Foundation for Media Professionals panel discussion: “Can rural reporting be sexy?” Monday, 25 January 2010, India International Centre auditorium, New Delhi. 10.30 am to 1 pm.
Daily Archives: 18 January 2010
How Jyoti Basu saved a journalist’s job
The veteran Indian communist leader Jyoti Basu has passed away at the age of 95. In The Telegraph, Calcutta, special correspondent Barun Ghosh recounts how India’s longest serving chief minister helped him keep his job at the newspaper, 25 years ago. “The rain hadn’t stopped falling that July ’84 morning and I reached Writers’ Buildings…