the ToI – the world’s largest selling English paper – puts out a supplement where a South Indian – to be precise superstar Rajnikant – is referred to as a Southie. What next? a Muslim referred to as a Mossie, a North Indian as a bhaaiya, a Gujarati as a Gujju, a Mizo referred to as a Chinky, a bengali as a Bong, a Marwari a Maddu ? Tut, Tut.. ToI .. one really expected better from you. Maybe, it is time to let you on to a secrert. The editor is not a function on the word processor or DTP software. It is a person who knows and understands language and structure — and ensures that work put out by people like Subhash K Jha is cleaned up.
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Harini Calamur's Writings
It is good that you pointed out the mistake made by TOI reporter. We have to remember that Subhash K. Jha is simply pointing out what many guys in our country are still ignorant about. I feel that he is innocent but being a reporter of one of the largest English newspapers in the world, he should be more sensitive to such thing and a journalist should bind the countrymen with their reports not the other way..
Doesn’t surprise me. TOI, especially the supplement, has been trodding the drainward path for quite some time now. I did see “bong” in Delhi Times last week.