Superstitions
May 3 2009, ARVIND K.PANDEY

Well, media in our times is primarily money oriented. It needs money to conduct its business. Money in our times comes easily via sex related stories or via “bhoot- pret” (ghost) stories. So every other magazine is either conducting dubious surveys...

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