Its not really a review, to help somebody to decide on Buying this Item....I have been reading Deshabhimani ever since I have learned to read. In kerala news comes in two extremes - The left version and the right version. We have to read minimum 2 news papers to guess the actual NEWS.
Deshabhimani is published by the CPIM kerala. It just report news in the publishers interest. Biased towards left and its leaders. Have to keep that in mind.But then there are some good reporting too- Sports and local news are well covered.
They have the tendency to make anybody a leftist as long as they know nobody will question.As per them Maradona, Messi, Saddam, Ahmedinejad, Chavez are among the best persons of our time and George Bush (Sr&Jr), Chidambaram, Manmohansingh, Modi are among the worst leaders.
Still they believe US spends half their time to eliminate Leftists from 3 states of India. After USSR fell, South America is the best part of World. They are confused about Obama - Is he a leftist? Many People in US areblaming him. But then how can a leftist be a president in US?
Paper and print quality ( I mean the real paper which they use) is very poor. May be the worst paper available for the industry. if five people reads the paper, it will become like a very thin soiled cotton cloth.
Nobody cares about all these - Its the third largest circulated news paper in Kerala -
mainly for three reasons
They are addicted to it. (Like me)
They have access to it without any cost. ( in a library, or others House) (Like me)
They are forced to buy it, by the local leftists. (Its a matter of Rs.100 per month. better to spend a 100/= per month than get into the black list of local leaders...) They use all tactics ( friendship, sweet words, warning, and even indirect blackmailing etc) to make people buy this paper.
The Good things
Good reporting of sports and local news.
Will reach you before Sunrise ( they have printers in almost all districts)
Almost everything is biased in kerala. So this is a good news paper for pragmatic leftists.
Bad Things
very Very Poor Paper and print.
Very poor and Ugly Website.
Biased news. ( Its a news paper by a political party- so we cant really treat this a s a BAD point. They have to counter the attack form other biased newspapers.)