One of the most common site on any Indian street (and, I believe, many other countries in the world) is people reading newspapers. In this world overloaded with technology such as Twitter, Ipad, Blackberry, etc., newspapers still remain to be the best source of news as well as time-pass for most people (especially elders). While traveling in bus, or waiting outside a shop for someone, at a taxi stand with friends, or maybe the steps of a temple, or any other place imaginable, we often see these strangers with their heads dug into the headlines of the day. True, newspapers may not be as timely as other sources of news, but they still carry a value which no other medium of the kind can take from it for a long time in the future.
“A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant
and the crazy crazier.”
~ H. L. Mencken
“It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world
every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”
~ Jerry Seinfeld
“Before marriage, a man declares that he would
lay down his life to serve you;
after marriage, he won’t even lay down
his newspaper to talk to you.”
~ Helen Rowland
“Any newspaper, from the first line to the last,
is nothing but a web of horrors,
I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch
a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.”
~ Charles Baudelaire
