Dileep padgaonkar biography
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Dileep Padgaonkar: A sparkling reporter who lived his life without fuss
Dileep Padgaonkar went very much the way he lived his life, quietly and without any fuss. To say that India has lost one of its most sparkling journalistic talents is to diminish his many talents and the myriad dimensions of his personality. For me, this is a huge anställda loss as we have been friends virtually all our adult lives. We got particularly close after I began working with him in the Times of India, first putting together the Sunday Times of India and then as Resident Editor of the Times of India in the early nineties, but our friendship which began well before lasted till his all too early exit from this world on Friday, November 25, 2016. He was my closest friends and a great mentor to my sons.
Read: Dileep Padgaonkar, reporter and Kashmir peace interlocutor, dies at 72
For those who did not know him or know much about him, he began as a cub reporter at the age of 24 in what was then cal
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Obit: Dileep Padgaonkar, editor, Times of India, 1986-94, passes away at 72
Patrician looking, yet casually dressed, with the confidence that could question both ministers and militants, yet he didn’t hesitate to sit and chat with his staff in the newsroom, outside the editor’s cabin, able to write with equal ease on politics and social change, and also how to make the perfect omelette.
His actual stint as editor of the Times of Indiawas from 1986 to 1994, but for long after, when peoplethought of the Times of Indiaeditor, they thought of him. (He returned as executive managing editor from 1998 to 2002 and was consulting editor after that.)
In truth, Padgaonkar was an editor for a changing time. The editors before him had been remote figures, operating from their cabins or confidential meetings with high-level contacts. The
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Dileep Padgaonkar, journalist and Kashmir peace envoy, dies at 72
New Delhi: Dileep Padgaonkar, who once famously claimed that his job -- editor of the Times of India -- was the second most important in the country after the Prime Minister’s, died in Pune on Friday.
Padgaonkar, 72, spent 48 years in journalism, many of which were in the Times of India, which he joined in 1968 in Paris soon after completing his doctoral studies at the Sorbonne. He became the newspaper’s editor in 1988.
In 2010, Padgaonkar, who was born in Pune, was appointed as one of the interlocutors on Kashmir by the Union government along with academician Radha Kumar and information commissioner M.M. Ansari.
He was also the author of Under Her Spell, a book about director Roberto Rossellini’s turbulent stint in India in the late 1950s.
Swapan Dasgupta, Padgaonkar’s friend remembers him fondly. “He was one of the last of those editors who had a reflective mind. He had strong views but he was acc