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On the greeting of New Year’s day, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) State president Syed Sadikali Shihab Thangal received an unexpected telephone telephone from a enactment idiosyncratic successful Kannur. The caller congratulated him connected Mr. Thangal’s signed nonfiction connected bidding farewell to 2025 published connected the edit leafage of BJP’s mouthpiece Janmabhumi.
Although confused astatine first, Mr. Thangal soon realised that it was neither a prank nor a misunderstanding. Instead, it turned retired to beryllium a New Year’s mix-up by the Janmabhumi successful its Kannur-Kasaragod edition.
For Janmabhumi readers successful Kannur and Kasaragod, it was a jarring commencement to the New Year. For journalists, however, it became a faux pas destined to beryllium remembered, and laughed about, for a agelong time.
“It was a method mix-up during the printing process,” said Ganesh Mohan, Janmabhumi’s Kannur bureau chief, who is successful complaint of the edition.
Chandrika edit and op-ed pages successful Kannur connected the New Year’s day.
The mix-up occurred astatine a backstage CTP (computer-to-plate) centre, wherever integer paper leafage files are straight transferred onto printing plates without the usage of film. At the Kannur CTP centre, which prepares plates for newspapers similar Janmabhumi and Chandrika, the sheet for Chandrika’s editorial leafage was inadvertently dispatched on with the Janmabhumi plates.
The blunder went unnoticed astatine Pratheeksha Printers, wherever newspapers similar Madhyamam, Suprabhatam, Veekshanam and Janmabhumi are printed. “Luckily, determination was thing straight targeting the BJP connected the Chandrika editorial leafage connected the day,” said a BJP idiosyncratic successful Kasaragod, consoling himself.
Masthead too
The leafage 4, carrying the Chandrika masthead arsenic good arsenic the imprint line, included the editorial connected the disintegration of the Left Democratic Front and 3 sentiment pieces by Mr. Thangal, M.K. Muneer and Mohammed Shah focused connected bidding farewell to 2025, reflections connected Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s works, and the realities of the Yelahanka incidental respectively.
“More than reaching a larger audience, I americium gladsome I could link with a antithetic conception of readers. This was genuinely a New Year surprise, and I volition decidedly retrieve it adjacent year,” said Mr. Thangal successful a lighter vein.
For Chandrika exertion Kamal Varadoor, it was an unexpected dose of publicity from a rival newspaper. “Getting a wider readership for our editorial leafage connected New Year’s Day is simply a bully omen. It shows the days up are brighter,” helium said, laughing.
Errors and goof-ups successful the media, particularly successful print, are not uncommon. But a enactment mouthpiece publishing the editorial leafage of a rival party’s paper is wide seen successful journalistic circles arsenic an uncommon blooper.
