Masthead
Most newspapers list their editors on this page. Here is ours, together with an honest account of the parts of this operation that are not a newsroom in the way you might expect.
The byline
Every article carries the byline Indian Opinion Desk. That is not a person. It is the automated system that groups incoming reports and produces the brief and the analysis. We use one consistent byline rather than a roster of invented author names, because fabricated bylines would imply human authorship we do not have.
Articles are attributed the same way in structured data: to Indian Opinion the organisation, never to a person.
Who edits it
Ramakrishnan Lokanathan, Founder and Editor. He founded Indian Opinion and Great Indian Company, and heads editorial for both: the source list, the rules the system follows, the models it uses, and the thresholds that decide what is good enough to publish.
The editor is responsible for everything that appears here. Editorial and corrections enquiries reach him directly at [email protected], and are answered by the person responsible for the output rather than by a desk.
Who owns it
Indian Opinion is a content publication and distribution brand owned by Great Indian Company, Royal Avenue, Gowri Krishna, Shettahalli, Jalahalli West, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560015, India. Phone +91-7559041299. Email [email protected]. Website www.greatindiancompany.com. GST 29AAWFG7015K1ZQ.
Ownership sits with Great Indian Company. Editorial does not: what publishes, how it is written and when something is corrected are decided under the rules below, by the editor, not by the parent company.
What the system decides, and what a human decides
The system decides which stories to publish, how to summarise them, and how to phrase the analysis. It does all of that inside rules that a human sets and revises. A human does not review each article before it goes live, and we state that plainly rather than imply an editing layer that is not there.
So the division is this. The machine makes every individual call. The editor chooses what the machine is allowed to do, which sources it may draw on, what clears the bar for publication, and what happens when it gets something wrong.
The rules it works to
The publishing rules themselves are written down rather than left implicit. The Editorial Policy sets out the corroboration requirement, the service journalism exception, relevance scoring, and what a brief and an analysis each are. The AI Use Policy describes where AI is used and where it is not. When an article is wrong, the route and the remedy are in the Corrections Policy.
