Media head honchos are known to be dictatorial, sometimes bordering on lunacy. Naturally, those who fall foul of their dictums have to face their ire. We did a straw poll to find out who among the media big shots in the twin cities are the cruelest of them all.
The Hindi and Urdu Press get off lightly, because no one in the trade back answer the big bosses. Poor guys, they know that one kick and they would be out on the street without a job. The Telugu media is the next on the block and here both Girish Sanghi and Ramoji Rao share the honours, While Ramoji is known to be a man who likes his men to be servile, the Sanghi is known to slap and beat up his employees. Poor guys, you have no choice but to look for greener pastures. Hope Ramoji will be brought down from his ivory seat and the Sanghi man gets back to Hyderabad without an extension as an MP.
What do our trade union friends, especially the rabble-rousing, and chest-beating communists have to say about harassment employees face at work. Worse, Girish Sanghi has till date never paid his employees their salaries on time. Will the Labour Department do anything about it? Or will they continue to turn a blind eye to this naked violation of labour laws? Or, as some one said, Vaartha employees would be ignored as they are not labourers but slaves, like the rest of us?
Coming to the English Press the situation is a bit better. Don’t celebrate, that is just a bit. The Mahavinshnu on Mount Road is a shade better than a government office and works just like that! The employees troop in by 11 am and are not visible after 5 pm. Must be a great place to work! But the Kasturi family does keep a hawk’s eye on the happenings through their pointsman here. Our favourite punching bag JS discovered that, albeit a little late.
The Indian Express is on its last legs and there is nothing much to do when the print order is low. Nobody knows who the boss is and nobody wants to know. Which brings us to the big two. DC and Times.
The DC owners think that they ought to be running the State, while the Resident Editor thinks she should be running the country. Her boss, Akbar bhai obviously thinks that he will be the next American President. The DC employees feel that they ought to be the ones who have to wield the scepter, considering the harassment they undergo! Ask ex-advertising head of DC, Mr Vijaykumar about it.
The man who ran DC like his personal fiefdom was chased like a hound when DC owners realized that he made a neat pile from their loot. Sources say, the Reddy brothers used third degree methods to learn where the pot of loot was hidden. The God-fearing Baptist Vijay Kumar, fled to Malaysia à la Kosaraju of Krushi Bank, but has since made peace with the Reddy brothers.
On the other hand, the DC editor according to their employees is a paranoid personality who has a compulsive disorder. It is good DC is not a ten-storyed building or else, many would have jumped off the building after having been subject to mental harassment of the worst kind. Poor Pushpa Iyengar waited in the wings for long hoping some one would push the lady editor down the stairs. That did not happen and Pushpa ended up in Goa, discovering her DNA.
Which brings us to the worst guy in this business in Hyderabad. Voted as the most foul-mouthed, bad-tempered editor is Kingshuk Nag, the local editor of Times. His employees say working under him is worse than the Chinese water torture. Nag arrived in Hyderabad, courtesy Narendra Modi, who kicked him out of Ahmedabad after our old man went on a Modi-bashing crusade, post the riots. He thought he would become a Rajdeep Sardesai, but ended up as a big zero. The Times bosses were told by a furious Modi to pack the Nag in a bag and banish him from the State.
Since his arrival in Hyderabad, Times lost a number of credible journalists who in all probability would have taken the newspaper to greater heights. The short-tempered Nag is on the prowl looking for unsuspecting victims (read that as journalists). Profanities include, four-letter words that come like a torrent.
Last heard, the Human Rights Commission might be asked to suo moto take up cases of harassment against the old man. Surely Ram Karan would agree to that, for it was the verbal abuse of the worst kind that forced the back bone of Times edit to put in his papers.
The Nag is out to prove that he is the best editor Times had till date, but has ended up as a millstone around the neck of the Hyderabad edition. He writes a column in his name, the content for which is generated by junior stringers. Imagine Nag talking about Telengana and Andhra when he has no idea where Karimnagar or Kadapa is. The old man must be give an honourable VRS by the Jains and sent home to wherever he came from.
Which reminds us that due credit must be given even to the devil. Despite all that raving and ranting in our blog, JS should get the medal as the best editor Times had till date (ignoring the first two who had short stints). Maybe, the Jains need to bring him back, if they are to take the Times past DC.
