by A. J. PHILIP
The privilege of reading the newspaper first was my grandfather’s. And once he started reading it, he would not put it down, till he completed it. I would, therefore, run down the flight of stairs to pick up the paper from where the hawker would leave it, after alerting us. While returning, I would read the popular cartoon strip “Mandrake, the Magician” by Lee Falk. This was one chore I happily did day after day. On weekends, the “Malayala Manorama Weekly” that carried an assortment of regular columns would arrive. I would instantly go to the last page where the cartoon column “Bobanum Mollyum” (Boban and Molly) by Toms appeared. Boban and Molly were brilliant, though naughty and troublesome, siblings. Their comments were sharp and intelligent and, therefore, memorable. Even after five decades, I still remember many of them.
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