Padiyar, who joined The Navhind Times from The Times of India where he had moved from Free Press Journal, had a brief stint as editor as he passed away following a heart attack.

And suppose, after doing your daily stint, you should encounter a word it behooves you to know.

In 1820 the usual crop in middle Georgia for each full hand was reported at six acres of cotton and eight of corn; but in the following decades during which mules were advantageously substituted for horses and oxen, and the implements of tillage were improved and the harvesters grew more expert, the annual stint was increased to ten acres in cotton and ten in corn.