Chitralekha Group gears up to launch the 61st anniversary issue

With the stupendous success of Chitralekha's anniversary issue last year, the Group is geared to launch yet another power packed 61st anniversary issue of Chitralekha later this week. Themed on the topic "India 2020" the issue has contributions by experts and stalwarts like Shashi Tharoor, Uday Kotak, Kalpana Morparia, Rashmi Bansal, Naveen Jindal, Chetan Bhagat, Farhan Akhtar, Gaurav Mashruwala, Nikhil Gandhi, Dr. Tejas Patel, Dr. Prakash Kothari amongst others who have shared their perspective on the country in 2020.

The issue also houses the second edition of Chitralekha's "Gujarati Power List" which comprises superstars from the fields of politics, business, corporate, music, fine arts, cinema, sports, media and social service, who have gone beyond their own areas of comfort and influenced the larger society.

Moreover, the issue carries a special compilation by Saregama of 61 remarkable songs by nine musical legends namely, Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Hemant Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey, Mohd. Rafi, Mukesh and Talat Mahmood. Each copy of the magazine will also carry a First Day Cover (postage stamp) on Chitralekha released by the Department of Post, Ministry of Telecom & IT in April 2011.

Chitralekha Group had humble beginnings when its flagship Gujarati magazine, Chitralekha was launched in 1950 by Vaju Kotak, with a print run of 10,101 copies. Today, the much revered news weekly boasts of over 240,000 copies and is almost a fixture in a Gujarati household.