Beard? TV? Must be Prannoy Roy

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02 June, 2008

Mohib writes in:

Related to your post, Indian Newspapers and the Internet, I saw this slideshow at the HT website.

Please browse to the last image (9) of the slideshow. It erroneously mentions Arun Lal as Prannoy Roy and also manage to get the name incorrect (Pranav Roy). Just because he has a beard and is on TV? WTF?

Well, I have a (temporary) beard now, so I guess all I have to do to be Prannoy Roy is climb on my TV set. So there.

Posted by Amit Varma in Journalism | Media | WTF

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