The Times of India's Outlook!

By John Cheeran
I have no friends in The Times of India.
I have no friends in Outlook magazine too.
The Times of India is Indian reader’s most preferred choice when it comes to news. It’s the largest selling English-language paper in the country. Naturally Times must be the best.
These days, The Times of India’s sports page section opener has a legend ‘One-day Mataram’ for their Champions Trophy coverage.
In 1997, Outlook had done a cover story “One-day Mataram’ at a time when India was staging the Independence Trophy. That, I thought, was an original.
Earlier this year, during Rahul Dravid’s India’s tour to Pakistan Times of India carried a story when Sachin Tendulkar and entire Indian batting except Yuvraj Singh failed to live up to the challenge in Karachi Test. It was headlined “Endulkar.”
Again it was something Outlook had used a year earlier. Outlook had headlined a piece by Suresh Menon on Tendulkar’s travails just the same. “Endulkar.”
May be I’m just hallucinating.
Or is it case of leader following the reader?