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| DUJ remembers Journalist O.P. Sabharwal | |
New Delhi, May 18 (Scoop News) –The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) and the Delhi Media Centre for Research & Publications Trust (DMCT) paid rich tributes to veteran journalist O.P Sabharwal, who died on May 15.
The Delhi Union of Journalists and the Delhi Media Centre for Research & Publications at a joint meeting held today adopted the resolution on the death of O.P. Sabharwal.
The speakers recalled their association with O. P. Sabharwal, former editor of India Press Agency (IPA), and lauded his contribution towards Journalism, society irrespective of caste, creed or religion.
They said O. P. Sabharwal will be remembered by his staff, colleagues and friends as a man with the sunny smile and helping hand. His background as a communist during colonial times gave him a rich cultural backdrop that served him well in his career as a journalist. He could write about arts and science with equal felicity, although reporting about politics gradually pushed his other writings onto the back burner.
He was one of those few journalists interested in science reporting. He took keen interest in India’s nuclear programme of which he had considerable technical knowledge. His communist internationalism was always balanced with his acute nationalism.
O.P., as he was known to his friends and colleagues, was a man with many interests. His tough job as the head of an agency that struggled against financial difficulties gave him little time to indulge his love of classical music and dance. In office he would hum songs of K.L. Saigal, his friend and favourite singer. He could come up with couplets from Ghalib, Meer and Majaz in the middle of writing pieces on nuclear tests and electoral battles. His association with the progressive movement helped him establish contact with many famous poets and actors some of whom became his friends like Sahir Ludhianvi, Kaifi Azmi and Achala Sachdev.
He was a stout believer in technology and was fascinated by the leaps in high technology like irradiation of food and space ventures.
O.P Nwas extremely fond and proud of his daughter Alka, and took a rare holiday from work to be with her in the US when she had her child. He talked glowingly of his son too.
He was a member of the DUJ till the end and never let his belief in trade unionism sag under the weight of the changing economic scenario. He had his reservations about the contract work system in the media.
The DUJ & DMCT celebrate his contribution to journalism and salute his dedication to the profession to which he gave sixty years of his life.
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