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Getting used to the Times

During my school days we used to subscribe to the Indian Express.My dad who had spent some time in Mumbai made it perfectly clear, once the Times is printed in Pune, we are going to take it. It hardly made any difference to me then , as all I was interested in was Cricket and related news . I was assured that the Times had better coverage of cricket. Nothing much has changed since I first subscribed to the Times.

The sports section of the main paper rocks. So do the other parts of the paper on most days.The supplement the Pune "Slimes" as I prefer to put it ,is very sad the less said about it the better. If me, a person born and brought up in Pune, doesn't find anything that concerns me in the paper, well then frankly there's something very wrong with the paper.Read the blog , Cruel Waste of Forests   and some of the comments in the earlier posts.

The one thing that bugs me the most is that the TOI always uses it's paper to advertise other entities of the Times Group. Be it Filmfare, Femina Miss India. The most recent  case was during the launch of the Times Now channel, they used to carry interviews with their anchors etc. All this is simply pushed on the reader. They simply have their finger in every pie, so the paper always has some pretty biased views.

Recently before the release of the movie Being Cyrus, for almost everyday in the week, they had something or the other about the movie. in the main paper or PT. It seems that the movie was produced or marketed by the Times Group!!! Simply another case of using it's space for adverts.

The thing is as long as the Sports coverage of the Times is good, I will keep buying the paper :-) . Pune Newsline is better that PT, but the main edition of the Express doesn't quite compare with the TOI main edition. An ideal combo would be TOI main edition+ Pune Newsline.  Sakal captures the essence of Pune quite brilliantly. Want to read the Herald. Would love hear some opinions of it.

Justice at last?

Finally Salman Khan was sentenced this week. The reactions of the people published in the media, though expected were really ludicrous. One guy actually said something like, Salman is great guy with heart of gold, yada yada..... Now I wonder if this really has anything to do with the case. :-) Another view point was Jessical Lal's murderer got away free, but here u are arresting Salman. The entire handling of the Lal murder case was sad. But surely this does not mean that everytime anyone is sentenced as guilty u simply say "arre Jessica lal's murederer got away, my violation is minor to that??Y cant i be pardoned" That fact remains justice was not meted out in that case, but why object if and when justice has been done? Another popular notion is Salman is being targeted. Well as for that,there can't be any smoke without fire. This is the same man who ran over 4 people,not with his feet but with his car. This is the same guy who was absent in the earlier hearings for the hunting case.Once the reason given was that he had some hair treatment to do, that y he could not show up!!!! Unbeleivable! Celebrities are mistreated? Well the fact remains they are always under a microscope. That places more responsibiltiy on their shoulders. As a celeb ,if u do something good u get publicity, u do somthing bad u get worse publicity.Fact remains if u want the adulation u should also be ready for the brickbats. The thing is simple. if he is guilty , then he should be punished. What difference does it make if it is a celebrity or not!!

Simply unbeleivable

Yesterdays Goa ODI had 2 of the most bizzare peices of action, I have ever seen. Both involved Dhoni.

The first was when he incited Geraint Jones to knock down the stumps. Jones obliged. Dhoni scampered thru for an overthrow as the ball just rolled near the stumps .Jones was still on the ground. So Dhoni simply took off for the second, when the ball was actually just a couple of feet from the keeper, and he made it. 2 runs taken ,when the farthest the ball went was to the keeper. :-)

The second was the Dhoni six, in the same over. If the previous incident was not bizzare enough, this shot certainly was!!! I cannot describe the shot in words.Only if u actually see it ,would u beleive it!!!! Stunning!!!!