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What Nagaland doesn't need is a Neroesque politician
The tragedy of the Naga political movement has been the annihilation of Nagas by Nagas themselves.
The Nagas have remained cleaved along various schools of thought. Between radicals and moderates (from the killing of Theyieu Sakhrie to that of Kaito Sema) among the insurrectionists themselves. Also between those underground and those overground (from the killing of Imkongliba Ao to that of the Kevichusa brothers).
And somewhere complicating all these delicate equations and rendering all calculations awry are the perennial inter-tribe schisms. Exploiting all these to the hilt are politicians, giving all internecine killings a tribal hue. The blight continues.
What's in Vogue, and what's not
Some people haven’t the faintest clue as to how they should go around making opulent style statements. Especially, if done with an inordinate amount of insensitivity and tastelessness. Worse still, if they have the nerve to defend it as callously.
So when Vogue India carried a 16-page photo shoot of decidedly-not-rich people strutting $10,000 Hermès Birkin bags, $5,000 Burberry umbrellas, or $100 Fendi bibs, the magazine was asking for some censure. This came in the form of three articles – in the New York Times, the Telegraph, and the Independent. The thread was duly picked up by a number of blogs. And now the story is all over town.
And as to why none of the Indian news media establishments reacted to the Vogue India shoot, your guess would be as good as mine.
Zee News and TOI correspondents file identical copies
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If you have ever worked as a reporter, you would know that no two reporters can use the same language to describe the same set of events. Something like fingerprints, you know.
But the Zee News and Times of India correspondents who filed the story on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking the Tamil Nadu Speaker's sanction to prosecute J Jayalalithaa have somehow managed to do the impossible.
Here's the Zee News story proudly slugged "Bureau report":
New Delhi, June 26: The CBI has sought sanction from the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker to prosecute AIADMK supremo and former state Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in a 10-year-old case pertaining to Rs 2-crore gifts allegedly received by her from those she later favoured.
Correction Times
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So here it is, after all -- a correction from the New York Times on its description of the Press Trust of India.
Corrections: For the Record
Two articles on October 11 about the earthquake that struck India and Pakistan on October 8 misstated the ownership of the Press Trust of India, a main source of initial information on casualties and damage. (The error also occurred in unrelated articles on April 18, and May 26.) The news agency is a nonprofit cooperative owned by India's newspapers, not state-owned or state-run.
Good.
Jesus! NYT thinks PTI is state-run!!!!
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The New York Times has been diligently carrying stories on the earthquake that are being churned out by its zealous correspondents stationed in India and Pakistan. In its October 11, 2005 edition, NYT had a poignant story: An Earthquake's Pain Unites Two Rivals, for the Moment. All fine, but somewhere in Somini Sengupta's copy was a mention about the Indian news agency Press Trust of India being "state-run."
Trade and tourism has inched up in recent years. Transportation links have been extended, including a bus service begun with great fanfare last April, allowing people to travel between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad for the first time in a half-century. (The service was indefinitely postponed Monday because of quake damage, the state-run Press Trust of India reported.)