Which daily was it?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 24/02/2016

The article for which Ashish Nandy has said he is willing to apologise was titled Blame the Middle Class, and published by the Times of India on January 8, 2008. Most news reports on Feb 24 did not name the daily while reporting what Nandy told the Supreme Court. This is partly because most media outlets pick up their legal news from PTI which staunchly refuses to name media houses in any media news it puts out. The Delhi editions of The Times of India and the Economic Times did not report this news at all today.

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Blame the Middle Class Times of India Ashish Nandy.

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