Blitz was a popular investigative weekly tabloid newspaper or newsmagazine published and edited by Russi Karanjia from Bombay. Started in 1941, it was India's first weekly tabloid and focussed on investigative journalism and political news. It was published in English, and with editions in Hindi, Urdu and Marathi languages. History First published on 1 February 1941, it was a pioneer in investigative journalism in India Sudheendra Kulkarni, an Indian politician and journalist who worked with Blitz, said that the decision to launch Blitz had been taken over a cup of tea. Three patriotic journalists — B. V. Nadkarni, Benjamin Horniman and Karanjia himself — sat at Wayside Inn, a restaurant located near the historical Kala Ghoda area in Mumbai to conceptualise the paper. The paper was launched from an old Apollo Street building in the Fort locality of Mumbai, then known as Bombay. Its inaugural issue introduced the tabloid as Our BLITZ, India's BLITZ against Hitler. It claimed a circulation of 20,000 within four months of launch, and later said it had a readership of one million some 25 years later. Prominent journalists and associates Cartoonist R. K. Laxman's early cartoons would be published in Blitz, and so would Abu Abraham's. Cartoonist–cum–architect Cecil Lancelot Dawes contributed heavily to Blitz. His daughter Shirley Dawes also worked for Karanjia for many years before migrating to the West. Noted writer K. A. Abbas wrote the popular column "Last Page" for Blitz, which ran for over 40 years. Journalist P. Sainath worked as deputy editor with Blitz for over a decade before he started writing about rural poverty and winning the Magsaysay Award. Blitz was founded Karanjia, who had entered journalism with the then British-owned The Times of India, had then briefly edited The Sunday Standard and the short-lived Morning Standard. On his four-man team besides himself were "Dinkar V. Nadkarni, who had earned a reputation in journalism by penning sensational crime stories in the Bombay Sentinel, edited by the veteran B.G. Horniman; Zahir Babar Kureishi, who wrote a popular column under the pen-name of ZABAK; and Nadir Boman-Behram, who was to look after the advertising and business side of things." Among the prominent leftwing columnists of Blitz were Ramesh Sanghvi, A. Raghavan, and K.A. Abbas. Reputation Blitz has been described as featuring "sensational accounts of national and international skulduggery" and a "spunky tabloid’s loud and screaming captions and telling photographs". Part of its