According to the latest Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2006 R1 results, TOI has retained its unassailable number 1 position in Mumbai, but DNA and HT have made impressive inroads. The circulations for various newspapers based on six months of fieldwork from July to December 2005 are as following: TOI 1719000 (down from 1745000), Mumbai Mirror 765000, Mid Day 663000 (down from 691000), DNA 402000, HT 285000, Indian Express 140000 (down from 190000).
As the circulation for the new publications hasn’t come at the cost of the old ones, people are exercising their choice and buying multiple newspapers. The question then is: with both the number of newspapers in the house and the number of pages in each newspaper on the rise, are people reading more than ever before?
Thursday, April 27th, 2006
From an article forwarded by Ratoola.
India ranks 41st of 45 countries on Richard Florida’s Global Creativity Index, an aggregate measure of its strength across the 3 Ts of economic development: Technology, Talent and Tolerance. Not surprisingly, India does well on Technology, ranking 23rd worldwide. But, despite its globally renowned IITs/ IIMs, it ranks 44th on Talent, with only 6 per cent of its population holding a bachelor's degree. It also ranks a lowly 39th on Tolerance, presumably because of the emergence of the right wing political parties.
Richard Florida is an urban planner/ economist known for his revolutionary theory on the rise of the ‘creative class’. He argues that the creative class will be the real driving force for development of economies and the flight of the creative class from an economy will eventually undermine it.
I am told that Florida also has a creativity index for cities. It will be interesting to see how Mumbai/ Delhi/ Bangalore/ Kolkata stack up against each other.