Re: [silk] Glimpses of Journalistic History?

2010-05-13 Thread Deepa Mohan
Mother-Monday Saw-Saturday Father-Friday Wearing-Wednesday The-Thursday Turban-Tuesday Sun-. The day starts at 6am by the Hindu calculation, and the raahu kalam is for 1.5 hours...so the list goes 6am to 7.30am and so forth...if I recollect rightly. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Thaths

Re: [silk] Glimpses of Journalistic History?

2010-05-13 Thread Thaths
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Indrajit Gupta wrote: > What's wrong with the old, traditional ways? What's wrong with > Mother Saw Father Wearing The Turban in the Sun. > Is nothing sacred any longer? I've never heard of this way before. It sounds like some sort or mnemonic device. How exactly

Re: [silk] Glimpses of Journalistic History?

2010-05-13 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Indrajit Gupta wrote: > What's wrong with the old, traditional ways? What's wrong with > > Mother Saw Father Wearing The Turban in the Sun. > You mean to say we should stop trying to make money from a more involved and expensive way of doing a simple task, like

Re: [silk] Glimpses of Journalistic History?

2010-05-13 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Thu, 13/5/10, Thaths wrote: > From: Thaths > Subject: [silk] Glimpses of Journalistic History? > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Date: Thursday, 13 May, 2010, 23:27 > All this discussion about the sorry > state of print journalism in India > is a bit depressing.

[silk] Glimpses of Journalistic History?

2010-05-13 Thread Thaths
All this discussion about the sorry state of print journalism in India is a bit depressing. Many of you have made references to past instances where some of these newspapers and magazines were great. Could you share examples of such journalistic high watermarks from the past? Which newspaper/magazi