Put the cartoon back on the front page: Kalam to media/"On the first page, when you see a cartoon, it puts a smile on your face.

Put the cartoon back on the front page: Kalam to media

Last Updated: Sunday, June 24, 2007, 00:00

New Delhi, June 24: Put the cartoon back on the front page of newspapers and bring a smile to the face of the reader. This is President A P J Abdul Kalam's advice to the Indian media.

"On the first page, when you see a cartoon, it puts a smile on your face. The rest of the news is about things like rape, theft and killing. The man or the child or the woman is happy to see the cartoon. You must bring back the cartoon on the first page," Kalam said during an interaction with journalists at its headquarters here.

"A man or a woman should smile in the morning. Don't make him or her unhappy," he said.

The President recalled that as a young person, the first thing he would look at when he picked up a newspaper would be the cartoon on the front page. "What I loved on the first page was the cartoon," he said.

Kalam said the editors might love political news, but people hate it.

The President also said mediapersons need to see beyond the capital for news. "Delhi is not the only place where things are happening," he said.

Bureau Report