As you will realise, I am trying to emulate ToI’s standards. The folks at Indian media take their copy writing (and critical thinking) skills quite seriously. So, not content with racy headlines such as “Click your mouse for a gay spouse”, they also sprinkle nuggets of general knowledge along the way:

Holy matrimony comes with no sex bar for many Gujaratis now, courtesy an internet website which has brought soliciting homosexual relationship into the public domain.

As many as 79 hopeful Gujaratis, including homosexuals and lesbians from across the country and abroad are soliciting their better half on a matrimonial website for same-sex marriages, a first-of-its-kind in the country (URL).

“as many as 79 hopeful Gujaratis, including homosexuals and lesbians”?? Does the count include the heterosexuals? Yahaa! According to ToI. Gujarat is now a hot bed for sexual experimentation. Talking about a revolution. (Click on the image for a screengrab of the report:)

The world of homosexuality, according to ToI

The Indian media handling of any difference they cannot comprehend is staggering. I doubt if they can even handle similarity. The below conversation between a journalist and a filmmaker over a request to invite her as a talking head (the conversation is in Hindi) well illustrates the poor state of journalism and how the explosion of media industry has led to recruitment of poorly trained journalists who are unleashing their personal subjectivities on the public sphere:

Toing Scale: 5/10