Comments on: “The mood right now is, Indiaah!”

By: Sahej

Sahej — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:20:26 +0000

outlook is good, but sometimes its plodding. they’re like Rod Blogajevich on the Daily Show

By: Rishi

Rishi — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:07:28 +0000

For pop-ups, long live Adblock and Firefox. But crazy when have to do it on a news site.

By: NPS

NPS — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:49:03 +0000

Outlook is a good magazine. Re: the paper edition of TOI, I have no clue. My impression is that is at least with the “fat, content and settled” generation in B’lore—the only demographic whose paper reading habits I know—TOI has never been very popular. But yes, the paper version is trashy, not as bad as the online one. You can’t possibly do popups in print, can you?

By: A million mutinies

A million mutinies — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:09:39 +0000

What do you guys think of Outlook?

And is the paper edition of TOI as ‘tabloidy’ as their online edition? I thought the online edition was like this just because their consumer base comprised primarily of bored and horny desi engineers

By: Suhail Kazi

Suhail Kazi — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:09:13 +0000

BB: I didn’t know you won NSJ award, I missed it if you’ve already mentioned it earlier. By the way can you send me an email, I have some resources reg’g yr filmmaking aspirations(would be offtopic here). Good luck on beating Sanjay Gooopta. oh and btw, my REM sleep (30 hrs straight) beats the living daylights out of your REM

dhaavak, I empathise with you. But gotta live with what’s available. Also, it’s been just a year since they’ve launched. So I guess they just don’t have that kind of readership yet to start dead-tree versions in phoren lands.

On that point, what all print versions of Indian newspapers/magz are available here in US?

By: Sahej

Sahej — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:02:21 +0000

yeah Frontline is cool. Little Magazine is cool, but expensive. India Today is decent, Time is not that bad a paper. I heard Economic and Political Weekly is pretty good. Have checked it out a few times. Also Stardust will give you a really in-depth appreciation of the political situation at any given moment

By: dhaavak

dhaavak — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:06:51 +0000

here's what i'm talking about folks. The link is to an article on Eravikulam national park in Kerala. Lovely pictures, in-depth discussion. This is the kind of stuff that first attracted me to the Frontline magazine. Kush, I've tried India Today - but it just seemed like an Indian version of Time, not my top read. Suhail I will check out Tehelka although my preference is a paper magazine - i am getting tendinitis or some problem in my wrist from all the computer work and my index finger is hurting where i keep pressing the mouse-nub - and paper would be more wholesome.

By: Ritam

Ritam — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:34:47 +0000

Honestly, the online edition of TOI can have you calling out for the smelling salts.

By: DesiDancer

DesiDancer — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:50:11 +0000

And he says ‘Gooopta’. What a dork.

seriously cringeworthy.

siddartha– big ups for the Black Sheep tie in. But is “Indiaaaaaahhh!” a tribute to Howard Dean’s scream heard round the world?

By: chick pea

chick pea — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:12:27 +0000

bong breaker: i’m with you on the gupta bit.. but i’m in competition with you for his job as cnn med correspondent… it’s funny since he’s still considered as facutly in the dept of neurosurgery at emory… i ask the other neurosurgeons about him, and they just laugh.. haha.. how you can be 100% good at being a writer, correspondent, and a neurosurgeon on faculty um… doesn’t really add up to be quite honest..dunno.. i laugh when i see him on sunday morning on his 30 min health show… but at least he’s not hard on the eyes