![]() ![]() He had authored 15 books including Beyond the Lines, India after Nehru and Emergency Retold. He also worked with the Indian Express, The Times, The Spectator and the Evening Star. He was the editor and General Manager of United News of India (UNI) and also the editor of The Statesman. He worked in the Press Information Bureau as a Press Officer to then home ministers Govind Ballabh Pant and Lal Bahadur Shastri. Nayar started his journalistic career with the Urdu daily Anjam in 1948. He had served as India’s High Commissioner to Britain in 1990 and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1997. ![]() Nayar was cremated at the Lodhi electric crematorium in the presence of dignitaries including former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia, rebel Janata Dal-United leader Sharad Yadav besides journalist-turned politician M J Akbar, senior journalists Arun Shourie and Siddharath Varadarajan.īorn on August 14, 1923, in Sialkot (Pakistan), Nayar was a multi-faceted personality who was among the country’s first syndicated columnists. ![]() ![]() He is survived by his wife Bharti and two sons, Sudhir, who lit the funeral pyre, and Rajiv. He breathed his last at 12.30 am at the Escorts Hospital, where he was brought for treatment of pneumonia five days ago. New Delhi: Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar, who fell foul of the establishment and was jailed during Emergency and a peacenik on Indo-Pak relations, died at a hospital here. ![]()
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