A few years after independence, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru offered a journalist the post of ambassador to Moscow. He politely declined because he preferred his profession to a government job.
He was Devadas Gandhi, the renowned Managing Editor of the Hindustan Times. He was a freedom fighter, a public intellectual, one who participated in some of the defining debates of his era. And he also remains the newspaper’s longest-serving editor. Sixty-nine years after his death in August 1957, the man and his life continue to pose questions to journalists.
