On every World News Day (September 28), amid the loud calls to celebrate journalism, the death knell tolls even louder for the print format of newspaper. The demise is being precipitated by the ever-morphing Proteus of technology. We are the witness of media transformation. It's not just a change of format; it's a cultural metamorphosis with far-reaching implications.

It's not just an issue of content and container. It's a matter of mental and physical health of the consumer. The printed newspaper, once a cornerstone of public life and democratic discourse, is actually going to be the last civic campfire.

It's quite disheartening to see the newspapers thinning as if starved on an involuntary diet. The pullouts have been shelved. The opinion pages have shrunk to half. Some newspapers have abolished their editorials. The abolition marks a deleterious trend that authenticity and institutional ideological stand on major issues are needed no more.

Circulation of newspapers in paper has plummeted to an all-time low, as electronic and social........

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