Daily Archives: 13 March 2012

The newspaper hawker who became a millionaire

Reporters and editors—and proprietors—becoming millionaires overnight is no longer news. In India’s naxal heartland, a news hawker becoming one is. Jaideep Hardikar reports in The Telegraph, Calcutta, on the curious case of Pawan Dubey and his Toyota Fortuner. And it is all linked to payouts made by the steel company, Essar, to buy peace from…