The World’s Last Handwritten Newspaper?

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The World’s Last Handwritten Newspaper?

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Showing rare devotion to the craft of journalism, lifelong staffers at The Musalman in Chennai, India, have been publishing a daily newspaper penned in Urdu calligraphy since 1927. The kicker? No one has ever quit the paper, laboring until death and often passing their responsibilities down to their next of kin. —KDG

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