Tuesday, March 18, 2008

b raman: People's Daily of Chennai

mar 18th, 2008

i have often said that it would be most salutary if a neutron bomb were dropped on JNU. the buildings can be salvaged if the vile occupants can be removed. similarly, another neutron bomb should be dropped on the 'hindu' newspaper, china's national newspaper, which survives on large dollops of chinese cash. in particular, frontline, china's national magazine, has a readership of about 1,000, mostly in JNU, yet it survives with its mass of turgid communist prose, thanks to chinese largesse.

now that the deccan herald and the ToI are in chennai (or so i have been led to believe), i do hope people will hold rallies in the street where they ceremoniously burn their 'hindu' subscription cards. the chinese will soon get tired of not being able to reach the gullible masses, and the carcass of the beast will be available for sale for a song. n. ram would long since have repaired to a comfortable retirement in beijing (like kim philby et al took off to the soviet union in a different era).

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Girish


 
All of us, who were born and brought up in Chennai, grew up on the mother's milk of this daily. Whatever little we achieved in our life and career was due to what we imbibed from its columns. What a great family it was! What great names it had in its staff in its headquarters and in its field offices!
 
How cruel to see this daily with which I grew up reduced to its present status! Its founding fathers and the giants who served in it must be shedding tears in heavens over the way their child has been reduced to being the "People's Daily" of Chennai.
 
(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi.)
Posted by B.RAMAN
 


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