Photos: A peek into magazine covers of yore

Collecting magazines is their obsession. Naresh Dudani, 65, a retired journalist; Deepak Rao, a Mumbai police historian; and Nikhil Prasad Ojha, 50, a administration guide have been spending their free time monitoring down years of again points of their favorite Indian magazines. They provide a window into the previous that feels pressing, still-alive, and infrequently unusually present too. Dudani alone has a set of 25,000 editions. Here’s a take a look at some.learn more

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A February 1983 situation of The Illustrated Weekly of India, priced at ₹3, by the way, asks – Can The Congress (I) Put Its House In Order?

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A December 1989 situation of The Telegraph magazine turns the lens on auteur Satyajit Ray and his view of the world.

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A particular situation of Femina from August 1975 guarantees very important ideas in a canopy story titled How To Look Young, Stay Young, Longer. Didn’t that headline print once more simply this week?

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In June 1983, The Illustrated Weekly of India declares: Computers in India: Crossed Wires? Computers have been making headway. By this time, Infosys had been based, the IITs have been providing their first BTech levels in laptop science. Wipro was advertising and marketing Intel’s 8086 minicomputer. But infrastructure was lagging and would proceed to lag for many years.

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A 1990 situation of Sunday magazine, with a canopy story on Dhirubhai Ambani. Can Ambani Survive? We know the reply to that one now. Kashmir: Is It Too Late, asks one other headline on the quilt. To this one, there are nonetheless no solutions.

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A 1991 situation of The Telegraph magazine tracks the early days of satellite tv for pc TV in India. The World At Your Home: For Just ₹150 Per Month, reads the quilt. A steep value for the time. Then got here Direct-To-Home, the web, YouTube. Today, steep costs are making a comeback with streaming.

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