We citizens do not want to hear about your crappy religion theories from a newspaper like Hindustan Times.

I was shocked to read the hopeless editorial by Zia Haq called http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2010/07/18/why-we-must-call-it-saffron-terror-and-nothing-else/ which was full of stupid, cunning and nation-f*cking of a psychotic mind.

Can you please get rid of such editors who do not deserve to lead the nation. Seriously, I used to like HT for simplicity of Indians, and not a lame hindu-muslim saffron, right hand dumb religion theory.  

I think the photographs of the moderator panel are missing. It is just me or for everyone?

I have been reading Hindustan Times, Mint and visiting web properties pretty regularly. News of "Nitin to be next dean of Harvard" is indeed exciting and may mean a lot in many ways.

I think this story could have been covered in more interactive and more detailed ways on online medium. We could have covered following aspects related with story

1) Aspirational aspects of Indians at various stages in life
2) Continuous rising of Indian way of doing business (Jugaad or say latest book "HOW THE BEST INDIAN COMPANIES DRIVE PERFORMANCE" by Harbir, Jitendar and others, Marico innovation foundation )
3) Growing focus on creativity and Innovations in India for Glocal (ranging from Erehwon to local chapters of executive education from Harvard)
4) HT's vision for India to have it's own Harvard+ of 21st century (this is bit on high side -- but nonetheless I think it's good thought and worth living for)
5) More Indian achievers at global level (Management thinker - C.K. Prahlad (paying tribute as well), Ram Charan, Suresh Peplu and others, CEOs of global companies Vikram Pandit, Arun Sarin, Indira Nooyee, Rajeev Suri, Vinod Dham and others)
6) Achievements in management/ business by Indians in India - Future Group, Nano creation, SKS Microfinance, Catamaran, Commissioner in Surat and others..

I have read numerous articles in HT or Mint on above topics and would not be surprised availability of related videos/ podcasts in your repositories on these topics. All it needs is searching and hyper-linking above and more related stories together and create a sort of micro-site.

Great would be to have significant user-interactivity features for users to

1) Share/ Submit their stories or share stories they know and consider worth appearing on this platform
2) Re-contextualise your old stories in new internet ways of storytelling (less than 140 characters, multimedia story, mixing text, audio, video, showing stories using timeline and geography - Google maps and all sort)
3) Comment on stories around individuals/ achievements in website
4) Ranking of stories
5) Sharing content from website with friends on Facebook, LinkedIn, Tweeter, diggIt and other social networking platforms
6) Expose content through API for developers so they can include content from site in their blogs, personal pages, Facebook pages etc
7) Host discussion forums with specific topics around world adapting Indian ways (Ayurveda, Jugaad, Ethics from India), India in 2020, Education Indian way, Innovating India, Industrial age to knowledge age etc

You can engage professional education community, professionals (starting, medium, senior, leadership positions), consulting companies and students to share, learn and to benefit in real sense.

Majority of above can also be run as series of articles in Print at the same time. (This is my view)

Doing above, I see you can derive following direct business benefits

1) Attract advertisements from Businesses and education institutes for running "brand campaigns" in print and online mediums. "Direct response campaigns" can also be attracted from consulting companies and local & global education institutes.
2) Utilize community generated content in print and save editorial cost
3) Experiment with community powered website
4) Partner with companies having similar interests to start sponsoring series of events on these themes in universities, companies and industry forums

Let this be aspirational in nature fully loaded with creativity, fun and humor. This is key requirement to build an active and vibrant community around. I think you would agree.

Happy to discuss/ talk further....

chess is a very popular game in india. many people love to solve chess puzzles. HT should consider starting a chess puzzle column with sudoku and other puzzles. chess is the number one mind game. Thank you.

Desimartini does not stand a chance against FaceBook, Orkut etc.

DM looks like a ugly blot on your otherwise powerful brand. It sucks to see a third class social network with no clue of what it is to be associated with a powerful brand of Hindustan Times.

Shut it down immediately and diversify into businesses of your competence only.