India News: Legendary actor and superstar Amitabh Bachchan shared a close association for almost 60 years with Indu Jain, chairman of The Times of India Group, wh.
Legendary actor and superstar Amitabh Bachchan shared a close association for almost 60 years with Indu Jain, chairman of The Times of India Group, who attained nirvana on May 13.
Indu Jain had arrived from the polar opposite of the empire suddenly at her command. She had evolved through satsangs promoting peace and universal humanhood; media thrived on clashes – political and economic, social, civic and celeb. She had walked with believers; cynicism was a professional imperative for journalists. She was the boss, so open revolt wasn’t possible; but you couldn’t miss the clatter of collectively dropped jaws that met her diktats.
The new Chairman wanted a kinder, gentler, happier newspaper. How is it possible, we grumbled, when doom and gloom are the raison d etre of media, when the age-old mantra was good news is no news ? But you know what? From this conflicted churning emerged an antidote to troubled times: the positive stories of human goodness which lit the way out of the catastrophic events that hit the nation droughts, floods, cyclones, major accidents, terror attacks. This has continued in the latest, arguable worst scourge of all. During the