This is what his favourite editor, Vinod Mehta, (having long stints with him in The Sunday Observer, The Pioneer, Outlook) describes with his tongue-in-cheek simplicity and lucidity: “Ajith was a quiet reporter. Self-effacing, perhaps too self-effacing and reticent… Graham Greene wrote the prescient masterpiece The Quiet American. Ajith was the ‘quiet reporter’. And all the better for it, so unlike the garrulous ones too flamboyant and too eager to take credit for what they had not done…”
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 05:30:00 +0000