Dabholkar was an editor too

IN Media Watch Briefs | 26/08/2013

Dr. Narendra Dabholkar, the rationalist who was murdered last week, was also an eminent journalist. He was the editor of the respected, intellectually robust Marathi language Sadhana Weekly, published from Pune, from 1998. It was founded by Sane Guruji (Pandurang Sadashiv Sae) in 1948 to 'destroy inequality and enmity' in society. Sane was a social democrat, which Dabholkar was too. No association of journalists, including the Editors Guild of India have thought it fit to see him as one of their own. At least not yet.

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