The Hindi and Urdu Press get off lightly, because no one in the trade back answer the big bosses. Poor guys, they know that one kick and they would be out on the street without a job. The Telugu media is the next on the block and here both Girish Sanghi and Ramoji Rao share the honours, While Ramoji is known to be a man who likes his men to be servile, the Sanghi is known to slap and beat up his employees. Poor guys, you have no choice but to look for greener pastures. Hope Ramoji will be brought down from his ivory seat and the Sanghi man gets back to Hyderabad without an extension as an MP.
What do our trade union friends, especially the rabble-rousing, and chest-beating communists have to say about harassment employees face at work. Worse, Girish Sanghi has till date never paid his employees their salaries on time. Will the Labour Department do anything about it? Or will they continue to turn a blind eye to this naked violation of labour laws? Or, as some one said, Vaartha employees would be ignored as they are not labourers but slaves, like the rest of us?
Coming to the English Press the situation is a bit better. Don’t celebrate, that is just a bit. The Mahavinshnu on Mount Road is a shade better than a government office and works just like that! The employees troop in by 11 am and are not visible after 5 pm. Must be a great place to work! But the Kasturi family does keep a hawk’s eye on the happenings through their pointsman here. Our favourite punching bag JS discovered that, albeit a little late.
The Indian Express is on its last legs and there is nothing much to do when the print order is low. Nobody knows who the boss is and nobody wants to know. Which brings us to the big two. DC and Times.
The DC owners think that they ought to be running the State, while the Resident Editor thinks she should be running the country. Her boss, Akbar bhai obviously thinks that he will be the next American President. The DC employees feel that they ought to be the ones who have to wield the scepter, considering the harassment they undergo! Ask ex-advertising head of DC, Mr Vijaykumar about it.
The man who ran DC like his personal fiefdom was chased like a hound when DC owners realized that he made a neat pile from their loot. Sources say, the Reddy brothers used third degree methods to learn where the pot of loot was hidden. The God-fearing Baptist Vijay Kumar, fled to Malaysia à la Kosaraju of Krushi Bank, but has since made peace with the Reddy brothers.
On the other hand, the DC editor according to their employees is a paranoid personality who has a compulsive disorder. It is good DC is not a ten-storyed building or else, many would have jumped off the building after having been subject to mental harassment of the worst kind. Poor Pushpa Iyengar waited in the wings for long hoping some one would push the lady editor down the stairs. That did not happen and Pushpa ended up in Goa, discovering her DNA.
Which brings us to the worst guy in this business in Hyderabad. Voted as the most foul-mouthed, bad-tempered editor is Kingshuk Nag, the local editor of Times. His employees say working under him is worse than the Chinese water torture. Nag arrived in Hyderabad, courtesy Narendra Modi, who kicked him out of Ahmedabad after our old man went on a Modi-bashing crusade, post the riots. He thought he would become a Rajdeep Sardesai, but ended up as a big zero. The Times bosses were told by a furious Modi to pack the Nag in a bag and banish him from the State.
Since his arrival in Hyderabad, Times lost a number of credible journalists who in all probability would have taken the newspaper to greater heights. The short-tempered Nag is on the prowl looking for unsuspecting victims (read that as journalists). Profanities include, four-letter words that come like a torrent.
Last heard, the Human Rights Commission might be asked to suo moto take up cases of harassment against the old man. Surely Ram Karan would agree to that, for it was the verbal abuse of the worst kind that forced the back bone of Times edit to put in his papers.
The Nag is out to prove that he is the best editor Times had till date, but has ended up as a millstone around the neck of the Hyderabad edition. He writes a column in his name, the content for which is generated by junior stringers. Imagine Nag talking about Telengana and Andhra when he has no idea where Karimnagar or Kadapa is. The old man must be give an honourable VRS by the Jains and sent home to wherever he came from.
Which reminds us that due credit must be given even to the devil. Despite all that raving and ranting in our blog, JS should get the medal as the best editor Times had till date (ignoring the first two who had short stints). Maybe, the Jains need to bring him back, if they are to take the Times past DC.
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57 comments:
Man, This is awesome. Great writing. But I wonder why this blog is concentrating more on print media than newschannels.
You think that slavery doesn't exist in TV9 or ETV. It's open secret that TV9 'promote's lady journalists. Interestingly, one of its editor has written 'male'kolupu - an anti feminist parables.
