Apr 30, 2008

Handwritten newspaper

I happened to read an article which had mentioned about a newspaper that has been handwritten for 81 years without a day's stopping. It is "The musalman" newspaper getting written in Chennai, India and it contains four pages. It quite amused me on the patience of the author who died recently. He had inherited this from his father and it has been going on for generations. The paper is definitely not making profit. Yes, it is in a loss but that does not stop them from writing. It has 22,000 subscribers. The newspaper has only 4 pages but I am sure it takes a lot of time to collect news and then write it manually. I appreciate the whole initiative. Another catch here is it is a urdu newspaper. So if you want to read it you must know the language :)

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