Outlook reporter's anti-brahmin rhetoric might cost Hathway Group dear

It is amazing how Outlook magazine has been tolerating its Chennai-based reporter S. Anand's rabidly anti-brahmin articles.

It used to funny reading Anand's anachronistic rants - including on how Carnatic Music is dominated by Brahmins and one especially pathetic attempt to rake up controversy over a musical instrument (the mridangam).

But Anand seems to have crossed all boundaries with his highly biased and intemperate pieces on the Jayendra Saraswathi arrest affair. Click Here to sample some of the feedback for Anand's latest article. Outlook better pay heed and rein in Anand. Else, it will have to pay with a decline in its readership. I already know of some subsribers of the magazine who have woved never to touch it again - and plan to write to the publishers saying as much.

The after-effects of Anand's intemperate writing might not stop with just the magazine. The boycott - and the acompanying financial implications - might also spread to other Hathway Group companies like Hathway Internet and other companies. Is Rajan Raheja listening?