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The dumb main stream media again

January 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

See this news item. Here is what the article claims.
Gourav Bhattacharya of Mumbai knows how to bell the CAT. He - like only 10-odd other management aspirants all over India - has scored a 100 percentile in the entrance examination to the Indian Institutes of Management.
I am not an expert in calculating percentiles, but I [...]

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The dumb main stream media

January 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Here is another stupid media headline. Here is what the headline says.
SACHIN SCORES ON THE FIELD, YUVI OFF IT—WITH DEEPIKA
This is supposed to be the largest mainstream daily for English news in India. I think we really need a new news paper.

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Pathetic Indian Media

April 30th, 2007 · No Comments

After the end of world cup I was trying to watch something useful on TV that is non-cricket, I came across a program on “Headlines Today” channel, where they were showing Kapil Dev and Sir Richard Hadlee playing a game of golf. On the same day Gaurav Ghei had won Bejing open golf tournament and [...]

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