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Don’t succumb to allurement, journalists told

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— Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

KDA chairman Siddalingaiah (left), critic L.S. Seshagiri Rao and C.M. Ramachandra (right) in Bangalore on Tuesday.

Bangalore: Writer and critic L.S. Seshagiri Rao on Tuesday hailed the fourth estate as the last bastion and custodian of democracy and exhorted journalists to serve society without succumbing to any threat or allurement.

Presiding over a programme organised to release the Kannada version of the former Bangalore Bureau chief of The Hindu, C.M. Ramachandra’s book, “A Scribe’s Odyssey”, here, Prof. Rao said that the author had chronicled his professional career spanning over six decades in the book.

“It will be nostalgia for old Bangaloreans when they go through the book, while for the younger generation it gives a picture of what the State and Bangalore were half a century ago,” he said.

Kannada Development Authority chairman Siddalingiah, who released the book, said that Mr. Ramachandra had reviewed over 1,000 books in newspapers.

Replying to felicitations, Mr. Ramachandra said during his four-year stint in “Deccan Herald”, where he was groomed, and the subsequent four decades in The Hindu, where he blossomed into a veteran, he could throw light on the day-to-day events, including political and cultural, and also meet people of great eminence, thanks to the late K.N. Guruswamy and G. Kasturi, the respective owners of the two newspapers.

Prominent among those who attended the function were the former Minister, H.N. Nanje Gowda, freedom fighter H.S. Doreswamy, and senior journalists V.N. Subba Rao, S.V. Jayasheela Rao, P. Ramiah and C.T. Joshi, and director of Sapna Book House, which has published the book, Nithin Shah.

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