Tag: Nihal Singh

By Saeed Naqvi, These are such desperate times for journalism that S. Nihal Singh's departure at 89 triggers memories about a phase in the profession that dreams are made of. My personal journalistic trajectory trailed his rather closely. He was The Statesman's Special Correspondent in Singapore when I entered the portals of that once great newspaper as a cub reporter. I was, in fact, following Nihal's footsteps because this was how he entered the profession a decade earlier -- as a cub reporter. There were no schools of journalism then, but we...