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India's News Calligraphers Do It on Deadline The Musalman is possibly the last handwritten newspaper in the world. Four professional calligraphers spend three hours on each page every single day to put out this daily paper. While it's a Muslim newspaper, it's also a beacon of liberalism in South Asia, employing both women and non-Muslims. Two of the four katibs (calligraphers) are women and the chief reporter is Hindu. Indian royalty and poets often visit the paper to offer content and accolades. The following images portray The Musalman's modest office as the paper's staff puts together the next day's newspaper. Left: Every day in Chennai, India, professional calligraphers called katibs handwrite The Musalman newspaper, established in 1927. Each page is written in Urdu, a language spoken by a small minority of the Wity's population. Photo: Scott Carney

For somebody who has terrible hand writting (me) this is just amazing. With such care and advanced skills, who needs computers?

do they draw the images also?

There are people in south asia who still write with special ink pens that are made of wood called " Kalam " they dip the tip of those kalams into the ink and write in the same manner in school in poor rural areas.

P.S I can read the highlighted text above the line in the first pic its saying something like " Defence measures Germany something "

That's awesome. Very cool

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