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dated November 18, 1953: Noted journalist Sadanand Dead

Acclaimed national journalist S. Sadanand, Managing Editor of the Free Press Journal, Bombay died at 2-45 p.m. on the 17th at St. Isabel's Hospital and Nursing Home, Oliver Road, Mylapore, where he had been admitted ten days earlier. Eldest son of the late Mr. C. V. Swaminatha Aiyar, Editor of the well-known former Tamil Weekly Vivekachintamani, Sadanand was educated in Madras City and entered journalism in 1917. A keen student of public affairs, habitually clad in spotless Khadi, he was in the thick of politics right from the start of his career, was a signatory to the pledge against the Rowlatt Act, and joined the Civil Disobedience Movement. On Reuter's staff in 1920, he later became Assistant Editor of The Independent, Allahabad.

As Publicity Officer for the Indian National Congress for a while, he looked after Khadi and Village Industries. In October 1930, he promoted the Free Press of India News Agency, and later, the Free Press Journal, and continued to be its Managing Editor. Prosecuted by the British Indian Government under Press Laws and convicted in 1930, on appeal he was acquitted. On a number of occasions, monetary securities were demanded of him making him forfeit more than Rs. 50,000.

Sadanand took over the Indian Express in 1932 from Dr. P. Varadarajulu Naidu and conducted it as a newspaper of the Free Press Journal group. In 1937, he founded the Bharata Devi. Sadanand covered the Second Round Table Conference in London in 1931 attended by Mahatma Gandhi, and also the Third Round Table Conference in 1933. He went to the Imperial Press Conference in 1946, and was a member of the Indian Newspaper Society delegation to London in 1948. He was in the All-India Newspaper Editors' Conference from inception, and a member of its Standing Committee.

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