[Reader-list] Content Analysis of Braille Magazine

[ram murthi]

Fourth Posting (Content Analysis of Braille Magazine)

Dear Friend wish you a relief form tiring heat of May 16, 2006

In my last posting I tried to have a classification of contents of Sparshsetu in different category. In this posting I will try to analysis the content of the topic which are related to quality. 

The nothing is free from politics any idea, though fact or assumption have direct or indirect political wearing. We need to point them or along with there proper context. However I have categoriesed on the those topic in the category of politics which are directly related to expedient polity and Generally followed by media or people as political issues. Here is the lift of the topic.

Issue	Name of the topic	Author	Source of Article
120 Jan. 2004	 Rehearsal of Legislature assembly election. 	Not Mentioned 	Not Mentioned
120 Jan. 2004	Bihari’s are targeted in Asam  	Not Mentioned	Not Mentioned
120 Jan. 2004	Police Officer & Politician helped telgi in stamp scan	Not Mentioned	Not Mentioned
120 Jan. 2004	Amidst the trivial 	Not Mentioned	Not Mentioned
120 Jan. 2004	Women power, a decisive wave. 	Not Mentioned	Not Mentioned
121 Feb. 2004	Sikhs are threating to stop the study of their children in the school of France 	Not Mentioned	Out Look
121 Feb. 2004	Struggle for control on Prime Institution of Education 	Not Mentioned	Out Look
121 Feb. 2004	Warior are at front 	Not Mentioned	India Today
122/123 (Combined Issue Mar./April 2004)	Popularity is not like earlier 	Ajit Kumar Jha	India Today
122/123 (Combined Issue Mar./April 2004)	Obstinacy of General 	Indranhi Bagchi	India Today
122/123 (Combined Issue Mar./April 2004)	Star of Crown 	Shankar Ayyar & Frajand Ahmad	India Today
124 May 2004	Indo Genius/Foreigner	Not Mentioned	Sarita
124 May 2004	Wind of change from small wholes in Saudi Arabia 	Romyshiraj, Muddraraqks	Sarita
124 May 2004	Youth caught in Syndrome of Election 	Vireandar Briyarjayoti	Sarita
124 May 2004	But is the job of starts in the courtyard of Politics 	Pratinidhi	Sarita
125 June 2004	Who is responsible for dynistialsim in India. 	Not Mentioned	Griha Shobha
126 July 2004	A profit of piece	Harivarana	Sarita
126 July 2004	The sardar of Sonia	Prabhu Chawla 	India Today
127 August 2004	America falls desert of Iraq 	Arun Wajhpeye	Sarita
127 August 2004	The Ill-fated world of Ishart  	Udaay Mahoorkar & Shila Ravla	India Today
128 Sept. 2004	The consistent growth, legacy corrupt politician & Video operates	Jagdish Pawar	Sarita
128 Sept. 2004	Anarchy in Iraq 	Not Mentioned	Sarita
128 Sept. 2004	Tiered Drill by tired leadership	Priya Sehgal	India Today
129 Oct. 2004	Designation of Governor, Internal conflict of Legislative & constitutional sanities 	Dr. Ashok Kumar Avasthi	Sarita
129 Oct. 2004	Again the game of duplicity 	Raj Cengappa	India Today
129 Oct. 2004	100 Days of Tug of war completed  	Bhavdeep Kang & Priya Sehgal	India Today
130 Nov. 2004	People are disturbed form Atrocities of Paks Army in occupied Kashmir 	Usha S. Duggar 	Sarita
130 Nov. 2004	Some Pertinent question arose on presidential power of grant pardon   	Dr. Ashok Kumar Avasthi	Sariata
131 Dec. 2004	Welcome by roses in the ways 	Raj Cengappa & Anil Padamnamm	India Today
131 Dec. 2004	Happiness on the victory of Bush 	Rohit Saran & Ramesh Vinayak	India Today
131 Dec. 2004	Way is not easy for Urhi – Mujaffarabad	Usha S. Duggar	Sarita
131 Dec. 2004	Me And my Family	Bhavdeep Kang	India Today
 Above table reveal that in the whole year related of our study total 32 articles were published in this magazine directly on polity out of which two were taken    form outlook, one was borrowed from GrihShobha, 12 from India today and 17 were borrowed from Sarita. 

