Sportsnomics: with too much cricket even for the cricket crazy, TV viewership and ad rates go plunging! New Delhi: soon after the world cup climax, India went through the ODI series in West Indies, cramming daily news with cricket scores and images. The assumption was the more cricket you give the Indians, the crazier they get for even more. One doesn’t know who started this theory of the insatiable Indian cricket fan, but the theory has definitely come down with a massive thud! According to reports, TV viewership and advertisement rates in recent times have gone for a toss. The TV advertisement... 

Ghoora – Fireside Tales Ghoora- Fireside Tales Bihar days takes pride in  announcing a regular column by Ratnaker Tripathy, called Ghoora-Fireside Tales, the column will appear exclusively only on Bihar days every Wednesday. Ghoora in several Bihari dialects means a circle of men around the fireside, a place for storytelling under the starry skies. This weekly column by Ratnakar Tripathy will analyze selected stories of the week. By stories we often mean fairy tales, epics and legends. But stories are also the stuff of print and TV journalism, of the law courts where verdicts are...