Sunanda K-Datta-Ray, former editor of The Statesman, in the Business Standard: “A media that sits in judgement on the world must itself be blameless. “W.T. Stead, the famous English journalist who once edited the Northern Echo and who is credited with inventing investigative journalism, grandly told a Royal Commission, ‘The simple faith of our forefathers…
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Why N.J. Nanporia bought a carved table
sans serif records with regret the demise of N.J. Nanporia, the half-Parsi, half-Japanese former editor of The Times of India and The Statesman in Poona. He was 88 years old. Sunanda K. Datta-Ray pays a warm tribute in Business Standard: “No other Indian I have known in 54 years in journalism has been so reluctant…
Hu, Wen and why China scorns Indian media
When the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao visited India in December 2010, he was critical of the Indian media, saying it repeatedly sensationalised the border situation, causing damage to bilateral ties. He even lectured a group of editors to play a more active role in enhancing friendship between the two countries. However, when the Chinese president…
The blood stains of a language murdered
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, the former editor of The Statesman and a wordsmith par excellence, in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “Speaking many years ago at Secunderabad’s Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages on editing an English-language newspaper in India, I recalled having to explain to young journalists that a district is a geographical term and does…
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