Editors ignore India's water crisis

By John Cheeran
Pipes never run dry in Indian editors' homes.
No wonder then that none of the Indian newspapers carries stories on the water crisis that drain Indian lives.
But The New York Times and International Herald Tribune have carried a three-part series on India's water crisis. NYT's correspondent Somini Sengupta has done a good job of piecing together India's battles with flood and drought.
How I wish the desi editors and and desi media cared for such stories.
It is a pity that it took an American (read imperialists, or great satan, or whatever Prakash Karat and Mullahs let you call them) newspaper to focus on one of India's most pressing problems. Those media barons and politicians who threaten us that foreign direct investment in Indian media will hurt the national interest should read the three-part series in The New York Times.
India's water woes, indeed, is a news that is fit to print.
Kudos to The NYT.