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`When police opened the fire'

NEW DELHI JAN. 30. Taking a break from mundane politics, the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, today took a trip down memory lane recalling the days of journalism in the absence of Hindi news agencies.

Reminiscing about his stint with the journal Crisis, Mr. Vajpayee said that in the absence of a Hindi news agency those days, journalists faced a lot of difficulty translating from English and one of his colleagues in the Hindi edition literally translated a story about police ``opening fire'' in the frontier province.

``Pulis ne aag khol diya (Police opened the fire) was the Hindi translation,'' Mr. Vajpayee said amid peals of laughter from the audience.

He was speaking after presenting the Maj. Ramprasad Poddar Seventh National Award to the founder of the country's first and now defunct Hindi news agency, `Hindustan Samachar' and the veteran RSS activist, Baleshwar Aggarwal. The award, instituted by the Agroha Vikas Trust, carried a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh, a trophy and a citation. — PTI

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