Narendra Mohan father, the late Puran Chand Gupta, who never faltered in his determination to become a newspaper baron. "Jagran", started from Jhansi, was his third attempt at being a powerful news lord. But Mr Mohan, who took over the paper while his father was still alive, almost certainly deserves the credit for turning it into the potent force that it is today. He made full use of the technological advances in the newspaper industry to boost the "Dainik Jagran"'s circulation and clout. It was one of the first to switch to colour and printing satellite editions. The newspaper employs about 2,000
Compute!'s Gazette from each issue was available to subscribers for an extra fee. Perhaps "Gazette"s most popular and enduring type-in application was the "SpeedScript" word processor. A monthly column entitled The VIC Magician by Michael Tomczyk presented BASIC programming tips and tricks for the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64. Towards the end of the 1980s, the magazine's size steadily decreased due to the increasing switch from 8-bit to 16-bit home computers. The last stand-alone issue of "Compute!'s Gazette" was published with cover date June 1990. At that point, the "Compute!" brand, including "Gazette", was sold to the publishers of "Omni" and "Penthouse".