Daily Archives: 22 October 2009

Anybody here who’s Hindu and wants to convert?

In the 1980s and ’90s, the undivided Indian Express, it was rumoured, was loathe to hiring Muslim journalists because of the pronounced pro-Hindu sentiment of its proprietor Ramnath Goenka, although there were exceptions to the rule like Saeed Naqvi and Rasheeda Bhagat. Thankfully, that trend changed with the death of the old man and the…