Mokokchung Times placed in Dolagobinda Newspaper Museum and Research Centre, Odisha
Mokokchung/Bhubaneswar, April 5 (MTNews): Mokokchung Times, Nagaland’s first hyperlocal English daily has made its way to the Odisha based Dolagobinda Newspaper Museum and Research Centre (DNMRC). This was informed by the founder of DNMRC, Shashanka Sekhar Dash.
The DNMRC founder, Shashanka Sekhar Dash has a collection of more than 10,000 newspapers of 153 countries and 94 languages earning him the title, “Paperman India”. In 2019, he won the Guinness World Record for having the largest collection of newspapers – different titles.
Shashanka started his newspaper collection in the year 2000 when he was associated with a small Odia newspaper as a journalist. It was during this time, he observed how a lot of newspapers got published in the state but could not sustain due to various reasons. This inspired him to start the collection with an aim to preserve the history of journalism.
First, he gathered all Odia newspapers followed by the English and Hindi medium newspapers of Odisha. After that, he started collecting from other states and languages and further added non-Indian newspapers to his collection.
Gradually, his collection grew and today, he has collected 5028 different titles with Mokokchung Times among his most recent collection.
With such a large number of collections, Dash started preserving the newspaper in his small newspaper museum and research centre in his village Arangabad, Bari block, Jajpur district of Odisha which was named after his father, a retired school headmaster, Shri Dolagobinda Dash.
Today, his Dolagobinda Newspaper Museum and Research Centre has become a reference center for journalists, journalism students, enthusiasts and others.
Dash has exhibited his collection for 12 times at various parts of Odisha whose exhibitions have been witnessed by more than 5 lakh people. Some of his significant exhibitions include Birla Global University and Indian Institute of Mass Communication (Dhenkanal).
Dash is also a record holder from OMG Book of Records, Credence Book of World Records, India Book of Records, Limca Book of Records and the Guinness World Records.
His collection includes various other newspapers from Nagaland including Tir Yimyim, Eastern Mirror, The Morung Express, Nagaland Page, Capi, Sumi Kukuputsa and Nagaland Today.
Shashanka Sekhar Dash is currently a Field Training Consultant at water.org, an American based organisation with support of Unicef.