INDIA TODAY publishes several editions in the ´vernacular´, and some are said to be better than others. Recently got to compare an Hindi issue with the original English, and found the following key differences: There is more gratuitous Occidental ´skin´ delivered to the Hindi audience (bad), a short story (good), a photo-montaging on an article titled "The Changed Evenings of Avadh" (see picture) not found in the English edition, and the use of more gruesome pictures of a murder/suicide in the Hindi version. The rest were faithful translations of the original delivered to the English-speaking classes, including a ´people´ piece of a certain Amrita Jhaveri of whom it is reported in Vanity Reports that she made off to India with the controversial ex-chief of the Christies auction house. Well, well..
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SPEAKING OF photo selection, we all know of the editorial biases on Kashmir the Pakistani press prints pictures of Indian security men beating up Kashmiris just as often as the Indian press refrains from doing so. Both are so wrong. Things must not be overdone. As in the case of this article on the costs of doing trade with India printed in The Nation of Islamabad, which carries a picture captioned, "A view of Indian atrocities in Held Kashmir".
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