Indian Press and published print: I had tried before to squeeze this section into some of the other pages here on 'Life in US' but felt that this chapter has its own place. Indian Literature is so well respected and sought after that we should not lose it in our craze for modern music and movies. So, here it is and I am going to list all the different places where you can find published Indian magazines over the internet and also provide some direct links to the various Indian newspapers. I am not very fond of typing in the urls everyday for all the newspapers I visit and so, this would be the 'Start Menu' for me, everyday...and may be yours if it stands out to be worthy enough. Finally a page, even my dad would find very useful. An interesting thing I would like to share is that, during my effort to gather all these papers, I landed onto PressDisplay.com which is, just incredible. It's features are too good and is worth the price. Use offer code 'custom' to try the unlimited version free for a month. And after that you might as well come here to view the epapers directly from this page ;). And before we get onto the regional newspapers, here is a quick reference list of all the major Indian portals and you would already have your choice for the best indian portal. Please check the Books section for Indian literature written in English.
Hindi A consolidated list of all newspapers in Hindi follows: If I had enough time and the required skills, I would have created a mixed feed widget like the one here - Mixed Feed Widget. It would be nice to have something like that to see the top headlines across different Indian newspapers in one single place. But for now, Samachar should be good enough.
Telugu A collection of all popular Telugu newspapers is listed below. Most of us check at least two of these papers everyday, in addition to the portals in English. So, putting these here would mean a lot of less typing for all of us. And may be, now that you have some of the papers you never thought of checking before, listed here, it is time to check the differneces in how the papers report. There are a large number of Telugu websites that I know of which allow you to keep in touch with the good old pure Telugu. Some of them are really good and occasionally it is worth to spend some time here to appreciate the powerful nature of the language and the depth in some of the words Telugu has.
Tamil I have put together a compiled list of the most popular newspapers I could collect from my friends and colleagues. If you think something is missed out, you are always welcome to leave a message.
Kannada Kannada has always been the underdog when it comes to online presence. Most of the forums, music websites and associations always revolve around Telugu and Tamil, as far as South India goes. Not that there is less representation of people from Karnataka, but it is just that all those websites are not within the mainstream and appear to be in some secret vault. May be partly because, most of the people from Karnataka like to opt for English, I am not so sure though. So, here is the list of what I think are the apt ones. The ordering may need to be changed but I would need help in doing so. Otherwise, if the below list works, good for you and me.
Malayalam I am not sure what to write in for Malayalam. It would have been nice if I could put something in Malayalam here. Whenever I hear the spoken Malayalam, I always hear half Sanskrit and I am still unsure as to how it closely matches with Tamil as I don't see much of Sanskrit in Tamil. Well, I know that there is/are a few connections but logically, I am not convinced ;-).
Bengali Bringing it all together for Bengali press was, I would say an ordeal itself. The only reason is that it is too difficult to distinguish Bangladeshi Bengali and Indian Bengali. It doesn't look much different in my view but it appears that there are quite a few differences. So, after filtering down the list a lot, the final abridged version is given below. If you still see some adulteration, do drop a note and I shall correct it.
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