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RK Saboo
Ex-president, Rotary International
In 1960, I came to Chandigarh from Calcutta (now Kolkata) for setting up a factory with German collaboration. Coming from a metropolis with a long history to an absolutely brand-new city with a population of 75,000 was somewhat daunting. However, business takes us anywhere. Chandigarh had only one cinema house, one proper restaurant and one major hotel. To stay on the air map of India, there was only one commercial flight once a week. Thus, it was not surprising that there was only one English newspaper, The Tribune. It was the solitary source of local, national or international news. It was also the search engine. Whenever I and my wife were looking for a house on rent, we scrolled The Tribune’s classified advertisement columns. The Tribune had become a companion with the morning cup of tea.