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           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Although available few weeks after its dateline, no item in it was out of date and it made interesting reading.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, peaking in 1955 at 1,150,000. It closed down around 1990, giving more than a century of delight to its readers.

                                            
                                         

      The weekly SUN

              This was an equally good weekly magazine of Indian origin. It had lots of interesting information like Tit-Bits. It regularly printed Lyrics of popular Pop songs and other current information liked by the youth.

  

              It also had lots of easy competitions to which entry was free and prizes were items such as jeans / t-shirts / badminton raquets / shoes / transistor radios etc, etc.

                 The SUN started publishing from New Delhi around 1978 and continued I believe till late 1990's

                    Its Editor was Vishwa Bandhu Gupta