Very good observations, Vikram and co.. Focus on IE's Vasu, an epitome of arrogance. Y dont you make a psychoanalysis man? Peep into the personal lives of DC and ToI editors
for more interesting inputs. You will come to know the reasons for their frustration. English journos in Andhra Pradesh are happy without the trio. This controversial Kareem of TV-9 is also a terror to some of its district reporters. Suman of Ee-TV is also in the habit of misbehaving with employees. An MBA and God fearing Kiron, Suman's brother, also nowadays learning the nuances in the art of ill-treating the employees, asset of the organization.
Ramesh Babu, the one time terror at News Today Private Limited of Eenadu used to harass the employees. See what happened to this Dora after being sacked by Ramoji? Such foul-mouthed, ill-tempered fellows will come across you on the streets one day. It's a matter of time, yaar.
I dont think your blog is right in singling out Kingshuk Nag alone, even though he has some weakness towards women colleagues in the office. A T Jayanthi and Vasu of Express, for that matter also ill-treat their colleagues and abuse them publicly.
Great stuff Vikram. You have blown the lid off what was an orchestrated image of the terror bosses.
Be it DCs lady editor, the IEs terror terrier or Ramoji Rao or the horrible Nag they are all the same. These guys curry with the government in power and make a fortune. A free land, a car as a gift, thick envelopes that come in every month from u know who... These are the perks that come with every editor's job.
By the way the family members of some of the television correspondents and page 3 editors are given free lunch and dinner coupons by GMs of five star hotels.
As Ismail Bhai of Angrez would say, Phukat ke Chai, phukat ke samose....
I wonder why do editors have hoiler than thou attitude, when they sit on the high chair. These days it is rare to spot men like Khuswant Singh, MV Kamath, or BG Varghese.
I guess the lack of human empathy have to do with the institutions themselves. The Hindu has solved the problem by ensuring that no outsider except those belonging to the Kasturi family make it as editors.
Indian Express, Hindustan Times and The Times of India were different in that the main editors were men of calibre. One can point to the last man Times had on the hot seat, Dilip Padgaonkar. But he too made his thoughts clear when in an interview to foriegn news channel he said that he had India's second most powerful job, one slot after the Prime Minister. That was his undoing.
What we now have are men of clay who made it to the corner room thanks too their boot licking capabalities. No wonder they treat their employees like dirt.
Great stuff man! Bravo! Bravo! Having been a former employee of The Mahavishnu on Mount Round, I have seen the moral degradation happening in front of my eyes. Its pathetic...A few old guys there are acting like sex-crazed rabbits. :)
C.G.
I wonder why the blog managers are targetting Kingshuk Nag. I think someone within TOI must be passing on wrong information to you. After his taking the editor's job, he set the things in right perspective at Hyderabad edition and eased out the redundants. You cant blame him for Ram Karan quitting TOI. RK must be having another agenda when he called it a day, and the world will know it within shortly.
C.G.
Express is down but not out
Kudos for undertaking comparison of bosses and newspapers. While we sadly note that `Express is on its last legs', we feel Express is down but not out yet. The local coverage is best and our people still competing with thier friends in other newspapers in giving thier best. The so-called leading papers in both Telugu and English source out their story ideas from Express.
And, circulation is an issue for the management, not for a journalist.
Thanks
Why don't you focus on PTI, Hyderabad - which is turning a premier newsagency into a big joke with its proverbial ways of treating assignments? Heard that now journalists are afraid of joining PTI in Hyd, thanks to the raw deal being given to new joiners. Is anybody listening?
Sure Kingshuk Nag set things in right perspective after he took over and some redundants were weeded out. But at the same time he feels Ghar Ki Murgi Dal Barabar. While not helping those who have been loyal to the organisation in getting good hike, gets people for higher salaries even if they are from rival DC and gives fancy names like editor special affairs. This hurts all say insiders.
Wow...Emi Blagu..Emi Blagu...Muddochestondi Pichi Kanna..
Rayande..he...
