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 …. 🙂