Kolkata woman launches newspapers in Toronto

Kolkata, Oct 11 (UNI) 'Amar Kolkata' and 'Eastern Horizon', two fortnightly tabloids in Bengali and English respectively, were launched from Toronto in Canada during Durga Puja by a woman entrepreneur who hails from the city.

Booboon Biswas, who was into event management during the 1980s and 1990s herea, migrated to Canada with her husband recently and deaded to bring out a newspaper from the Canadian city which has a large Indian population.

While Biswas brought out the Bengali edition with stories on Kolkata's Durga puja to the Singur turmoil, Sourav Ganguly and Bengali Bollywood stars like Bipasa Basu, the english Eastern Horizon was more focused on national and diaspora articles.

''We want to give a mix of Bollywood, Sports and raging Indian issues. Also we want to give the readers here a forum to articulate,'' Biswas told UNI over phone.

''Since people come to know the news in every corner of the globe instantly from TV and Internet now, my focus is not as much on hard news as features and other kinds of articles,'' she explained.

''The copies were sold instantly here at our Durga Puja stalls and now begins the task of keeping up the show,'' Ms Biswas said.

''It is an independant effort and people have so far responded generously here,'' she added.

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