Chintha..ttha..Chitha..Chitha..Tha
My dear CG,
It is no one else but me from TOI. I know who u are. Let us not talk anything in terms of ‘wrong’ and ‘right’. Bcoz, there is no such thing like ‘good and bad’ and ‘right and wrong’ in TOI. What all that is there is dog-eat-dog culture. And, this fight is against that. We want those in the big seats to stand for what they are occupying such chairs. Failing, we know when to come out. When that time comes, we don’t bother whether Jains would wake up and make things straight or not. Certainly, we will chase away the black sheep. Bcoz, this is not Gujarat or Bengal, this is Andhra Pradesh.
Jindagi
From TOI.
Hey Dillagi! This applies to ur ATJ too.
In one of your blogs you mentioned that Express is on its last legs. That is true it is but still on its own legs. I have been following the content in TOI,Hindu and Express closely. i stopped reading DC as it does not have anything (new).
Express is way ahead in terms of coverage and the kind of stories it carries. TOI is next by I am yet to see a `big' story, which it will dig it out.
Coming to boss is right funda, one thing is clear- those who do not empathise with co-workers, will only be motivating them to look for greener patures.
If harrassment is everywhere, why not it take where it pays the most.
It is good that the blog is mirroring the images of the powers that be in the media. This helps those in the hot seat to correct themselves and extract the best work from the staff and not harass them and end up not getting any good stuff. The continued harassment in ToI and DC is emptying the bureaus, with the seniors running away for peace of mind. A similar harassment in IE by Vasu, who was once a stringer in Khammam district for Andhra Prabha, too is no exception and they should learn to be human beings and behave professionally.
Kingshuk Nag set things in right perspective? He weeded out some redundants? A tall claim. Seems Kinghshuk Bhajan Sangh is trying to put up a defense. Ye ta Kobi nahi hobe. Let me set the record straight. Before Kingshuk could wake up and understand what is going around in TOIHYD, the “redundants” (the way you look at them) left that stupid place. So, the question of Kingshuk weeding out would not arise. Even if that credit is granted to Nag, the result is: TOI carrying out stories with byname, or should we say, weekly round-ups of what all that is published in other newspapers etc., etc. Is it that redundants are replaced with reckless rats? making the TOI to last its face in the market? All said and done, one thing is sure, none of those redundants weeded out had ever got convicted by a court of law, for a story lifted from other newspaper? This is a classic example of who is redundant and who is not. Is it not a fact that such people are rewarded and still hanging to their seats. This way of advancing defense is nothing more than devils chanting the Bible.
Express is on its last legs...fully agreed...but when was the last time we all heard that...surely at least 10 years ago...but it still continues on its last legs...meaning the last legs of Express is longer than the entire body of other newspapers...it has survived a partition...and at least 80% journalists are former Expressites...true they sold Asian College of Journalism...but they are still the best college of Journalism...and in college there is bound to be some 'colour', which is true of not just Express but also of all newspapers and of course their bosses!!!
Redundants? Here is the answer for dat:
Why should any one tell u, go and see for your self, the back issues of TOI. Was it not competing with DC and other English newspapers in the state? Then, why those who got into TOI as scribes (during JS time) had to put in their papers, one after another? They may be redundants, for those who don't read their own TOI, so files the same items twice and thrice. Many of those redundents had to step out from TOI, bcoz most of these guys and gals donno the art of lifting ideas/items from other newspapers and websites. They were so poor in lift-irrigation journalism, telephone-journalism, broacher-journalism ( a host of other kinds of journalisms not known to them). And, they were also not experts in looting and laundering the company monies, by simply laying back in a centralised air conditioned TOI building on road no.3, for years, from morning to evening.
U wann me to prove it: Disappearance of Dateline Charminar in TOI.
Nowhere in the world it happens except in TOIHYD:
The lazy goats graze more grass than those on their legs.
Interesting conversation, i wish that the entirety was in the main blog and not restricted to the comments column.
There is too much ego in journalism as a profession and apart from individual egos even the institutions have egos. The thread seemed to have ruffled quite a few feathers.
I agree with one statement, that the bosses should accept that even the other colleagues are human and on par outside the newsroom.
Secondly the management paradigm is shifting from conflict to cooperation. Those in the hot seats need a lot of unlearning before the profession really gains.
As far as IE is concerned, i can personally say that it is the open and professional atmosphere that has encouraged journalists to return from software, management, academics, and of course even news agencies and other papers.
