Indian Print Media, Pt.1
Here are newspaper clippings from the last couple months. They come from the pages of The Times of India and The Hindu, the two papers our house receives daily.
Some headlines, in their bid for reader attention, can get dramatic:
Those bursts need to chill. Other headlines (and their articles) seem to advance a clear agenda, sometimes fairly progressive, sometimes pro-status quo. Here is one example, which, in spite of its hilarious and simplistic title, has a big-brothery feel:
And another headline, whose article helps citizens to reach new heights:
Peep the white dude pointing accusatorily at the emotional woman.
Other times headlines give too much information, or give information too weirdly:
Still others are just awesomely, inexplicably weird. For the life of me I couldn't get this next image oriented properly (wtf), but the headline belongs in The Onion:
This seems just right for a US paper, but I'm surprised that anyone in India could find something cricket-related to be less than gripping.
Fairly black humour here, but I thought the syntax in this obituary was funny:
(Sorry, R. Sampath.)
The premier beauty contest in India, the Pantaloons Femina Miss India Contest, concluded in my first days in-country. The top three finishers are given the titles PFMI Universe, PFMI World, and PFMI Earth, I guess. "This year, PFMI Universe and PFMI World shared the top honours." The caption speaks for itself.
Wtf, seriously.
While hard to know exactly how to interpret the events reported in this next tid-bit, I liked the writing, which chronicles the latest instalment in the brutal, gruesome, bloody (and escalating) "man-animal conflict":
It has gotten a bit out of control, it's true. One of my favorite ad campaigns in the papers here is for SimplyMarry.com, one of the handful of sites that help people to arrange marriages over the internet. It's another good look at 'the traditional' and 'the modern' blending in that characteristically Indian way (sorry again about the alignment):
Here's another, though this dude seems way less cool than our Bengali homie:
Sounds gay. Finally, I liked this image:
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posted by Alex Cref at 2:56 pm 
COMMENTS:
jade ajani said: these are so precious. serious laugh out load quality. please post more when you can.
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