The Equator Line 20: Before The Fadeout

Magazine of the New World The Equator Line is to India what The New Yorker is to America, Cicero to Germany and Granta to cerebral, incisive and entertaining as well. TEL revives an old tradition of journalism which combines new writing with a close account of what is happening in areas like business, culture, cinema and lifestyle. The great periodicals of the past threw up new writers and triggered fresh debates about many issues. With the advent of 24x7 television periodicals lost their predominant position in intellectual discourse, in benchmarking our culture. A ‘breaking-news’ fever swept through India. The beauty of good writing was no longer recommendation enough. Newspapers carried more pictures and less copy. News magazines readjusted themselves to the television era with a new snappy, sharp look. And in the deluge of visual news the sensitive, sharp, upwardly mobile man seemed lost. Nothing was put into perspective for him. Nothing really tested his intelligence. The delight of surveying an altogether new horizon across the serried lines of good prose was missing. TEL is a journey to rediscover the glory of the written word. Promoted by Palimpsest Publishing House, the quarterly magazine offers a brilliant spread – clinical analysis of trends, new fiction, deep examination of political events, gender issues, latest in diplomacy, spirituality, diaspora, the remote and the exotic. The candid camera captures sensitive images in keeping with the theme of the number. When repetitive surface news grates on your nerves TEL takes you on a trip to the land of good writing with an impressive line-up of well-known writers. Waiting for your flight at the airport or in a hotel room in an unfamiliar city, the latest issue of TEL will help you rediscover your world in a new light.