Concept
The Times of India
Overview
The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily news and digital news media. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and the second-largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder". It is considered a newspaper of record.
Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called TOI "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked TOI among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), which is controlled by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, TOI was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. In a 2021 survey, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism rated TOI the most trusted news brand among English-speaking online news users in India. Since the 2000s, the newspaper has also been criticised for establishing the practice of accepting payments in exchange for positive coverage in the Indian news industry.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
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Their charter was exclusive, and, though not confirmed by act of parliament, was in those days supposed to convey a real exclusive privilege. For many years, therefore, they were not much disturbed by interlopers. Their capital, which never exceeded seven hundred and fourty-four thousand pounds, and of which fifty pounds was a share, was not so exorbitant, nor their dealings so extensive, as to afford either a…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Close in meaning to The Times of India; the term itself is not named.
The Branch was therefore fortunate in being, in 1916, invited by the Government of the Central Provinces to produce a series of Readers—in Hindi and Marathi—for use in schools throughout the province. At that time no paper could be imported from England, and the staff of the Branch was depleted by war. Nevertheless, within a year over half a million volumes had been written, printed, and illustrated, and were ready…
Oxford University Press, Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
Close in meaning to The Times of India; the term itself is not named.
Already an outcry is raised for abolishing the councils as a superfluous and expensive clog on the wheels of government; while the clamor has long been urgent, and is daily obtaining more countenance in the highest quarters, for the abrogation of the professional civil service, which breeds the men that compose the councils, and the existence of which is the sole guaranty for their being of any value.
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
Close in meaning to The Times of India; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed The Times of India
- Gujarati language
- B. R. Ambedkar
- Buddhaghosa
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Swami Vivekananda
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Amartya Sen
- Osho
- Bracha L. Ettinger
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale
- Rajneesh movement
- Basava
Related ideas
- Mumbai
- BBC
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Indian subcontinent
- Authoritarianism
- Bengali language
- Cricket
- Switzerland
- The New Yorker
- Kannada
- Delhi
- Chennai
Place in the tradition
Part of Animism.