Nov 032010
It is that time of the year when I trudge down to Kalina and correct exam papers of would be journalists 
Some papers are true gems – where students show great insight and understanding of both India & the media.
Others are other kinds of Gems – the kind that make you laugh out loud in a staid university correction hall (it is almost punishment). The Gems this year :
- Newspapers are meant for people
- An obituary is an immediate write up when a person is dying
- English people are very particular about obituaries and don’t tend to sue about obituaries written about them
- Trend Stories are included to make people aware of trends – for eg. hot pants – but this is not the trend in villages due to the high level of illiteracy or less exposure to the media
- Coffee had secondary position in beverages as it is produced in down South India . But as South Indians are dominating at higher positions in most of the companies so their favorite beverages seem to become popular
- Questions to SRK – how come you are discreet these days away from Bollywood
- The one who writes a column is called a columnist
- News is anything that entertains the readers
- Her is no class or certain gender that readily reads news papers
- News feature is the written in the clear surface analysis over the particular event
- The above statement is situationally suitable – ie it cannot be stated as a fact since India with its 100′s or 1000′s of Newspapers – national, regional and semi local. so, it is extremely inappropriate to say newspapers today. But a majority of national dailies are taken and analysed then the concussion may reflect such an opinion
- Once Independence was attained, major newspapers functioned with a profit motive to divide states on the basis of language
No I haven’t made any of this up ….
Can we get our hands on Arnab, Rajdeep, Barkha and Sagarika’s test papers from their college days too?
Might be useful to compare
lol
especially Arnab’s – would be fun if he, in his student days, was leftist 
LOL! you keep doing this every year and I don’t know wether to feel ashamed or just laugh my head out! I wasn’t in Journalism though, but I’m sure the Advertising batch turns out gems as well.
pity i don’t get to read the advertising papers !
Thanks for sharing awesomeness!
my papers take twice as long to correct because i trawl for these gems
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you lead an interesting life.
i do too
today i look at more papers 
ROFL!
yes
tho’ when I am correcting the papers it doesn’t seem that funny 