Did you know that over 75% of Indian news publications are non-English?

There are several reasons for building yet another news aggregator app. I'm sharing some of these reasons in a series of short notes, in no particular order. This is Note 4.

Over 75% of Indians read news in their native language. When a tech team at one of the aggregators hears this, their immediate response is often to translate all the English news they curate into multiple Indian languages.

What they don't understand is that vernacular news is not just translated news. Vernacular news is more than that. It is regionally relevant news - news that affects the lives of people in small cities and towns; news that covers incidents and programs from the hinterland; news that emanates from our villages.

That's why, at Tikker News, our aim is to bring niche, vernacular, and local news publications onboard and give them a space to publish their stories - direct from them to you. Written in a native language, about grassroots-level issues from their regions, for readers of that native language.

Is there a specialized, local, or vernacular publication you would like to see on Tikker? Are you one such publication that would like to be on Tikker? Let us know.