MAHESH KAPASI & CO E-Mail:maheshkapasi49 @ gmail.com
Chartered Accountants Phone: 2686 8147
B-49, Gulmohar Park,
MAHESH KAPASI New Delhi-110 049
M. Com., LL.B., FCA, FICWA, FCS
Ex –Member: AMIMA, AMIBM, ACEA (London), MIIA (U.S.A.)
Website: www.caclubindia.com/homepage/maheshkapasi
(Record Holder for “Most letters to the editor“
in LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS 2009)
Reference No: 0049/LBR/04/09-10 Dated: April 11, 2009
This is just to inform you that my name in appears in ‘Limca Book of Records’ 2009 edition at page 71 in the category – ‘Communications-Print-Most letters to the editor’:
“Most letters to the editors” i.e., 8,909 letters in 304 Newspapers and magazines since 1974. (Third Place)”.Of this 3,411 Letters have appeared in MULTI-CITY EDITIONS and 2,885 letters in newspapers with a Circulation having more than 50,000.
“Most in a month -79 in March 2007”;
Most in a single newspaper in a year: Published 146 letters in Central Chronicle between July 10, 2006 and July 9, 2007.
Longest: Published a 960 worded letter in Indian Nation, erstwhile English daily from Patna, Bihar on Dec. 3, 1996.
My latest tally is 9403 letters in 311 newspapers and magazines, for which Analysis is as follows: LIST OF more than 100 Letters in Newspapers and Magazines (22 in NUMBER): The Analysis for my 9403 letters in 311Newspapers and magazines is as follows:
LIST OF more than 100 Letters in Newspapers and Magazines (21 in NUMBER):
1. FINANCIAL EXPRESS (450); 2. BUSINESS STANDARD (440); 3. PIONEER (412); 4.Erstwhile DELHI MID DAY (374); 5.FREE PRESS JOURNAL (317); 6. CENTRAL CHRONICLE (334); 7.ECONOMIC TIMES (256); 8.SCREEN (246); 8. HINDUSTAN TIMES (256); 9.ErstwhileEVENING NEWS (227); 10. Erstwhile NATIONAL HERALD(224) ; 11.INDIAN EXPRESS(209); 12.TIMES OF INDIA(189) ; 13.Erstwhile INDIAN NATION(159) ; 14.TELEGRAPH (159); 15.SUNDAY MID DAY(134) ;16.STATESMAN(127) ; 17. SUN MAGAZINE (125); 18.DEBONAIR MAGAZINE (127); 19.BUSINESS INDIA (138); 20. THE WEEK (125); 21. TEHELKA (123). 22. SAHARA TIME (111)
1. FINANCIAL EXPRESS (450); 2. BUSINESS STANDARD (440); 3. PIONEER (412); 4.Erstwhile DELHI MID DAY (374); 5.FREE PRESS JOURNAL (317); 6. CENTRAL CHRONICLE (334); 7.ECONOMIC TIMES (256); 8.SCREEN (246); 8. HINDUSTAN TIMES (256); 9.ErstwhileEVENING NEWS (227); 10. Erstwhile NATIONAL HERALD(224) ; 11.INDIAN EXPRESS(209); 12.TIMES OF INDIA(189) ; 13.Erstwhile INDIAN NATION(159) ; 14.TELEGRAPH (159); 15.SUNDAY MID DAY(134) ;16.STATESMAN(127) ; 17. SUN MAGAZINE (125); 18.DEBONAIR MAGAZINE (127); 19.BUSINESS INDIA (138); 20. THE WEEK (125); 21. TEHELKA (123). 22. SAHARA TIME (111)
Other Records are:
- Average published letters in a month is 24
- Published more than 100 letters in 16 newspapers and 6 magazines – including more than 200 letters in 11 newspapers and more than 300 letters in 6 newspapers and more than 400 letters in 3 newspapers.
- All published letters in a column / issue by one author. In a magazine all the letters (Eight in number) published – were written by me.
- I am only four-in-one contributor to the press-contributing Letters, Articles, Poems and Jokes.
Also to my credit there are 105 Prize Winning letters; 86 Articles; 280 Poems – one in Australian Magazine and 66 Jokes published so far.
(Mahesh Kapasi)
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