On a day when the biggest news story for most Indian newspapers was India’s almost miraculous win in their match against Pakistan in Melbourne in the ongoing T20 World Cup, one paper decided to make a non-sport and non-political story its page 1 lead.
On October 23, the Bengaluru-based Deccan Herald had this special story leading on page 1: “The ills of India’s drug regulation machinery”. I consider the decision courageous because not only did it break the norm followed by most mainstream papers but also the choice of subject. By doing this, the paper’s editors had clearly decided that it was important to draw attention to a story that had already slipped off the radar.
