WHY AFTERNOON? Let me dedicate this issue to the legendary Behram Contractor, or Busybee as he was popularly known who was an institution in himself. He founded The Afternoon Despatch & Courier in March 1985 at age 55 literally with no resources. His so-called financial backers came along when his brainchild was a runaway success. Behram is not in our midst today, but he continues to live in our hearts. I wanted to re-launch The Afternoon to do justice with the newspaper, its avid readers and pay tributes to its founder-editor. Ironically, there is a glut of newspapers today which are owned by vested interests. Afternoon Voice is, additionally, an attempt to establish a banner which is purely owned, executed and circulated by intellectual think tanks and journalists. This city-centric tabloid will spur your appetite for a wide variety of news ranging from crime to corruption, slums and ghettoes to the dazzling make-believe world of movies, hair-raising incidents of human rights violation to the power syndicates that influence the destiny of billions of people inhabiting this 'unredeemable basket case'. Vaidehi sachin
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