Football-crazy Bengal has easily beaten football-crazy Kerala and football-crazy Goa in its coverage of the passing of Argentinian legend Diego Maradona.
The Bengali daily Anandabazar Patrika (above) has a classy front page, and calm and unckuttered inside pages, in contrast to the early editions of Malayala Manorama and Mathrubhumi (below).
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The Goan newspapers are neither here nor there.
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Alone among the major English newspapers, The Telegraph pays a rich tribute on page one without invoking “hand” or ” god” in is headline.
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Looking at most of the rest you would be wondering if Maradona ever used his foot.
IJR 