Chennai it is...compared to it was-Part 1

This posting is about Chennai it is now, compared to it was 4 years before

First lets start with the Newspaper

The Hindu newspaper is my favorite, not because I am a Hindu, but because it had more pages compared to other newspaper available at that time to validate the money saved on the newspaper, and also the quality of the news, pictures, crossword, and my favorite writer S.Muthiah-Historian who writes interesting things about Chennai every monday..the habit of reading newspaper started from this newspaper for me......so when I was there in chennai last month after 4 years in malaysia...I got a fresh copy of the Hindu newspaper on that Saturday to check my favorite spots for reading, it does has the magic still!!!

Well I was there in chennai when The Deccan Herald came to capture the newspaper market with the Michael porter's strategy! Which was quite successful for some time...but now, I saw another potential competitor - The Times of India

I do like The Times of India newspaper very much when I was in mumbai for 2 years!!! The cartoon from R.K.Narayan's(my favorite writer) brother R.K.Lakshman's was my favorite! Glossy Page 3 articles, overseas jobs/jobs on Wednesday, sporting encounter on Saturdays which has the great collection of interesting phrases like.."You may be someone to the world, but for me you are the world" I had the collections of sporting encounter and many interesting articles...I read Mid day too when I traveled from Andheri to CST with my vada pav!

But I was really thrilled to see the Times of India having Karuna's interview for his latest tamil movie, and the rating of the tamil movies with box office collection!!!I am surprised and thrilled to see this...this reminds me of famous writer Sujatha who predicted that in near future we can expect local tamil magazine like Kumudam can be taken over by Times magazine and you can read "Thillalangadi" tamil movie review in Times' Kumudam magazine!!!