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Ep 263: The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Journalism Is Not What Journal Is

Journalism is a business. A lot of journalism across the country actually runs on government advertising. So if you become editor and owner together, your primary loyalty towards your readership or your listeners gets diluted. It's necessary to have a fire wall around the editorial no matter who the owner is. I don't write for any hinde paper, except the one that i'm advising. The hiest selling hindi papers are now, i o making me feel very embarrassed looking at them. But then i think the new technology may once again empower individuals. And maybe it will become possible, like self-sustaining newspapers. Because no government lackes complete truth so therefore, every successive government

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