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Marathi: Big Newspapers Are Elephants By Robin Jeffrey To understand the Marathi press, one needs to appreciate two cities-Mumbai (Bombay) and Pune (Poona). Mumbai is the Manhattan of India-a buzzing, multi- lingual magnet of an island. As well as the industrial and commercial focus of India, it is the base for the advertising industry and for Indias two biggest newspaper chains, The Times of India and The Indian Express. Pune, on the other hand, is Maharashtras Boston (indeed, both have brahmins) where history, culture and more cultivated ways of life are supposed to prevail. Mumbais magnetism has meant that it is not a solely, or perhaps even predominantly, Marathi city. Migrants come from all over India to seek their fortunes in†¦show more content†¦It ran training camps for its journalists, promotions and cultural events for its readers and letters to the editor on its front page. Parulekar converted Sakal into a private limited company in 1948, with himself, his French wife, their daughter and one or two other shareholders. When he died in 1973, he left the paper with practices and traditions that wore well. It survived the first shocks of Indias revolution in newspaper technology and carried on for more than 10 years. But he also left a complicated ownership structure: a minority of shares went to his wife and daughter but most went to individual trustees and to a trust. Widow and daughter do not appear to have got on well with the trustees and the trust, which put their shares on the market at the end of 1984. The Pawar family, whose best known member was Maharashtra politician, Sharad Pawar (chief minister, 1978-80, 1988-90, 1993-95), bought them over the opposition of Parulekars wife and daughter who went to the courts. At the same time, the rapid changes overtaking the newspaper industry, and the death of the long-serving editor, S.G. Mungekar in 1985, reinforced the sense that Sakal was at a turning point. The sale and renovation of Sakal illustrate the increasingly tight interlock between capit alism and newspapers. 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