I would like to believe that this is evidence enough that Vasu is not all that much a villian as he is being branded as.
cheers and looking forward to a healthy ego-driven sparring on the professional front.
subbu
How Vasu could continue to be a Villian Yar? He saw the fate his boss met with, at the end of the day. So, it's quite normal that there comes a change in him. Any way its nice to hear that.
I am taking strong objection to the usage Kingshuk Bhajan Sangam and still wonder why all you people (including blog managers) ganged up against him. Ask any young journalist in TOI whether they ever faced any kind of harassment from Mr Nag before airing your comments on the blog. He may be wrong to some extent in using language, but you respect his age and experience. He got trained in the old school and some time may use that language, but surely, he lifted the image of TOI in Hyderabad from the one that was hardly cared by babus to politicians to the one now feared by many.
C.G.
Dear friends,
Having quit the media profession, and trying to settle into a new life of my own, I hooked on to the blog accidentally a week ago. Since then, I am following the site, and felt a little awkward to read some of the posts and comments. I personally feel that the site is crossing the Lakshmana Rekha when it comes to commenting on the personal lives of some senior journalists, and editors. While in profession, I was told that I must obtain the comments of the person on whom I am carrying a negative story. But nowhere the blog managers seems to be following this basic principle of journalism, and jurisprudence. I wonder what defence Mr Vikram will have if one of the Editors against whom he used choicest words files a criminal case or a law suit?
The idea of having a blog for mediapersons in Hyderabad/Andhra Pradesh is very good, but it should end up as a new means to some disgruntled elements to sling mud on those who they do not like or have some personal grudge or vendetta.
I hope Mr Vikram will understand this finer aspect of journalism and media ethics and use the blog to provide a better content and information to the mediapersonnel working here, than allowing them to have some vicarious pleasure by reading the content (I am sure many of the mainstream journalists would not dare to read your site in their work stations). I personally feel there was no need for the blog to name who tops the list of cruel bosses, for the media history of Hyderabad has chronicled enough of such people and also the fate they met with.
Sunil Reddy
If you are the same person who I think you are, then please don't sound like Jesus Christ. We know you are an ex TOI hack and you must be desperately trying to be in the good books of the Times management (trying to get back there ???)
Do you think if Vikram and Co had gone to the editors mentioned and asked for their side of the story, the editors would open their heart out. Don't scare people with words like a law suit. Bloggers of the world will strip these people down to their skin oif they dare do this.
The Times group tried this after their MD was named in a (true) happening. They landed on the guy in Mumbai who running the blog,Pradyuman Maheshwari got him a job as the editor of Maharashtra Herald and paid him a neat pile of cash to keep his mouth shut. The site http://mediaah.blogspot.com was closed forever.
That will never happen to us in Andhra Pradesh. We are not darpoks who will run away. We will stand up and fight, a la Alluri Seeta Rama Raju.
Dear Mr Sunil Reddy
I am a bit surprised that u felt awkward reading some of the blogs...why is it?...are u already too detached from the media or is the new profession so noble...I know it and u will agree... when you were a journalist...and of course not only you...most of the journalists go to any extent to get a story...and then as you claim both sides of story or the negative side doesn't get equal emphasis...u understand what i mean...five quotes in favour and one against...you call it journalism of jurisprudence...as a reporter you will agree that many times the lakshman rekhas are crossed to get a good story...and not necessarily in public interest or in the greater interest of journalism or the paper...the actual interest lies in getting a good byline and contributing more number of stories...
now let us come to criminal case and law suits...don't you think that it's time a few cans of journalism are opened... as a journalist you know there are enough worms...
And who is disgruntled?...people who leave the media because of the all the saintly things that happen in media? ...your idea of a good and noble site on journalism is well taken...but the idea of a blog is not nobleness, it's a forum for everyone to present their views, without the bias of a reporter and the cuts of an editor...this is what right to expression is in its truest form...so more of your ethical comments are welcome...
Finally, a few words for Mr Vikram...please continue to bring out the dark secrets of the fair journalists...and with more vengeance...and expand your reach...and may be you can consider a tie up with Mr Reddy...after all even TOI and HT are tying up!!!
