Divided
An appropriate sign of how times have changed in India by the time Jyoti Basu came to die, is how the Delhi edition of the Hindu looked on the 18th morning. The national daily most sympathetic to Basu?s party displayed a vertical split on page 1. Half the page was devoted to Basu, and the other half to an ad which stretched from masthead down to the bottom of the page. Ideological convictions must share space with commercial imperatives.