FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE, November 28, 2014
Letters
Frontline
The recent innovation in
the focus and content introduced by Frontline is most welcome. When some of the
“older” periodicals are trying to fall in line with the market trend and
changing the format and content to attract the upper class rich and the busy
young, it is comforting to see a magazine devoting several pages to seriously
discuss issues like the euthanasia being given to institutions like Planning
Commission, conscious destruction of India’s public sector by an elite private
sector by dubious means and the irreparable damage being done to social sector
in the name of labour reforms.
When mainstream magazines
do not devote more than two or three pages to make a passing mention of
developments like this, the articles in Frontline can easily be presented as
background papers in groups discussing current policy issues.
Extensive book reviews
and features like the two-part series on photography covering ‘Drawn from
Light’ exhibition of photographs from last couple of centuries with a befitting
narrative by Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta make each issue a “collector’s item”.
I think, only The Hindu
group is giving the discerning Indian reader such luxury at an affordable
price.
M G
WARRIER
MUMBAI
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