Letters to the Hoot: sins of commission

BY ninan| IN Opinion | 11/09/2003
Headlines should not be flip about death, columnists should not be flip about people’s names.

 

 

 

 

Express Headline                                        

 

I found this heading on the front page of the Indian Express (7 Sept. 03) net edition: Terrorism Comes Shopping To Srinagar Market. It is only in the second paragraph the reporter tells us that six persons have died in a blast.  The first para is devoted to melodrama. This is now `routine` reporting in the Express. But I am baffled by the heading. Whoever gave that heading must be on the last leg of sanity.

 

Dasu Krishnamoorty

7.9.2003

 

 

 

Insulting Names

 

The Hindustan Times’  television critic refers in her column  to Senthil Chengalvarayan as Senthil unpronounceable. Last week she referred to a Kolkata writer whom NDTV seems to have interviewed as Jayabrato whatshisname from Kolkata. This isn`t flippancy. it is just bad taste.

 

Seetha Parthasarathy

 7.9.2003