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Prospects bleak for Indian handwritten newspaper
Published: 03 February, 2010, 10:21
Edited: 06 February, 2010, 11:12
As digital technology continues to envelop print media, one handwritten newspaper in India has managed to scrape by, preserving the art of ancient calligraphy, but the owners don’t know how much longer it can last.
This story has been done to the death by the media but thank God the paper still survives! In 2007 'Wired' predicted it's death then 'The Guardian' in 2008. TV also joined the bandwagon with ANI and AOL and a lot of others in 2009 carried exactly the same story. And now RT is repeating the story. But the truth is that the paper still goes on despite regular repeats of an 'imminent loss'. India has nearly 8,500 newspaper of which about 6500 are owned by individuals and have a large circulation. There are 500 TV channels as well. This is perhaps the only example of a small paper surviving in country with such stiff competition - and democracy - in the media market. Understanding India needs looking beyond repeating a story.
How sad. I absolutely know this is a human tragedy - China's loss of the greatest calligraphy on earth more than proves it, too. India's hand written news is art and how dare the country be so digitally enslaved to the artificiality of no human genius. What a shame India.