Profile Balkrishan Khindria

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Both our adult histories begin in the West Delhi of the mid-1970’s where I helped to build up a scanner department at Mehta Offset Works in Naraina with a Hell C296 Chromograph, imported second-hand, and a Harris Fototronic 600 typesetter on which we set English and Devanagari using blind Datek keyboards that produced a punched paper tape. I had not met Balkrishan Khindria then, but he had given up his job in a travel agency and joined Monotype India as a sales and liaison officer which means government sales. He shared a cabin with NS Manku in the Asaf Ali Road office which still had a picture of Queen Elisabeth II as you entered, even when I visited it in 1979. ...cont´d

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