Babu Rajendra Prasad Bhaskar (12 March 1932 – 4 June 2024) was an Indian journalist and human rights-social activist from Kerala.
Life and career
Bhaskar served as editor of many of India's leading national newspapers: Co-Editor of The Hindu in Chennai (1953–1958); Deputy Editor at The Statesman in New Delhi (1959–1963); Co-Editor of Patriot from 1963 to 1965. He also worked in UNI from 1965 to 1983. He was Associate Editor at Deccan Herald in Bangalore from 1984 to 1991. From 1996 to 1997, he served as director and consultant of Andrapradesh Times in Hyderabad.
BRP was a columnist for the Gulf Today newspaper, which is published in Sharjah and he wrote for various newspapers in Malayalam and English. He received the 2022 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Biography and Autobiography for his biography, News Room.
Bhaskar died on 4 June 2024, at the age of 92.
References
- "ആർക്കൈവ് പകർപ്പ്". Archived from the original on 22 October 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- http://www.madhyamam.com/node/74270
- "ആർക്കൈവ് പകർപ്പ്". Archived from the original on 11 September 2015. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- "ആർക്കൈവ് പകർപ്പ്". Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- "കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി പുരസ്കാരങ്ങൾ പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചു" (in Malayalam). Retrieved 30 June 2023.
- Veteran journalist and activist BRP Bhaskar passes away