So you are left to search for the real news, hoping that when you find it, it isn't an ode to a search engine. As a collection of gossip, fashion, agony-aunting and party set mugshots, this supplement is unsurpassed. Which is good, because even thinking of what something that surpassed it would look like gives me a headache. Being the largest, the Times has driven most other papers in the same direction. So what we have in the Indian press is a steadily growing menu of gossip, Internet polls and fluffy supplements.
Actual news gets harder and harder to find.