Span Magazine, 1950s

SPAN is a bimonthly general interest magazine on India and the United States published in English, Hindi, and Urdu by the Embassy of the United States in New Delhi since November 1960. SPAN is now serving its third generation of Indians. SPAN reprints articles from well-known American magazines like National Geographic, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and Wired to name a few. Indian and American writers are commissioned to write articles in the fields of education, travel, technology, public policy environment, media, etc. SPAN has also commissioned leading Indian artists to create unique covers for the magazine. SPAN is available to Indian citizens by subscription and can be read online at: http://span.state.gov/. In March 2003, SPAN also began publishing in Hindi and Urdu to reach a wider audience. Current circulation is over 62,000 in all three languages with an estimated readership