In the 1970's there were three popular magazines..The Illustrated Weekly, Mirror and Caravan. Each of these magazines had a good circulation and covered current news and related affairs.The Illustrated Weekly was of larger dimensions with few pages and smaller fonts..the Mirror resembled a small book ..and the Caravan of a typical magazine size.
My father used to bring these books home ..sometimes all of them at one go as he was a member of a magazine club within his department in ITI(Indian Telephone Industries). I remember the Ilustrated Weekly had carried a major article about Amitabh Bachchan much before he became a popular star. My father had a skill of pulling the right kind of chords for his children when it came to educational support. He used to support us with the right kind of inputs.He has bought for us a dictionary called the "KINGSWAY MODERN DICTIONARY" A illustrated dictionary small in size but very informative.
I remember these three magazines for their own reasons. The Illustrated weekly for its news, Caravan for its cartoons and the Mirror for its pen pals section..there used to be an ocean of addresses in the Mirror magazine of Pen pals.
During this era I had a pen pal by name TARIQ NOMANI FROM KANPUR. Iam not able to forget him. In spite of many decades I still remember his name. I found him on FaceBook but for some reason he did not respond to my friend request....I even had some message interaction with his son on FB.
For some reason these three magazines stopped circulation ..may be with the advent of TV they became redundant.
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