sans serif records with a heavy heart the passing away of Allen J. Mendonca, the former Indian Express and Times of India journalist, in Bangalore on Monday. He is survived by his wife Sandhya Mendonca and their son, Aditya. Allen, the son of a Reserve Bank of India employee, was an old-school journalist for whom…
Daily Archives: 28 September 2009
William Safire’s 18 steps to better writing
It’s not known if William Safire, who wrote the “On Language” column in the New York Times Magazine for 30 years till earlier this month, was conversant with the ways of social media, but it is safe to presume that he would have been horrified at how his demise last night was coveyed to readers…
‘Newspaper men meet such interesting people’
American folk music singer, the legendary Pete Seeger, sings an ode to newspapermen. Link via Vadiraj Hombal
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