Hi CG,
“Fools, put some clay in your brains than filling it with sand. So dat something will grow in it” - These are blessings, we got from those men and women of old school (our teachers) and they are our driving force today. So, we know how to respect age and experience. Don’t put your words in my mouth. Secondly, show me, a single word that I directed towards Nag? Or defaming him? As a matter of fact, it was you who told us that “he may be wrong in using language, but you respect his age and experience” and thus ignore that factor in him. It was you who put Nag in the dock, not me. U took objection to the usage of Bhajan Sangam. Fine, what you do, when you want to project the problem of a common man (Of RK Laxman, and here, junior scribes) through your item, and make their voice heard either by babus, Naidu or YS to take note of it? You add some mirchi masala (as far as it would not deface the facts), right? I did the same. Even Kingshuk does it, in his columns. Third, you want us to ask any young scribe about harassment? Here it goes: “Nakaral…Chestunnava…Thamasha…Chestunnava…Raa...Va?” Don’t think this a conversation between those gals standing for endless hours (to fill their bellies) on tank bund, in the evenings and their prospective customers. This is how editor of one of Ur TOI bureaus talks with the junior scribes. Tell us, what is this? Name it if you can? Du want a proof for it: go and ask ur hr department what was the reason for a junior scribe to resign from TOI? It was very much in their knowledge. Is it not the duty of Nag to take action against such irrational people? Can u deny this fact?
- Those that praise and defend only the king never bother about the welfare of the kingdom. On the other, those who praise and defend the kingdom, always stand for the welfare and safety of the King.
Fine, Sunil. But, the moment someone enters in media, you are forced to unlearn journalism, and stop admiring all those role-models of the bygone days. So, principles of journalism are gone to winds. Jurisprudence is something that is unheard of these days. This blog is just a reflection one angle of emerging trends of dissatisfaction. Perhaps, some are speaking in pain and bleeding this makes one knows no law.
Rewarded for getting convicted by a court of law? Strange man!
If the aim of newspaper is to create fear then there is something wrong with it. Newspapers are meant to protect the freedom, well being of the citizens and democracy.
Strange claim. Today, hardly any one takes TOI and DC seriously. Because, most of the stories are like rolling out veg or non-veg. spreads, to get that eluding big promotions. They show no concern about any important issue bothering this state and her people. Forget about the state, both DC and TOI are measurable failures even in giving good coverage of Hyderabad. Perhaps, this reflects walking out of scribes with professional commitment from these two organizations.
If some one thinks that we are here and ganged against some one, it’s a self-projection. We talk much about ATJ. But, it shall not stop us admiring her as she works like a donkey, without even taking leave for years. And, runs like a stringer with unnerved enthusiasm, to cover the item (ATJ in action while covering Sonia’s election campaign in Bellary). What all that we are saying is: Be rational, and instead seeing the world of journalism from your point of you alone, try and see as it exists in reality and show some concern for issues and problems of people as editors. Try not to adopt and inherit that arrogant model of imperial arrogance of ‘Ruler and the Ruled’. Is it wrong and a sin?
Hey Ram!! Y not write something about chota miyas too. They r the ones who make life a hell for ordinary subs & reporters. A ramoji rao doesn't breathe down a sub's neck every day. Vikram u r concentrating too much on the biggies. there r some disgusting characters around. for ex: Gaddem Narasimha Rao of ETV ( he was kicked out recently).
Can we hear an update from TOI's C.G to the reply given to her/his comment?
Yes. it's correctly said about ATJ. She really works hard. But, the whole problem with her is that foul mouth and short tempered attitude.
Dillagi
Who is that TOI bureau editor, using such a foul language in conversations with scribes, Yar. How the TOI could tolerate the presence of such brats? The word Editor, has to keep its head down in shame, when such people are occupying that chair.
kudos to sunil reddy. thought provoking thoughts. he must be trying to get back to TOI
Wow,
This is a spicy site!!
Some of my NRI friends have a great opinion about Indian Press and journalists..
Now-a-days I am sending these posts to my friends.. :-)
Though I am not in the profession, I know several of your colleagues and could get these conversations decoded..
Sunil, getting back into TOI! Again, difficult proposition. This poor mortal worked under 'dat great guy', for so long. But, failed to learn how get “voluturise”* (meaning, the process of becoming such a one, to gain or make his own living at the cost of others) himself. That’s why he is out from the TOI. Sunil, better be happy with what Ur doing now and move ahead.
