The kind of stuff that makes you choke over your breakfast. This from the world’s most read English Language Newspaper.
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Mar 222010
The world’s largest advertising carrier in today’s Chennai edition :
To copy editors at ToI, repeat slowly
IIT – Indian Institute of Technology – elite, academic institutes that
offer..bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, management and other disciplines. The IITs are also known for world-class research.
ITI – Industrial Training Institutes, are
training institutes which provide training in technical field and constituted under Ministry of Labour, Union Governament of India. Normally a person who has passed 10 standard (SSLC) is eligible for admission to ITI. The objective of opening of ITI is provide technical manpower to industries. These persons are trained in basic skills required to do jobs of say operator or a craftsman
and use common sense, there is no point giving free bus passes to IIT students – there are too few of them to make a difference electorally. On the other hand ITI’s are more numerous, have a lot more students who may look kindly on the State for ‘free’ bus travel !
As I have said earlier on this blog, the ToI seems to have got rid of most of its copy team, and replaced it with the edit function on a word processor or a DTP software !!
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Jan 142010
Once again my eye chances upon something that induces your my jaw to hit the floor and come back up in very, very slow motion. The world’s largest selling English language daily in association with the owner of an IPL team bring you this :
as my biz partner SR would point out “paidayashi aise the, ki halaat ne aapko aise banaya”.
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Jan 052010
From the ToI – sometime last year
When Sonia Gandhi hid her tears and despair behind those famous dark glasses and sat still like a nun at prayer, the embalmed body of her husband Rajiv Gandhi on a hot May afternoon of 1991, few would have imagined she would one day become one of the most powerful people on earth
am I mistaken or wasn’t Rajiv Gandhi blown to bits by a suicide bomber – and there was very little left to embalm
I wonder if a nice turn of phrase – which belongs more in a medieval romance than a national newspaper :
“hid her tears and despair behind those famous dark glasses and sat still like a nun at prayer”
justifies distorting reality !
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Oct 022009
rather boring three days. was at holy spirit for death by boredom and a zillion and one tests. caught up on reading and actually read the newspapers instead of getting a RSS feed. Almost died of a heart attack when i saw this :
i can’t make up stuff like this 
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Sep 292009
Dictionary.com has around 76 known usages of the word cast.
I am reproducing 6 of those here, do check out the rest – they too are illuminating !
–verb (used with object)
1. to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
2. to throw off or away: He cast the advertisement in the wastebasket.
3. to direct (the eye, a glance, etc.), esp. in a cursory manner: She cast her eyes down the page.
4. to cause to fall upon something or in a certain direction; send forth: to cast a soft light; to cast a spell; to cast doubts.
5. to draw (lots), as in telling fortunes.
6. Angling.
a. to throw out (a fishing line, net, bait, etc.): The fisherman cast his line.
b. to fish in (a stream, an area, etc.): He has often cast this brook.
It has 6 different uses of the word caste :
1. Sociology.
a. an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups.
b. any rigid system of social distinctions.
2. Hinduism. any of the social divisions into which Hindu society is traditionally divided, each caste having its own privileges and limitations, transferred by inheritance from one generation to the next; jati. Compare class (def. 13).
3. any class or group of society sharing common cultural features: low caste; high caste.
4. social position conferred upon one by a caste system: to lose caste.
5. Entomology. one of the distinct forms among polymorphous social insects, performing a specialized function in the colony, as a queen, worker or soldier.
–adjective
6. of, pertaining to, or characterized by caste: a caste society; a caste system; a caste structure.
Times of India – the world’s leading English Language newspaper – as a part of its austerity drive, has gotten rid of its dictionaries as raddi, and its copy editors have been deputed to make chai -as a part of their head count rationalisation measures. All very commendable, and possibly explains this story :
@vijaysankaran tweeted on, well, twitter
@calamur give toi a break:-)..they think of cast all the time. Diol bole cast on set, wanted star cast, katrina cast with srk, ….:-)
I could say a 100 things or more – but i guess a picture speaks more than words
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Jul 042008
Parallel Universes — a concept in science fiction, where realities slightly differing from our own exist. For example, there may be a universe where Hitler won or one in which India remained undivided. Usually, the wall between the universes cannot be breached.
But, the world’s largest selling English language quality broadstreet has another feather in its cap. It is publishing in a world where Madoona and Guy Ritchie are getting a divorce, on the 4th of July,
Despite enjoying a romantic dinner date with Guy Ritchie, Madonna has indicated that she still wants a divorce – by turning down her hubby’s begging offer to move to New York.
and, then there is a universe where Guy Ritchie and Madonna live happily ever after, on the 4th of July
Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie have hit out at rumours that their wedding is about to collapse, with a romantic dinner date together in New York.
Unfortunately, due to a glitch in the space time continuum, they both landed not only in the same universe – but also in the same google reader account….
Either that or this is the new definition of balanced journalism
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