The Editors’ Guild of India took up Akbar’s case at my initiative recently. There was hardly any speaker who did not express regret over his fate. A committee has been constituted to look into not only the proprietor-editor relationship but also the misuse of power by journalists who allegedly take money for using or not using a news item.
Talking generally, other editors have also been fired in the past. Frank Moraes, Khushwant Singh, George Verghese, Pran Chopra, S. Mulgaokar, H.K. Dua and Vinod Mehta have all been victims of political pressure. If I recall correctly, the only two editors out of these who joined issue with the proprietor were: Pran, directly against The Statesman, and Verghese through the Press Council of India. One had to compromise with the management and, in the other’s case the government dissolved the Press Council.
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