Nachiketa Desai : Breathing , Eating And Sleeping News To The Very End
BY R.K.MISRA Journalists are like bile in the body who force out the ‘fats’ ingested by the rich and the powerful and splatter it across news pages with religious regularity. At least that’s what they are supposed to do. Friend and fellow-journalist Nachiketa Desai continued to do just this for the bulk of his professional life until he passed on to the other side at his modest Akhbarnagar home in Ahmedabad on the morning of February 5. Breathe, eat and sleep news and the acid in it corrodes your entrails over time. Seventy two summers of relentless beating and a multiplicity of profession- inflicted ailments had frayed the frame though the spirit held aloft until the burden became a trifle too much to bear. We had last met ,just a week ago, when he was hospitalised for the umpteenth time. Aware that time was running out but yet unperturbed , he went about unfolding the blueprint of the work that needed to be done in disseminating the...