Lifetimes in journalism
This photograph of the legendary political reporter, editor and columnist Kuldip Nayar appeared in the long defunct Sunday Observer towards the end of 1981. The news item was about a publishing group launching a fortnightly magazine on politics and economics, which the left-of-centre Nayar was to edit. The project was implemented and shelved within six months. Nayar never got to edit the magazine whose demise was heralded as being ahead of its time.
This was taken at Nayar’s residence in South Delhi towards the end of 2011. The veteran journalist’s life story will be published shortly, joining a long list of autobiographies from the media which recently hit bookshops.
Vinod Mehta, editor-in-chief of the Outlook magazine group, was on the cover of the weekly shortly before his memoir Lucknow Boy entered the market. This veteran, who too spent a lifetime editing newspapers and magazines made some gossipy revelations in his book. Nayar and Mehta, although being born a decade and a half apart, are good friends. Let’s wait to see what the older Punjabi’s book will disclose. This photograph was taken at a shop in New Delhi’s Connaught Place.
