Although I was overall the Second Prize Winner, my essay was adjudged as best for that topic and published in the magazine of September 1993. I had written on the topic ‘India of My Dreams’. The best essays on all the three topics were published and prizes awarded. There were three different topics and a participant was supposed to write on any one of them. Ltd., New Delhi for their monthly magazine, Competition Success Review, the largest selling educational magazine of India with a now annual readership of more than a million. I had participated in an all-India essay contest organised by Competition Review Pvt. But obviously, there was a strong and valid reason about it and I must bring to light as to why so many letters poured in for me. I had already been receiving letters in sealed envelopes and continued to receive them for about a month. All of them belonged to Class V thus they must have been in the age group 9-11.
In fact, they were all children studying in a school in the state of then-Andhra Pradesh, now bifurcated into two: Andhra Pradesh and Telengana. However, what actually surprised me was not the number of the postcards, but the age of the senders. Never before in my life did I receive even two postcards at a time. During those days, it used to cost around 15 paise per piece or £0.00163 of today’s worth. Postcard has all along been the cheapest mode of communication in our country. Postcard, the answer to the clue of 1d, reminded me of the days of September 1993, when I received by mail more than fifty postcards within a span of two to three days.
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I now have the pleasure of presenting to you a full review of the same and would be delighted to have your valuable feedback. A slightly tougher Sunday puzzle of Dada, but overall an enjoyable one to solve. This puzzle was published on 28 th Aug 2022īD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **** Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3175 A full review by Rahmat Ali
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