Kewalram Rattanmal Malkani

Kewalram Rattanmal Malkani was born in 1921 in Hyderabad, Sindh in 1921 to a politically prominent family there. He earned a Master’s Degree in Economics and Politics from the School of Economics and Sociology in Bombay, India. He was a Lecturer at the D.G.N. College from 1945-7. After Partition, in early 1948, he joined the Hindustan Times as an assistant Editor. Later that year, he resigned from his job and joined the weekly Organizer as Editor. He continued in that capacity until 1983, while simultaneously acting as an editor of the daily Motherland.

Malkani was the Nieman Fellow at Harvard University from 1961-2, and the first General Secretary of the Editors’ Guild of India (1978-9). He was also a member of India’s Press Delegation to China in 1978. From 1983 to 1990, he was Vice-Chairman of the Deendayal Research Institute in New Delhi. From 1991 until very recently, he served as Vice President of B. J. P. Mr. Malkani published many books in his lifetime, including: The Midnight Knock (1977), The R. S. S. Story (1980), and The Sindh Story (1984). On July 3, 2002, K. R. Malkani, was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry.

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