Under Cover Bloopers
For the trivia-minded (note how we smuggle in our goof-ups) -- stats you don'tneed.
Under Covers
Digital Divide: Designer covers that got sanghis and kangressis angry
Fare Of Bill: The cover that winged its way to 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue
ActingStaffers: Production manager Anup Dwivedi and the editors secretary,K.Sashidharan
Number of times editor-emissary R. Gopal has gone to meet Veerappan in five years: 7.
Number of audio and video cassettes sent by the brigand: 11
Politicising Crime? There were 77 elected politicians facing civil, criminal charges in98.
In March 1999Ottavio Quattrochi told Ranjit Bhushan: "Bofors didnt pay meanything."
Trivia That Tells A Tale
63/98 Number of staff members on our masthead at launch five years ago: 63
Number now:98
252/6 Number of diaries: 252.Most featured city Delhi: 92. No. of diaries from SouthIndia: 6
14/9 Number of political cover stories: 137 Most featured politician: Sonia 14,Vajpayee 9, Rao 6, Gujral 2, Gowda 2
27/3 Total number of cricket stories: 227 Cricketcovers: 27 Most featured playerSachin: 6 Azhar: 3
3,284 Number of Polscape and Glitterati items in five years: 3,284Polscape: 1,987Glitterati: 1,297
4327 Number of published letters to the editor: 4,327 Number of corrections: 57
Bloopers And Goof-ups
Closer Than You Think, was what we said on the race in the 1999 elections. Final tally:NDA: 302; Congress: 134!
In our 1999 opinion poll on top dotcoms, our pollsters ranked a non-existent cricket website as one of Indias most popular!
TV doesnt lie? One of our reporters stopped the presses to add "breakingnews" on Chandrababu Naidu. TV goofed. We goofed.
In Rohini Nilekanis story in Stree, September 2000, we captioned fourout of five pictures wrongly, including the authors!
In May 1999, we listed 11 reasons why India would win the World Cup! Fortunately, we also had 11 ready alibis if they didnt.
In our May 1997 special issue on Partition, we gave cop-columnist B.P. Saha a new moniker: Bomkesh Padulia Saha!
