MV Kamath passes on
MV Kamath, who died on October 9 morning at Manipal, was a Times group veteran for much of his career. A former editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India, he was also the Washington Correspondent for The Times of India in the 1970s and did a stint as editor of The Sunday Times. He was made chairman of the Prasar Bharati Board when the Vajpayee government was in power. BJP leader LK Advani is slated to attend his funeral. He was still doing an honorary stint at the age of 94, as chairman of the Manipal Institute of Communications.