Shanti Dut

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Shanti Dut (Peaceful Messenger) is a Hindi language newspaper published weekly in Fiji and is part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It is one of the oldest non-English language newspapers owned by the corporation having started in 1935. It first editor was Pundit Gurudayal Sharma. [1]

Its circulation in 1995 was 10,750. [2] but the U.S. Embassy gives the current circulation as 13,000.[3]

From 1981 to 1987 its editor was Mahendra Chand Vinod.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kanwal, J. S. (1980). A Hundred years of Hindi in Fiji. Suva, Fiji: Fiji Teachers Union, p. 93. 
  2. ^ Encyclopedia of the Nations  :: Asia and Oceania  :: Fiji. Retrieved on 2007-07-12.
  3. ^ Fiji Media Fiji Press. Retrieved on 2007-07-12.