Tushar Gandhi to grace PrintWeek India Awards Night

Tushar Gandhi had addressed a gathering of print professionals and enthusiasts at a PrintWeek India event held at Mumbai’s Max Mueller Bhavan last year, here is an excerpt from that speech which highlights Gandhiji's love for print.

“Printing has been very integral to my family. For their honeymoon, my grandparents went to Phoenix Printing Press, which printed Indian Opinion. Many decades later, my father, Arun Manilal Gandhi, started a suburban weekly, Suburban Echo, which he edited and published.

I was the printer, who made the pages, got them printed, and also distributed the weekly. On the third day after my wedding, I was driving in a tempo with stacks of Suburban Echo and dropping it at all the newspaper stands in the western suburbs of Mumbai.

Printing does run in our genes.

Bapu’s three sons worked in some way or the other with the Indian Opinion, either as a publisher, or as a manager, or as a printer. My grandparents worked as printers for the Indian Opinion; my father and his two sisters worked in every department of the Indian Opinion unit in South Africa, which included composing, pagination and everything else. The first machine at Phoenix was a flatbed. Bapu started printing with that machine.”

PrintWeek India will use the unique opportunity provided by 350 top print entrepreneurs at the PrintWeek India Awards Night to celebrate the print legacy of India’s ‘Father of the Nation’ Mahatma Gandhi.

Awards ceremony will also be aired on NDTV Profit/Prime channel. To book your seats, contact Monica Rohra: monica@haymarket.co.in; telephone: +91 22 43025008.