shri vinod sharma - Rajya Sabha

starts growing everybody from the grandmother start saying, 'she is growing like
grass' and, then, they look at the son and say, 'poor thing.' They feed him with
milk and butter and say, 'he is just not growing, he is looking so pale and thin'.
There is a mindset which I regret is very much there is India. If you analyse you
will find that most of the vernacular dailies which have done extremely well and
have grown in the last few years do not have a brother. They are brother-less
sisters who have then been given the milk and almonds. But wherever there is an
English daily that connects to the ownership pattern, if you are selling a paper for
Rs. 5, your readers are also more discriminating because unlike many of the English
paper readers, the readers of a Hindi paper at least pay out of their pockets. It is
not company expense account. So, they are more discriminating. I think, we need
to appeal more and more to their sense of buying a good paper and we need to
really go to town about which is a good paper and which is flouting against the
basic ethics of a newspaper industry. I think, it is still possible to bring out a good
Hindi daily and sell it on its merits.