Compliments
to the reporter (and the desk) of daily Greater Kashmir for the care to write
a story that could be understood by readers everywhere, not in just Jammu and
Kashmir. I came across this sentence in its edition of July 02, 2012 (headlined
‘Omar thanks separatists for maintaining peace’):
(Jammu and Kashmir
Chief Minister) Omar (Abdullah) had an interaction with the civil society
members including Imams (prayer leaders) and Khateebs (preachers).
The compliments are
for the explanation of the words 'Imams' and 'Khateebs.' The meanings of the words (prayer
leaders and preachers respectively) help the non-Kashmiri and non-Muslim
readers understand the context very clearly. The reporter (and the desk) did
not presume that every potential reader of the daily knows the words. This is
particularly noteworthy because news writers of leading newspapers presume that
the readers know what they write.
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