Hey Ram! Don’t cry foul, saying that there are no such words like “Voluturise”, “Voluturisation” and “Voluturising” in English languge. Becoz, if no one create words, where they will come from? Don’t worry we will ask Bloggers Internationale, to circulate and give currency to their usage. Journos, be prepared to see in future an item “ Strange words in circulation gains ground and land for review to get included in Oxford dictionary” from some dateline- Boston, Huston, London, LA or something like dat.
dear ananymous friend
thanks for your advice and concern, but would like to tell you all that I have no intention to go back to the media profession and not certainly the TOI. But I remain stand for my first comment that we should not cross that Lakshmana Rekha in commenting on the personal lives of individuals, even though they may be bureau chiefs or editors. Or else, those willing to comment should come out openly.
What do you expect of a newspaper which is headed by a baldy (full of crookish ideas), a political editor (fantastic feature writer.....ask ATJ, if I am wrong) and a city editor (convicted by the lower court for mischievous writing - defamation).
The problem with the management is that it lends an ear only to the department heads and these cronies take advantage of it to fix anyone, based on the inputs gathered by their pampered agents (read reporters/sub-editors).
Coming to the aspect of dwindling quality of the newspaper, the bosses are busy implementing the divide and rule policy by pampering a few and fleecing the majority. The thumb rule is to keep everyone unsettled and laugh their heart out as the tamasha unfolds for the day.
Seems this CG is vanished and not seen around these days anywhere near the blog. Why is it so?
Interesting man! This ganesh and CG… are they defending him ….or...taking a dig at him…..... They stripped and nailed the nag in the blog….proving a point for blogmanagers…on his weakness and foul mouth….I wonder… whether they too are DC moles in TOI.
The role of defense-
Yesterday- Ram is great, so defend him.
Today- Respect Nag, for he is aged and experienced.
Tomorrow- Who?
Becareful Nag, they are preparing ground to sea you off.
Come on guys,
What the CG and Ganesh did is nothing. That city editor straight away dug a big ditch of good depth, beneath the feet of Nag. I will tell you all soooooon, what it is like. You will see how - back stab to climb the top - is an order of the day here. It is that vulture who is enjoying, heart fully laughing out, at every one in TOIHYD.
Hey all,
why have you so bothered about me? Hey Dillagi, why r u so perturbed about my gender and how can u conclude that I am a female? It is a fact that I have defended Mr Nag, and wanted all u to respect his age and experience. What is wrong in it. But surely, I never defended Mr Nag and was open in criticising him also. and also why all u ganged up against Sushil Rao (TOI city editor). He has already filed an appeal in the High Court against the lower court order which convicted him in Rachal Chatterjjee case. How can u criticising when the case is sub-judice.
C.G.
ok.. here's the final word.. CG is a female.. she works in TOIs news desk.. horrible sub-editor... made a lot of bloomers when she handled page 1 a few times... she is always in the editor's room.. has no moral right to talk abt Nag considering they are close pals..
Aryan
Can someone enlighten us on the case which was filed by Rachel Chaterjee agianst Sushil Rao. What was the case about ?
Hey CG,
Taking freedom to touch the mid-lines…. of your paragraph, I try to answer your questions.
First: It is a fact that you have defended. But, you are also sure that “I never defended Mr. Nag and was open in criticizing him.” Ru sure of (at least) the facts, with which u wanted to defend Nag? Go...go and do your home-work properly, then you can think of defending Nag.
Second: People are bothered about what u have said but not about u. If you think every one is bothered about u, better get out of such delusion. Ok.
Third: Taking a leaf from the anonymous friend, who gave a reply to Ur comment, posted earlier- Don’t put your things in my mouth. Show me where did I ask about your gender? Whether Ur a male, female or an email? What all that matters is what you have said. Also, Tell me, where I have concluded that Ur a female? If you are so interested to reveal Ur gender to the world that is your head ache. Who cares, what Ur gygot is.
Fourth: This blog is created by the journalists, for the journalists and to the journalists, to talk and express the issues concerning them and worrying them. You came here and said, “He lifted the image of TOI”, “eased out redundants”, “now many are feared of TOI”, “ask any young journalists about harassment”. Answers were given to all of your points, sometimes giving proofs too. But, u don’t touch even one of them. You are an empty shell, luv to make much noise, and have no guts to talk/respond, to the issues raised by u. Talking and writing rot is fine in TOI/Times House, better confine urself to it.
