This pic of Mr TN Seshan with Brenda Figg of The Pioneer appeared on the front page of Hindi daily Swantantra Bharat . Senior journalists were disturbed after Brenda 'apologised' for their aggressive heckling of the Chief Election Commissioner. I cannot remember the year (1996) so I'm not sure whether he was still in office at the time. Swatantra Bharat was the sister daily of The Pioneer. Carlton Figg who rose from sub editor and reporter to become News Editor of The Pioneer and later the first News Editor of Northern India Patrika , at its inception at Lucknow, died in Nov 2008. Besides trying to breathe life into The National Herald in Lucknow, in its dying months, he also edited two eveningers that didn't get the right financial or readership support to help them survive. His column Around the Town was written under the pen name, Jaywalker.
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