Edition 50

Week 2
The Exacting Editing
Rome wasn’t built in a day!
In week two, our team embarks on an arduous
journey of scrupulous editing. Every sheet is read,
re-read and then re-read to weed out all factual
anomalies and inconsistencies. Then there’s our
old archenemy, fake news. In our fifty editions
long battle, we have managed to prevail over this
deceitful force. A part of our journey includes factchecking
and cross-referencing every received
detail against our pre-existing database and
Google’s infinite pool of knowledge, while also
employing columnists to manually verify some
information!
Week 3
The Magnificent
Makeover
DTU Times isn’t something you refer to for acing
the midsems, but we always recommend our
editions as an escapade from the long late night
study sessions. Instead of hitting you with a blob
of dull black text on equally dull white paper, we
ensure our editions are sublime amalgamations
of elegance and glamour, but never ostentatious.
The job of embellishing the editions with bright
pastels that play well with the text and enhance
the very soul of the editions, falls upon our team of
visionary designers.
Each designer, inventive and imaginative as they
are, unleashes their overflowing creativity onto
the pages as they arduously labour over striking
the perfect balance between page layout, colour
scheme, placement, font face, font size, page bleed
(Bet you didn’t know that one!) and whatnot. This
herculean task of creating the perfect page is
shouldered by our illustrious designers who live up
to the editor’s surreal design goals, or so we would
like to believe.
Week 4
Putting It All Together
In the week following the splendiferous makeover
of the edition, the designer-editor control system,
aka DECS, kicks in. Acting as a conduit between
the designers and the editors, the success of
the edition banks on the efficient functioning of
the DECS. The Editors and Designers review, and
re-review, and re-re-review each section, each
spread, each page and each line. They, then,
indulge in a back and forth volley of reviews and
ideas, constantly deluging the other group with an
avalanche of information.
To achieve the perfect level of lucidity and clarity,
the editors and designers spend countless hours
working on each illustration and each word that
features in each of these elements.After the edition
has received the nod of approval by all members of
the family, it is rushed off to the printers.
Done! The edition is welcomed into the campus
grounds and shoved into the hands of unwitting
students so that we can see their mouths gaping
and know that the toil and grind over the last
few weeks was worth it. In the end, the edition
transforms into something bigger than us. It
transforms into a beacon of pride, for every
student, teacher and faculty member to wield as
they proudly display the achievements of DTU to
kith & kin. Once it achieves this dreamlike status,
the members of DTU Times discreetly fade into the
background, basking in the resplendent afterglow
of the entrancing edition.
* As opposed to our conventionally forty-page
long editions, this edition, our pièce de résistance,
features fifty-six pages.
Week I Lost Count
Paragant ki mkc, saara edition end mai 4 logon ne banaya, kutton farewell edition tha
sharam karo.
Didi bas kya bataun, gaayab rahna band karo.
Thak gaya hun bro - Jha