Hindustan Times
Years ago, when I was aspiring to become a journalist and had just about got my first job in a newspaper my maternal uncle a high ranging bureaucrat in the Madhya Pradesh cadre expressed both contempt time sorrow time that his niece had chosen to become a reporter. He had wanted me to sit for civil services exams instead or at least for some bank entrance tests. That would be more honest work than becoming a journalist, he said. Read more
(10 votes, average: 3.2 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 26, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged blackmailers, corruption, electoral process, hindustan times, newspapers, Reporter, Seshan, Shankaracharya Chandrashekhar Saraswati, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, TN Seshan
I can hardly believe that it is two decades since the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
Just a few days before he was killed he was campaigning in Bombay. I was working for a wire service at the time and my Bureau Chief had given me stern instructions: the then union government had withdrawn his security cover and Rajiv was a sitting duck for assassins. Read more
(41 votes, average: 4.8 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 21, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Filed under India · Tagged assassination, Bombay, Bombay Congress, Bureau Chief, Election Commissioner, Hindi media, Mulund, Murli Deora, Nagpada, Nehru-Gandhis, president, Rajiv Gandhi, security cover, TN Seshan
