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Afternoon no more

The 22-year-old Afternoon Despatch and Courier, once a Bombay institution, suspended publication in September 2007 when Kamal Morarka, chairman, dismissed Farzana Contractor from the post of CEO (chief executive officer). Contractor, wife of charismatic founder editor, the late Beh­ram, stormed Afternoon House building, near Flora Fountain, with a band of supporters on the morning of September 25, 2007 and locked herself up in the building, reported the Hindustan Times (HT) of September 28, 2007. She explained her stand in an impassioned article on the front page of the Afternoon’s edition dated September 26, 2007. The next day Morarka issued a......



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