Here’s what we DO:
1. We look at stories and events out of South Asia. Our playing field: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Tibet, The Maldives, Bangladesh and Burma (we like it better than Myanmar).
2. We post daily and we post as often as we can.
3. We post stuff that we find rivetting. We’re guided solely by our personal tastes.
4. We believe in ethical blogging: all stories link to the original source. All tips and suggestions are gratefully acknowledged.
5. We welcome comments, ideas, story suggestions and criticism (though we prefer praise) and will look for your mail at: asianwindowteam [AT] gmail [DOT] com
Now, here’s what we DON’T do: We don’t (usually) post original content. We’re a filter blog.
This is who we are:
Shekhar Bhatia has launched and edited more newspapers than he cares to remember. His last assignment was with the Hindustan Times as its editor.
Namita Bhandare quit full-time journalism to be a full-time mom. Her first book (co-authored with Vir Sanghvi) is a biography, A life: Madhavrao Scindia, published by Penguin and released in March 2009. Namita writes a fortnightly column on social trends for Mint (which, of course, she uploads on the site) and spends way too much time on the Net.
Indian media space is making a serious effort at dumbing down, and now factual errors.
in this hilarious, sensational, dumb, puerile content space Asian Window is a beacon. It serves us with the best from around the world, well researched, credible, high quality insightful stuff.
thank you sirs
Sir it might be interesting for your readers to find China along with Pakistan, SL in your coverage. Also a little more from BD, Nepal; your Pakistan coverage is outstanding maybe a little attention to the rest would take AW to a higher league
Dear Namita and Mr. Bhatia,
What a fantastic site with a very focussed approach.
Your filter blog filters through just the right kind of stuff.
A very interesting endeavour.
Cheers,
Aruna Dhir
Thank you, Aruna.
Yours is a very interesting blog full of rich informations and thought provoking ideas. I enjoy reading it. But I don’t see many people commenting on a blog like this, which ideally should have got many more comments than it does. Perhaps one reason is that you have too few tags for each post. These posts can have many more tags. Please see if this can be done.
Thank you for this. Will do it for all future posts.
congratulations
john dayal
new delhi
Thanks John. Great to see you here. — Namita
Shekhar, Namita
Lovin’ it. It crossed my mind that I could probably unsubscribe HT and TOI and read this and not miss much. Except for some of the funny things that happen in the world (which feed my Facebook updates
) That would complete my day.
Best
Justin
I agree with you. Sri Lanka is beautiful country and I hope that it is protected and always nice. If African countries had more money many of the troubles would not happen, just my thought.
Feel good stuff. Lacks some biting coverage. Where is the dirt? I would’t touch your overly puffy stuff in million years, though, I could be persuaded with burning issues of asia. Talk about China-India rivalry. maybe, India-Pakistan breaking bread together.
Wish you well, though.
…and I am Sid Harth