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Photos: A peek into magazine covers of yore
Collecting magazines is their obsession. Naresh Dudani, 65, a retired journalist; Deepak Rao, a Mumbai police historian; and Nikhil Prasad Ojha, 50, a management consultant have been spending their free time tracking down years of back issues of their favourite Indian magazines. They offer a window into the past that feels urgent, still-alive, and often strangely current too. Dudani alone has a collection of 25,000 editions. Here’s a look at some.
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A February 1983 issue of The Illustrated Weekly of India, priced at ₹3, incidentally, asks – Can The Congress (I) Put Its House In Order?
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A December 1989 issue of The Telegraph magazine turns the lens on auteur Satyajit Ray and his view of the world.
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A special issue of Femina from August 1975 promises vital tips in a cover story titled How To Look Young, Stay Young, Longer. Didn’t that headline print again just this week?
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In June 1983, The Illustrated Weekly of India declares: Computers in India: Crossed Wires? Computers were making headway. By this time, Infosys had been founded, the IITs were offering their first BTech degrees in computer science. Wipro was marketing Intel’s 8086 minicomputer. But infrastructure was lagging and would continue to lag for decades.
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A 1990 issue of Sunday magazine, with a cover story on Dhirubhai Ambani. Can Ambani Survive? We know the answer to that one now. Kashmir: Is It Too Late, asks another headline on the cover. To this one, there are still no answers.
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