Websites Mohan Ra Track Regularly

Websites I Track Regularly

December 27, 2013 at 4:44pm

What are your Favourites?
Recently, a friend asked what websites I would visit - fairly regularly - by typing the URL in the address bar.
Here is my list:
Section I
Daily Newspapers (Foreign) - Two or three articles - twice/thrice a week
America: nytimes.com/
nytimes.com/pages/multimedia
nytimes.com/pages/books
United Kingdom: theguardian.com/uk
theguardian.com/media
theguardian.com/books
Section II
Politics, Longform, Periodical - Twitter recommendations - one/two articles only - once a week or so
theatlantic.com/
newyorker.com/
huffingtonpost.com/
Counterpunch.org
Section III
Newspapers (India & Neighbours) - Often
Telegraph - East
HT - North
DNA - West
New Indian Express - South
Dawn - Pakistan
Groundviews - Sri Lanka (tamilnet.com - dropped lately)
Section IV
Portals
Sify.com, indiatimes and rediff.com
Section V
Aggregator/curation
news.google.com, buzzfeed
Section VI
India - Politics and Media - check once or twice a week
The Hoot, Kafila, firstpost, niticentral, wearethebest.wordpress.com, caravan, Open, Outlook, Tehelka, newslaundry,
Section VII
Twitter leads: One or two articles - whenever possible
Raju Narisetti - on New Media
Romenesko - on Media
Journalism.co.uk - Media
Mihir Sharma - Wide range of stuff
Irfan Habib - Politics/neighbours/secularism
Nilanjana Roy - Literature, books, etc
Raghu Karnad/J Shainin - General
EPW - Politics - Progressive viewpoint
Section VIII
Cinema - When major releases happen
International - Rotten Tomatoes
Bollywood etc: Shubra Gupta, Rajeev Masand, Raja Sen
Southern Cinema: Sreedhar Pillai (Sify)
thebigindianpicture.com/
boxofficeindia.com
Section IX
Social Media, etc
Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Goodreads, Tumblr, Pinterest, Linkedin,
Section X 
Miscellaneous (added to favourites on different browsers in different systems)
Onion, Mashable, IMDB for lists, Wired,
iq.intel.com/, IBM Voices, dell.com's techpageone,
and a few more random sites...