Reading about the German bakery blasts and the terror attack in New Delhi on Monday, brought back a few memories. Some time in early 1986 when I was just a year into journalism, we were sitting around after putting the paper to bed when three clean-shaved young men walked into the then Maharashtra Herald office [...]
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Terror revisited…
Posted: February 14, 2012 in TerrorismTags: Gen A.S. Vaidya, journalist, Maharashtra Herald, S.D. Wagh
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It’s been fun, while it lasted
Posted: January 20, 2011 in MediaTags: Journalism, journalist, media students
It’s been six years since I quit the print media and floundered into Information Technology, Corporate Communication and teaching – I don’t want to call it ‘academics’ because I don’t think I am qualified to call myself an ‘academic’. But, recently, I returned to the scene of the crime (metaphorically speaking), which I had left [...]
Just the other day I met a publisher who asked me to work on a 50-page English magazine for the youth – a serious magazine which would talk about positive thinking, career, and personality development but with a few ‘light’ features, without any stress on fashion, gossip, scandal or films. The gentleman also has a [...]
There was this joke I heard about God some time back and it went something like this: There was an old man sitting on his porch watching the rain fall. Pretty soon the water was coming over the porch and into the house. The old man was still sitting there when a rescue boat came [...]
I read a few days ago of the death of veteran and very respected journalist Gopalrao Patwardhan. My overriding memory of Gopalrao (I don’t think he would like me to address him as Mr Patwardhan) during my brief association with him was his gentleness. I met him last year at the Ranade Institute during a [...]
