• Keeping with its celebrity and sheer awesomeness, the honchos of the Times have decided to bestow upon its readers two cover pages. Yes, two cover pages. The first (usually in a shade of glossy that should be termed a health hazard) is largely an advertisement for cars or IPL cricket teams and the second ‘cover’ is where the boring old news starts. Well, at least the Times is honest about its priorities, eh!
  • Every newspaper has an ‘editorial’ section to distinguish that part of the newspaper that publishes opinion, not fact. Now the opinions of the esteemed editors at the Times are clearly too far-reaching to be relegated to the Editorials. Accompanying every major news item on the front page, thus, is an insert called the ‘Times View’. I’d be very interested to know how the few thousand staff at the country’s largest publishing house come up with a consensus unanimous enough to be labelled ‘Times View’. SMS vote? Daily poll? Again, we must applaud the Times for their honesty, which publication would unabashedly declare its bias in reporting news stories? And on the cover (albeit second cover) page?
  • I always thought the only reason people buy the Times anymore (well, besides pictures of Maria Sharapova on the sports page) is because of its classy, well-loved supplement The Bombay Times (BT). I was wrong. The newspaper waala at the station now has two stacks- one for the Times+Bombay Times package and one for BT alone. Though the second stack is always smaller than the first, people do buy the Times after all (this is prior to testing the alternate hypothesis that it is used to shield one’s clothes from the dirty train seats because BT is too sacred to be yielded to this cause).
  • This is a personal gripe with the Times. The Sudoku in the Chennai Times is always set to ‘Medium’ and the one in BT is always set to ‘Easy’. Hello, what is that supposed to mean!

 

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