srijeda, 13.04.2022.
If nostalgia were to grip you, the best place to whet
If nostalgia were to grip you, the best place to whet it would be to read the coffee table tome that Godrej brought out — ‘With Great Truth And Regard: The Story Of The Typewriter In India’ — containing delightful tales about typewriters including one about how a crime was solved on the basis of a peculiar broken head of a letter in one machine offering a forensic breakthrough. That reminds me of the time I forgot to pick up my portable from the back of a taxi in Barbados and went through hell for three days until I met the coroner of the island, a doctor from Andhra, who had a strong word with the cops. Portable No. They came in various sizes and shapes and were best bought abroad where the designer Olivetti was all the rage, its colours and contours so different from the utilitarian Remingtons and Underwoods.But then he does write to Remington in 1928 — "Rem. Remington & Sons purchased rights. Christopher L. The ‘qwerty’ is here to stay regardless of how China industry air pump fancy or powerful may be the computers and devices we use nowadays with even the condensed virtual keyboards on the mobile phones presenting the 26 English alphabets in the same quirky order.It was, however, the portable typewriter that was the liberating influence in the life of writers and journalists, of course. In turn, the police, always best friends with the coroner for forensic reasons, put the heat on the taxi ranks and one fine evening the reception at the resort had my favourite red typewriter back for me, delivered by the anonymous taxi driver I didn’t get to meet even to offer him the price of a drink at the pub for returning a precious machine. In the same manner, the typewriter had also become such an instrument of official power, with its user representing a bulwark between the citizen and the government, its imagery as powerful as that of the red and green tapes on the ubiquitous official file. Sholes and Carlos Glidden developed the machine with a keyboard, platen and wooden space bar1876 Mark Twain wrote the first ever book written with a typewriter, but there is a dispute — is it The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or Life on the Mississippi1902 First electric typewriter was made by George Blickensderfer1937 Rajagopalachari (Rajaji) founded the Stenographers Guild1990s Indian firm Godrej & Boyce became the world’s largest producer of manual typewriters2011 Godrej stopped making themGANDHI’S DILEMMATechnology posed a dilemma for MK Gandhi.
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The police got to know that one of the persons acquainted
"It was on January 9, that the victims parents registered a complaint with Navghar police station that their 4-year-old child was kidnapped by some unknown person from near their house when she was playing," PTI quoted SP (rural) Mahesh Patil as saying. The police got to know that one of the persons acquainted with the family had committed the crime," he said.According to reports, the men lured the child away with a chocolate, took turns to assault her and then killed and dumped her body in a swamp.Thane: Rural police on Saturday claimed to have solved the murder case of a four-year-old girl from Bhayander, who was kidnapped and found buried in a nearby nullah, by arresting three persons..The accused were arrested on Friday, said the police. What’s worse, they then went off to enjoy a meal of fish and rice. A fourth rape accused is still absconding, police added.They said the accused allegedly took the victim to Azad Nagar, raped her and then gagged her to death.A 24-year-old accused who was known to the family of the victim during interrogation admitted that he had raped the girl and killed her, police said."In the evening of January 12, the body of the missing girl was found buried in the nullah near Azad Nagar slums. In the post-mortem report there were marks of wounds on the head of the girl, police said.While the accused was killing the girl his friends dug a pit in the nullah and buried fountain pump the girl, the officer said, adding, it was when a cat nibbled the arm those nearby came to know about the body was lying in the pit and informed police who exhumed the body
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