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Monday, 25 October 2004

Quoting Cairns

Posted on 01:15 by Unknown
Chris Cairns was in Delhi a couple of days ago. Excerpts from the HT City front-page report:



"Indians are beautiful people. The culture is rich, people are helpful and the food is great. I love spicy food...chicken lababdar..." Cairns is also a connoisseur of Indian beauty. "One only has to look at the beauty competitions won by Indian women to know how beautiful they are...Aishwarya Rai...blah blah..."



Why don’t newspapers just keep a little template handy with quotes like these that they can freely put in each time there’s a visitor in town? I’m sure they’ll never be sued for misquoting (unless of course the visitor is Fidel Castro, but then what are sub-editors for?)

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