I donno completely anything about this Susil other than what people in the blog say he is an ill to the times.
Dillagi
From DC
This is a rather interesting site. I used to wonder what the hell happened to TOI's INTERNATIONAL pages. Just check them out people. For a regular reader like me, they are truly DISGUSTING. POOR CONTENT, SAD LANGUAGE.Now I understand what is the problem. If a bunch of throughly FRUSTRATED people who only have time to project their bosses and colleagues in a bad light work in such an organisation, what can a reader like me expect ? The state of affairs is really pathetic.
Everyone seems to be talking about everyone in TOI. No one seems to speak about those who were not allowed to come up in TOI as they belong to old school of journalism and are not willing to lick their bosses. They believe in defending the team as true team leaders. Hence they are discriminated against in promotions, increments and even when they should have been promoted as editors of bureau which is the new fad in newspapers, they have not been favoured by the bosses. But as someone rightly pointed out those who no how to be an important member of bhajan samaj whether it be sunil reddy or Sushil Rao of former political editor Sridhar Rao always curried favours whether it be Jyotirmaya Sharma or Nag. Sunil who has turned preacher today had stepped over many more worthy people. Where was lakshman Rekha then.
Ya CG is a female. Well TOI has females who are good at dancing as well lol.
My dear CG,
It seems u donno the implications, scope of what constitute a sub-judice. Anyway, we both are working in TOI, so let me give you with an example of what constitute a sub-judice:
Times of India, September 27, 2006. Page -4
The hearing is still on in the court of law, but your head line says:
Monica may get away with lighter rap (this amounts to pre judging the process or trail), on what basis, our great reporter says:
Hyderabad: When Monica Bedi walked out of the special court for CBI cases in Nampally Criminal Courts Complex on Tuesday evening, she seemed cheerful. Not surprising, considering that developments in the court in the day were indeed heartening for her.
The CBI prosecutor for the first time told the court that the agency was mainly pressing charges of cheating and conspiracy against her and not so much for violation of the Passport Act.
THIS SEEMED AN ADMISSION OF FAILURE ON THE PART OF THE CBI IN PROVING THE CASE, BECAUSE MONICA HAD BEEN BOOKED FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE PASSPORT ACT. (Capitals mine).
Result:
Times of India, September 30, 2006.
“In layman’s language, Monica was charged of getting a forged passport made from Kurnool in the name of Sana Kamal Malik in August 2001 and using this passport to whiz out of the country. Monica’s plea before the court was that the passport application form did not have her handwriting and signature. Nor was the passport received by her. So how could she be guilty, was the former Bollywood star’s contention? But, the court did not buy this line, NOT SURPRISING BECAUSE THE PASSPORT WAS FOUND ON HER PERSON AND SHE HAD USED IT TO TRAVEL (Capitals mine).
Now, u tell us, who made comments and interfered in the process of a prosecution or trail, that falls within the ambit of the definition of sub-judice?
Jindagi (TOI)
No other post on this blog could attract this many comments? This stands as a star post on this blog, I have seen till date.
I think C.G's correct name is Chamcha Giri and you find such C.G.s in every office, including TOI.
Wake up...Wake those foolish Jains in Mumbai and Delhi, having their brains in their souls, for their house in hyderabad is on fire.
Yes...if some one is good at dancing let them dance. Don't get in P.lives of individulas with journalistic arrogance. We are nobody to judge the lives of any one and we are not competent to do that. What all that we are (even while criticising) concerned is of the actions of some individuals and how it has negative impact on the journalistic community and an organisation. If you point of that way, I can come up with hopeless stories from DC too.
Dillagi from DC
Hey guys, have u seen...even after Monica Body left to M.P, this guy is still hangs on to the walls of Chanchalguda and Cherlapalli jails. Perhaps, if at all the HC confirms the lower court order, he is expecting her to come back and to have a good pal there. Too smart guy (Abu Salem, ru listening, our bunny boy is trying to be colse with ur slimmy...).
hey reader, ur intl. pages comes from Mumai or delhi. u better talk to our executve editor, neither nag or we r responsible for it.
This blog has become too TOI- centric. I am sure more interesting things are happening in other media houses too. Why arent others talking ? Is ATJ monitoring this space too?
City Editor? dat guy is no good even to be a gally editor ( ask JS, if am wrong).
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