Archive for the 'TOI Bashing' Category

Guru Gone (Plagiarizing?)

Monday, June 11th, 2007

The Sunday Times of India, page 14 “Spotlight | Instant IQ”, a feature called “Guru Gyaan” has the heading “About a Boy” and talks about one Kurt Cobain. Everything fine except for the fact that it has been copied, verbatim, from Wikipedia’s page about, no prizes for guessing, Kurt Cobain.

Wikipedia’s page on Kurt Cobain here.

It’s […]

Slimes of India: Keeping everybody happy

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

So what’s the latest slime at The Times of India?

After being overly concerned about Sania Mirza’s sleeveless shirt and her skirt, could there be any better masala for The Times of India than the Chappell-Ganguly row!

I have always said- Good publications take a stand and stick to it.

But what does TOI do?

On wednesday, reports this […]

Why do we blog?

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

According to Wikipedia, often, the word “blog” is used to describe an “online diary or journal”. Dwelling on this fact, In this post, I have tried to find the answer to this: what makes people blog?
The most common form of blogging is maintaining an online journal. In fact, the whole idea of blogging revolves around […]