Friday 10 September 2021

Shri Nathhi's Picture in the Hitavada

 


Shri Narsikar and Shri Tanksale of Nagpur top all devotees in bringing out a fantastic picture of Shri Nathji in the Hitawada, a leading daily of Nagpur. The picture is printed on the first page of its Sunday edition. The picture has been beautifully coloured in green, yellow and pink by Shri Narsikar’s photographer friend. Shri Nathji is shown in a green achkan, wearing a yellow turban, and a countenance that is pink in colour. It is the same picture that Priya Nath had given to the Indian Express for the Sapru House function, except that it has been beautifully coloured. Both Shri Nathji and Priya Nath are in raptures about the magnificent work done by Shri Narsikar and Shri Tanksale, and Shri Nathji’s blessings go out towards the Hitavada newspaper.

On Januery 2th, 1984, HH Shri Pyiya Nathji also sends a personal typed letter to Shri Tanksale, congratulation him for publishing the photo in Hitawada. Shri Tanksale ji has always preserved that letter very carefully with him and photo of that same letter can be seen bellow - 

Hitavada Flies from Nagpur

Shri Nathji’s devotee Rekha Dodeja narrates a miracle in Delhi where the newspaper Hitvada does not come at all.

She says: “I was standing outside my home thinking intensely of Shri Nathji, when a piece of paper came blowing in the wind and fell beside me.

“It was one page of the Nagpur newspaper, Hitavada, which carried Shri Nathji's coloured portrait!

“Nagpur is about fifteen hundred miles away–how could the paper have been blown over by the winds over such a large distance?

“I came running to Shri Nathji's place–only to find that he had received the same picture by post from Nagpur!”


The Hitavada is an English daily newspaper circulating mainly in Central parts of India.  It was founded in 1911 by freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale in Nagpur. in 1978 the newspaper was taken over by Purohit and Company, owned by Banwarilal Purohit, the former Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Nagpur and present governor of Tamil Nadu. It was the English daily of Nagpur  In 2011, it completed its 100 years and celebrated its centenary festival which was inaugurated by Pratibha Patil, then President of India. The Hitavada, today, is the largest selling English broadsheet daily of Central India with Nagpur and Raipur. It has a daily circulation of over 200000 copies across the Central India with maximum 130000 in Nagpur city alone.

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