ONE: The newspaper that you are holding in your hands was founded by the father of the nation, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Before it started publication from Karachi on August 14, 1947, it was published from an Indian city. Can you name it?

TWO: Tribune, a well-known nationalist paper, moved from Lahore to Ambala after Partition. Its building and some equipment were taken over by the Pakistan Times. Progressive Papers, which was owned by Mian Iftikharuddin, had three invaluable publications. The group’s flagship Pakistan Times was edited by Faiz Ahmed Faiz. The Urdu paper Imroz was edited by Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, while Syed Sibte Hasan edited the finest Urdu weekly that we saw in the second half of the last century. It was called Lail-o-Nahar. Which military dictator took the control of the group?

THREE: The Illustrated Weekly of India, once a popular English language weekly, published by The Times of India group, ceased publication towards the end of the last century. Among its editors was a columnist, scholar, humorist and novelist. Can you name him?

FOUR: Before the electronic system of transferring entire pages became possible it was difficult to bring out the same newspaper from two cities. In those days Pakistan Times was brought out from Lahore and Rawalpindi. Name the English language daily which was published simultaneously from Karachi and Dhaka (which was then spelt as Dacca)?

FIVE: Newspapers these days also have electronic editions that you can read on the internet. Most e-papers can be accessed free of charge. Here we have one example of a news website becoming a weekly newspaper in print. Edited by the well-known Indian journalist Tarun Tejpal, his website came under fire by the Indian government for exposing corruption in defence purchases. Name the website and the weekly print edition.

SIX: Advertising finances newspapers and television. While it is the only source of revenue for television networks, in the case of newspapers and magazines it is in almost all cases a major revenue earner. Which is the other source of income?

SEVEN: Radio didn’t report World War I because regular broadcasting started after the war ended. Television gave limited coverage to the Vietnam War but live reporting came in the nineties. Which channel gave live coverage to which war?

EIGHT: Which was the one invention that popularised radio to a very large extent, making it much smaller, and, of course, portable?

NINE: Convergence of technology started with desktop publishing, but it reached its zenith with the arrival of internet. Thus you can read a newspaper, listen to the radio, download music, watch a movie, make a phone call and watch television programmes, to name a few. Now the question: what major advantage an e-paper has over the printed newspaper?

TEN: The man we are now talking about is a tycoon in the communications industry. He set up the Cable News Network and was named Man of the Year by the Time magazine. He has had several achievements to his credit. Incidentally, Jane Fonda, the famous Hollywood star, was his third wife. His name?

                                                            ANSWERS

(1) Delhi (2) Ayub Khan (3) Khushwant Singh (4) Morning News (5) Tehelka dot com and Tehelka Weekly (6) Circulation (7) CNN (8) Transistor (9) It can be updated (10) Ted Turner.

— Compiled by AN