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                                          Although available few weeks after its dateline, no item in it was out of date and it made interesting reading.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 would sort out from the  available  stack  what was interesting, just like comics.                                         The magazine was founded in 1881, its circulation is said to reach 400,000 to 600,000 per week, peaki

         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.                           Young and old alike, even in the remotest parts of India, used to queue up before newspaper stalls on Friday evening or Saturday (which depended on when it reached that place depending on its distance from Bombay) t