I had been switching between the two. When on DH, I found ToI covering more city news (volume). When with ToI, felt as if DH was  carrying 'better' local reports (quality). Just don't  have time to read two newspapers.

Currently with no daily english newspaper, plan to try DNA from next week.

I like DH for 'local' news. Also browse Hindu for more 'national' type reports.

Ravi

 I subscribe to TOI. Not because its content may be the best. It is because I find it cost effective. For the subscription I give it gives the best weight when I sell it off at old paper mart.

One gets used to regular features a paper carries. For example "To the point" by HS Balram and parting shot there in etc. One of my friends reads three papers. That may be better to really get to know different view points. But I am quite a lazy person.

I switched from TOI to Asian Age first - because I realised that the articles in TOI were just advertisements for Times Group products. The articles in Deccan Herald, while local, are usually quite badly written - I recall one article on some atrocity commited in a village - it was reported -`When this reporter reached the villiage it was peopled by a pall of gloom'.

The good thing about Asian Age is that most of their articles are stolen from better newspapers - they do, for example, publish articles from the Karachi Dawn, which is oftentimes interesting as it gives a different perspective on the Indo-Pak situation. The only problem with the  Asian Age is that they have very little local coverage.

However, Deccan Chronicle seems to have a combination of both The Asian Age  and local news - I think it has the same publisher as the Asian Age. And they have a jumble and are only Rs 72 per month.

Ramesh

TOI is nothing but local masala with clored photos..no stuff at all

Highly stale news