Wednesday, May 14, 2008

'The Musalman', oldest handwritten Urdu newspaper - Yahoo! India News

'The Musalman', oldest handwritten Urdu newspaper - Yahoo! India News

'The Musalman', oldest handwritten Urdu newspaper

Wed, May 14 11:35 AM

Chennai, May 14(ANI): In this era of information explosion where news industry has become synonymous with high end technology, Chennai is successfully publishing a handwritten urdu newspaper for past eight decades now. Titled 'The Musalman', it is perhaps the oldest Urdu daily in the country and possibly the only handwritten newspaper in the world.

Since the past 81 years, the newspaper is being printed everyday without fail from Triplicane High Road office ever since its inception in 1927.

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