In 2015, he was honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to journalism at the eighth edition of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence awards. Nayar, a former editor of The Indian Express, was also the author of 15 books including Beyond the Lines, India after Nehru and Emergency Retold. Kuldip Nayar, renowned journalist, author and human rights activist passed away on Thursday in Delhi.
He was honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to journalism at the eighth edition of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence awards. Kuldip Nayar was among the journalists who had staunchly opposed the Emergency and was jailed during that period. “My aim was to show the history of the Partition and post-Independent India through the journey of a man who has been the nation’s conscience keeper,” said Meera had said. Meera Dewan, a filmmaker, had also made a film called In His Inner Voice: Kuldip Nayar for Films Division. His last rites will be performed at 1pm today at Lodhi crematorium in Delhi. He was a widely known columnist and wrote for newspapers both in India and outside. He later headed various newspapers in Delhi. He studied journalism and began his career with an Urdu newspaper called Anjam.
Nayar born in Sialkot in 1923, graduated in law. Newspapers and television channels have themselves become so pro-establishment that the government doesn’t have to do anything to make them fall in line,” he wrote. Indira Gandhi switched off the lights of democracy to make us grope in the darkness of police raj.” He also expressed dismay over the way the “soft Hindutva is overtaking the print and electronic media.” “Seeing how conformist the press is today, I don’t think it would be necessary for the government to take any extra-constitutional measures.
Reflecting on the emergency period in India, Nayar in an opinion piece in The Indian Express wrote, “If I were to explain this failing to the Indians of today or tomorrow, I would say that we faltered as a nation. Click here to read Nayar’s writings in the Indian Express. During Emergency, he was jailed under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) for leading a protest against the excesses of the administration. Nayar was among the journalists who had staunchly opposed the Emergency imposed by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi. Nayar also served as High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom in 1990 and as a member of the Rajya Sabha in 1997, reports The Indian Express. In 2015, he was honoured with ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for his contribution to journalism at the eighth edition of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence awards. Nayar, a former editor of The Indian Express, was also the author of 15 books including “Beyond the Lines”, “India after Nehru” and “Emergency Retold”.
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