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Shyamal Dutta – Bangladesh, Syed Nahas Pasha – UK Executive Committee Saroj Nagi – India, William Horsley – UK, Debbie Ransome – UK, Ebenezer W Motale – Cameroon New CJA President Chris Cobb said he was honoured to be leading the association. He noted that in some of the Commonwealth’s 54 countries these are dark days for journalists – exacerbated by the COVID pandemic, which has added to the physical, emotional and financial ill-treatment being experienced by many reporters and editors. Cobb and his new team vowed to collaborate with like-minded organizations to add the CJA’s voice to those protesting the systemic abuse of journalists. “Our priorities over the next few years will also include building the CJA – especially on the African continent,” he said. “And we need to attract more young journalists into the association. I would also like to see us use new communications technologies for innovative training programs, and to ....
Shakti Sinha | | Published 17.01.21, 10:32 PM The author was former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Man Friday, the bureaucrat beside him through thick and thin and all the highs and lows. He was on the bus during the heady trip to Lahore and at his side when Vajpayee travelled to Kargil to buck up the troops even as the guns were still firing at will. Sinha was also with him in the car as Vajpayee rode from the swearing in ceremony to the prime minister’s office and remarks: “Little did I realise that over the next year-and-a-half, I would accompany Vajpayee on all car journeys, except when ill or really tired.” In his book, Vajpayee: The Years that Changed India , Sinha describes the hectic behind-the-scenes action when the Kargil War broke out and how India initially didn’t realise what a serious situation it had on its hands. An e ....