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	“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.” Charles Lamb, 1833 “Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I’d love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.” Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker “I often wonder what future historians will say about us. One sentence will suffice to describe modern man: he fornicated and he read newspapers.” Albert Camus, French novelist, dramatist, philosopher, 1956

S P Singh came to journalism in early ’90s, joining The Press Trust of India in Delhi where he worked till 1998. After a year-long fling in Punjab, he joined The Indian Express in Chandigarh in 2000, extensively writing on Punjab politics, society, culture and religion.

In 2004, he joined The Times of India in Chandigarh where he worked till early 2006.

He lives in the vicinity of Chandigarh with his wife and two dogs – Ginger and Garlic.

If society was differently organized and peer pressures had a different dynamics, he would have chosen to become a raconteur but since that choice is not available, he currently splits his time between the written and the spoken word. Ordinarily, it is called reading and conversing.

S P Singh studied in Ludhiana’s Punjabi-medium government-run schools, sitting in the classrooms on a mat, cross-legged, till eighth grade before progressing to another government-run school with rickety benches. English alphabet used to be taught from Class VI and he never studied the language beyond Class X.

He has spent a lifetime struggling to write in a language which is not his own, and seeks indulgence for the many flaws.

His primary interests include words. Spoken and written, some left unspoken, loose and bound, hidden and flashed, and then some writ large along the footsteps of life.■

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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. But, if words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention. Click on any below to find out:

New York Times
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The Guardian
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Beirut Daily Star
Boston Globe
Moscow Times
The New Yorker
Al-Ahram Weekly
Arab News
Dawn
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The Hindu
The Indian Express
The Asian Age
The Tribune

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