Radhakrishnan Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Very interesting account, sir!
Didn't know that apart from being a
teacher and writer, you were a journalist too. Hats off to you!
As for one group celebrating while another toils, it's a typical
Indian situation that has not changed much even today. Some are just
lucky!
Regards,
RKN
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro wrote:
In January 1953 the Times offered me a job as Sunday editor at their
soon to be started Calcutta edition, and when opening press night rolled
around in February, a group of top newsmen from the parent Bombay paper
descended on us, led by Moraes. They had a big bash in the evening at one of
the top hotels, at which if I remember right the Governor and local politicos
were wined and dined, while we working stiffs stayed back to put the paper
together.
Dear Mr. Nair,
I had a rather brief career in journalism in Bombay, beginning in May
1946 with a six-month apprecticeship at the Jam-e-Jamshed, a Parsi Gujerati
language paper htat had just one English page. Rusi Karanjia, who wanted me to
write for the Blitz, insisted I work there first to learn the basics of
journalism. When I joined Blitz later that year, he featured my satirical
political verse on the front page week after week. Unfortunately, I found that
he soon went from being a staunch Nehru supporter to having Communist leanings,
and I quit.
In the 1940s and '50s the job scene was rather fluid, and one went where
opportunity beckoned. The Times Calcutta edition was shut down by Dalmia in
1953 after seven short months of operation, and I finally wound up back in
Mumbai as music critic at the Times of India and Literary Editor at the
Illustrated Weekly. When the advertising giant, J. Walter Thompson, offered me
a senior copywriting job in 1954, I switched careers. Having migrated to New
York two years later, I wrote for the New York Times from 1956 through 1959,
and have written as well for the ethnic Indian press in the USA..
Like other writers before me, I have found that working for a daily
newspaper, where one has to meet deadlines and produce readable material day
after day, on a variety of subjects and at very short notice, gave me the
discipline needed to become a professional writer. I enjoyed every minute of
it, but it's a hard life and an uncertain life and not recommended for everyone.
Regards,
Victor
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