Latte with Phoenix

           Although Blitz and Current were courageous, gave investigative journalism with lots of hoopla; but light entertainment was in not heaped out. Tit-Bits This was a British weekly magazine available all over their colonies. The magazine was a joy to read having interesting bits of information from Books, Periodicals, and Newspapers of the World. The emphasis was on human interest stories concentrating on drama and sensation.                                          Although available few weeks after its dateline, no item in it was out of date and it made interesting reading.                                         It was available all over the country in magazine stores even in average sized towns at a very nominal price. We ...

         Among things forgotten are some Indian newspaper tabloids which were a craze in the period independence to the 80’s, but have gone into oblivion with the death of their owner editors.           Among them are … BLITZ – The "free, frank and fearless" and the most popular weekly in India at that time, published by Rustom Khurshedji Karanjia  or “Russy Karanjia” as he was popularly known.                                                       Blitz, a weekly tabloid was published on ordinary newsprint. Its focus on investigative journalism could be said to be courageous and a little titillating with the pin-up girls on the last page. It was fun reading the Blitz which regularly gave scoops and entertainment.               ...