The Morning Newspaper....!

The morning newspaper comes early in the morning if it is on times. At times it may not arrive on time with the vendor-distributor and then it may get late affecting all of us readers badly. But mostly, by and large, by all means it falls at our door at five thirty in the morning, by the grace of the enterprising youngster who finishes distribution by six thirty in the morning to start his regular work of running his shop till noon to go to college in the afternoon ..! That is some enterprise. But he does it.

Once he distributes he may have more people who waits for him, especially those in retirement and old age, wanting eagerly to know what has happened to the world the day before, and also to know what will happen to the world tomorrow as visualised by the newspaper houses. A fair paper we read is one with a large circulation and once in hand we are appeased. The front page shows us the two faces of the Galaxy (of course not the real Galaxy but the mobile phone called Galaxy) and we are enthralled and we are told we can get it on flipcart. I will not write the price, mentioned, here..! Many consider it a great price if not a big price.

Times have changed these days. These are new times. Oldies will never understand. We used to stand in line to pay the telephone bills which cost us two hundred Rupees or more and started a conversation with the next man or woman in line about the exhorbitent charges ..! Now no body talks about the exhorbitent charges or the price of the phone. A telephone had to be booked in advance remitting one thousand Rupees and had to wait for installation. The line men came and fixed the cable line for the phone and fixed it at a place we mentioned and also gave us a directory which contained almost all the names and numbers of the users in the city. That is unheard of now. We could find out a long lost friend or acquaintance from the telephone directory, if he or she had started living in that city by merely chasing their name in the directory which had all the names arranged in the alphebetical order.

Those cute huge directories found their way to the 'accri' shop (The shops which buy residue materials and used items including old newspaper etc.) owner and since trees are not to be cut any more, no more directories are coming out.

After the whole page of 'Galaxy' next turn over is to show us the availability of parathas, ready to eat available in the local super market. The convenience quoted is that you don't have to make it but can have it and just warm it to eat! Great items. Then starts the news I was waiting for avidly.After the name and date of the paper and iits emblem I have the four urgent needs little bits just below them mentioning about the next would be American President and something about the top cricketers' achievement which is equal to another top cricketer. Then the flip flaps in various parties in the nation and other troubles elsewhere. Below before I t a turn over I have hope for home loan by a major bank and a top ditergent liquid.!

Browsing on I find beautiful poetical advertisements with interspersed news on flight tickets, eye testing, health improvement and fertility enhancement. They are followed by cars and computers with new additions here and there with matching poetry with prices which or ok for the advertisement and for well erning youngsters but not to the interest of old people with old mind sets who saw them as simply an object for simple movement to be sparingly used. In between there are troubling news, happy news, do goodders' news and philanthropical news!

An area of one of the pages show a lot of obituary photographs which throw us into down memory lane to think what all those in the photographs would have studied and worked at, whom all they would have helped etc. Etc. These are followed by matters of taxes and savings, a bit of climate which of course interest us to see, if we have to keep an umbrella while going out! The views and cartoons really help us to find a balance in the whole reading directing us at the proper directions we have to take. The cartoonist does it in the most simple way by telling it all in a small area which covers the entire happening of the day..! Kudos to them, the cartoonists who tell so much through so little and enthuse any one with amind to enjoy them. They are followed by more news of the day before and interspersing pointers are about investments invitations to various states. The paper comes to the conclusion of its first section now with the ubiquitous advertisement in colour and poetry for scooters and motor cycles which we are told is a great presentationwith economy, mileage and celebration, you know it all..! Wow. The paper of the morning is a great enjoyment satisfying our hunger for news and views these days. So I pack of my paper to read later at ease, starting from page one again, this time I shall have to ready a few additional pages called metro plus (this is additional to the main paper) and some other small trivia sectiion along with a city section.

Let me stop writing now, and proceed to read it early complete it as I wish every day, as I have to read tomorrow's paper tomorrow..!