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The first duty of the press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and instantly, by disclosing them, to make them the common property of the nation. The press lives by disclosures……We are bound to tell the truth as we find it, without fear of consequences…
Robert Lowe, editorial, London Times, 1851

It’s been four days since my Google alert on Trust Inc threw this very interesting piece of information. Sudheendra Kulkarni, erstwhile advisor to LK Advani and Atal Behari Vajpayee and now the Chief Advisor for Observer Research Foundation, has joined Trust Inc in its corporate communications department.

Since then, not a word elsewhere, neither print nor TV or new media. Deafening silence.

LK once commented on the Indian scribe tribe. He said when asked to bend by Priya Duryodhini during Emergency, our esteemed members of the fourth estate began to crawl.

Prophetic...