There will be no more 'Between the Lines' columns, which enriched the readers understanding of India and the world. Nayar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1997 while he was media advisor to the then Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. During Emergency, he was jailed for his opposition to the Indira Gandhi regime and credited with not crawling before the government as many media did during that period. He started off as an Urdu journalist before becoming the editor of The Statesman. Later in 1952, he did a journalism course from the US. The cremation will take place at Lodhi crematorium at 1 pm.īorn in Sialkot, now in Pakistan, in 1923, he did his BA from Forman Christian College in Lahore and LLB from Law College, Lahore. He also former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. Though he was not keeping well for some time, he was writing till recently his regular column 'Between the Lines' till recently and appeared in around 80 newspapers in 14 languages, including Deccan Herald. Veteran journalist and activist Kuldip Nayar, who was jailed during the 1975 Emergency, passed away here last night.ĩ5-year-old Nayar, who was a Director at The Printers Mysore Pvt Ltd that brings out 'Deccan Herald' and 'Prajavani' among other publications, breathed his last at the Escorts hospital at around 12:30 AM where he was admitted a day after his birthday on August 14.
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