I have started another blog - mediaruminations.blogspot.com - where I will be posting stray thoughts about what disturbs me about the media and journalists. I will be cross posting some of them on this blog as well, like the one I have done below.
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- seetha
- A journalist and committed liberal, who hates straitjackets of any kind and detests labels even more. Author of The Backroom Brigade: How a few intrepid entrepreneurs brought the world to India. Penguin Portfolio, 2006. Co-author of The Maruti Story: how a public sector company put India on wheels. Collins Business, 2010. I tweet @soorpanakha
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