reject an honest man like ram naik in favour of a clown like govinda, that city does not deserve anything better than toi.
oh and by the way your alias "EkSh00nyaSh00nya" reminds me of a marathi serial that used to come on mumbai doordarshan long back..
"saheb kuthley tumhi?"
This 4 Kaunteya:
>>by the way your alias "EkSh00nyaSh00nya" reminds me of a marathi serial...
Well Kaunteya ji, way back in the 80s, when soap operas started appearing on Doordarshan (the only channel which the lesser mortals had at that time) after the advent of Hum Log in '84, film-maker Kundan Shah had made a serial on the workings of Indian Police system (like the deaths in lock ups, third degree treatment et al) and he had submitted it 4 review with the Doordarshan (I think around '85-86), which on the orders of the then Rajeev Gandi Govt. had actually banned the serial and no one ever heard of it again--I have plagiarised :) or 2 b more diplomatic--inspired by :)--its title 4 my alias!
I dunno whether it was the same serial u r referring 2?
>> ...but if people of a city reject an honest man like ram naik in favour of a clown like govinda...
Well u know what they say:
Ultimately in life u get what u deserve
I guess Mumbai manoos wanted a clown like Govinda 2 b their representative in the Parliament, so they chose him.
Not a bad choice indeed, IMHO, as he is joined other clowns.
The word 'Parliament' actually means an assembly of Owls (Uloo in Hindi), and Owl is considered 2 b a wise bird, but hey, look what we have in the name of Indian Parliament--a pack of jokers, a buch of rascals, who have no qualms in making merry @ the taxpayers hard earned money, so I guess Govinda landed in the right place.
Also, I heard or read somewhere that the voters in his consituency r very unhappy with him due 2 his non-performance both in 'Parliament' :) as well as back home, well 4 those 'unfortunate' souls I have just one piece of wisdom:
U made ur bed, u lie in it!
:))
We loved ek shunya shunya : Shivaji Satam, right ? Serials were watchable those days.
um...sorry but I wont equate Vijay Mallya with Indu Jain.
Mallya prints calenders but we have a choice NOT to buy them. And I dont know how 'porno' those are because I havent seen any.
Whereas TOI had/has a monopoly over readers in Mumbai atleast. Moreover it is a national newspaper.
Having semi-porn delivered to your breakfast table every morning, where you sit & read with your parents, children & grandparents is ethically very wrong. (And should be made illegal too.) What does Indu Jain mean by this ? Would she sit with her grandchildren persuing Playboy or something like that ?
Not sure if my message got posted. Reposting :
"um...sorry but I wont equate Vijay Mallya with Indu Jain.
Mallya prints calenders but we have a choice NOT to buy them. And I dont know how 'porno' those are because I havent seen any.
Whereas TOI had/has a monopoly over readers in Mumbai atleast. Moreover it is a national newspaper.
Having semi-porn delivered to your breakfast table every morning, where you sit & read with your parents, children & grandparents is ethically very wrong. (And should be made illegal too.) What does Indu Jain mean by this ? Does she sit with her grandchildren persuing Playboy or something like that ? "
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