A piece of advice for journalism students from the former deputy comptroller and auditor general of India, Harprasad Das, as heard by an intrepid reporter of the Orissa-based newspaper, Political and Business Daily: “Media students should become performers because performance justifies performance. What they speak is not their performance, rather what they perform is their…
Daily Archives: 19 August 2013
78-year-old man tops MA journalism course
A 78-year-old masters degree holder in mathematics, Sanskrit, Vaishnavism, and a doctorate in Sanskrit, has secured the first rank in MA journalism and communication at Madras University. But can even Dr T.D. Krishnamachari, with four masters degrees and a PhD, hope to get a job in these bleak, depressing times when journalists, cameramen and technicians…