Raghu your points though passionate and true contradict themselves.
Why should u write specific columns only about Karnataka/Bangalore ? Just bcoz more no. of people get interested, more debates on the discussion board and lot of people click ur links... this increasing no. of hits in the website ? -> This way, Rediff is heading for closure soon.
If they are catering to the consumer they will get what they want. Throw Journalistic integrity out of the window. Today its all about numbers in every profession. By hook or crook give me success. Damn even research labs all over the world are working on that philosophy. Forget rediff, its really embarassing when a company that was as innovative as IBM was, shuns invention for implementation.