The source of original material suggest that generally material has been selected from those magazine which are read generally by middle class people and these magazine have very little concern with rural folk. Above table indicates that most of the articles are related to main stream politics which is often not followed by common people particularly in rural areas. That’s why this analysis in a way is comment upon above magazine themselves. Question arises in the context of Sparshsetu that why the editorial board of this magazine selected material from these magazine only where as lot of other magazine were available to serve this purpose such as EPW, Frontline, Seminar, Main Stream etc. The problem with the magazine like Sarita or GrihShobha is that they just try to catch up the popular feelings of middle class people specially youth & Women and they don’t bother about real concerns of people. There were so many crucial political events or occurrence which should have been covered by these magazines. Submergence of historical town Harsood in Khandwa Distt. Of M.P., people struggle of land rights in various states in India, suicide by farmers etc. are an illustration of those issues which should have been covered. Sparshsetu is any how deserved to be credited to provide some basic information about Indian polity to visually impure people, otherwise many of them might have been deprived even from this kind of information. However the label and standard to analysis of these article invites certain question which can be addressed after knowing the policy and criterion of selection of material by the editorial board of this magazine. This will be done later on in the next Posting.     



Date: 16-5-06							Ram Murti 
Fifth Posting (Content Analysis of Braille Magazine)

Dear Friends have a good time. In last posting I did analysis the contents related to polity of this magazine. Which suggested that before analysing content further we need to investigate the policy of magazine from its editorial board & owner. In addition to its study design also required to have interviews of reader of this magazine. Therefore in this posting I am sending Questionere editorial Board or owner of the magazine & questionere for readers to whom I shall interview little later.

Questionere for Editorial Board or owner of the magazine :-

1.	Why did you keep this very name (sprashsetu To this magazine) what it signifies?
2.	What are the aims & objective of this magazine?
3.	What is the target readership of this magazine?
4.	Do you aim to follow any particular Ideology?
5.	Do you want to cover some particular area by this magazine?
6.	How do you select the content?
7.	How do you received the contents? 
8.	How do you approach to author?
9.	Do you need to follow any specific norms to borrow material from various magazine?
10.	What is the process of editing the article or other write up?
11.	Do you give any honorarium to author?
12.	Do you have any specific circulation drive?
13.	What shortcomings do you see in this magazine?
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14.	What do you see the most strongest point of this magazine?
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15.	Are you satisfied with standard of article if yes why and if not why?
16.	Which kind of initiative do you plan to take to improve the standard of magazine ?
17.	What plans do you have to increase its readership?
18.	What are your ideal to achieve for this publication?
19.	What kind of problem do you face while publishing this magazine?
20.	What contribution do you want to get from your reader?
21.	Do you have any plan to increase your resource pool of author if yes what is that?
22.	How do you visualize support from NFB readership?
23.	Do you have sufficient working autonomy?
24.	What if the process of the decision making specifically in regard to contents selection?   

Questioner for Reader:-

Particulars of Reader
	Name of the reader 		:	
	Correspondence Address	:
	Age				:
	Sex				:
	Occupation			:

1.	 How did you come to know about this magazine (Sparshsetu)?
2.	Are you subscriber or borrower of this magazine, if borrower where from where do you borrow?
3.	Why did you began to subscribe this magazine?
4.	From What time you are subscribing this magazine?
5.	Can you afford to pay the subscription, if not how do you manage the subscription?
6.	What do you like most in this magazine?
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7.	What do you dislike most in this magazine?
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8.	What improvement do you want to see in this magazine?
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9.	What can you contribute for enrichment of this magazine?
10.	Are you able to follow the language and structure of this magazine? If no, why?
11.	How does it help you in your occupation?
12.	Do you have any thing to learn from this magazine?
13.	What are the shortcomings in this magazine in general?
14. 	Is there any area which is not been covered by this magazine?
15. 	Does it reach at time to you?
16.	Any comments to offer?


Date: 16-5-06								Ram Murti
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