retained its normal character of catering to the troops in peace and carried its usual features. "The London Letter", a regular feature in the 1930s, included items of common British interest and as early as 8 April 1939 the news of BBC televising by its mobile unit a boxing event, was carried by Fauji Akhbar. With coverage of war news the circulation of Fauji Akhbar went up by leaps and bounds and at one time exceeded even three lakh copies and a supplement on war news had to be issued. It is probably unknown to many that during the Second World War an Overseas Edition was started from Cairo for the Indian troops fighting in Middle East, Africa and in East European countries and was edited by Colonel ANS Murthi. The image of the British Raj persisted throughout till 1947 and the Viceroy’s addresses were extensively covered. Whatever be the occasion, Mr. Winston Churchill's appeals and exhortations to the troops, expectedly, found a good coverage. The Indian Freedom Movement and Swadeshi launched by Mahatma Gandhi came in for a lot of ridicule and banter but were not ignored. The Overseas Edition was a tabloid which Indian troops out of the country looked forward to and read avidly for war news in the home front. The visuals from the war front emphasizing the Allies, were flaunted on covers like British desert patrol. Anthony Eden, the then British Foreign Secretary General Sir John Dill at Cairo, an Indian sepoy on the front line etc. Aerial views of Delhi, the new capital of India since 1912, and Air-Raid precautions in Calcutta and London were particularly highlighted. The cartoons on the second cover (inside) made fun of Hitler and the advancing Japanese forces. The advance of the War, particularly the success of the Allied Forces in Middle East, captured the centre-spread and features in the early forties and India’s involvement in the War came to be praised in its pages. The posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Subedar Richpal Ram of Raj Rif, the second Indian to be awarded the Victoria Cross during the War, was flashed on the cover photo of the soldier who died during the fight for Kerenin. In the 6 September 1941 issue India’s war effort was editorially praised. A regular column, “Spotlight on the War and the pictures of Indian troops in Egypt and Middle East” must have