Announcing five winners of the Sunday Column quiz

With the industry in lockdown, this week (12 April), the Sunday Column presented a series of brain-teasers to share the knowledge of the country’s print history. We asked why Fort William in Calcutta was important for printing in India, we asked who Betab was (not the 1980s Bollywood film, but the Parsee-Hindustani playwright), we asked about typography and William Cary, and so on.

And we are happy to report that you all read the column.

At the end of the piece, we asked our readers a question: ‘What is the name of the first litho press which was established in Patna by an East India Company employee?’

And, we are happy to announce that we have not one or two, but five winners, all of whom came up with the correct answer.

The correct answer was, of course, the Behar Amateur Lithographic Press, established in 1826.

The following are the erudite winners, all of whom will receive a surprise gift.   

The winners of the Noel D’Cunha Sunday Column quiz:

• Name: Chandrakant Gadhia
  Company name: Marks Emballage
  City: Chandigarh
   
• Name: Manu Choudhury
  Company name: CDC Printers
  City: Kolkata
   
• Name: Mit Paresh Shah
  Company name: Paper N Films International
  City: Mumbai
   
• Name: Pankaj Shah
  Company name: Star Printers
  City: Mumbai
   
• Name: Priya Singh
  Company name: Hachette India
  City: Gurgaon

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Sunday Column: Test your knowledge of Indian print history during the lockdown!