{"id":48638,"date":"2018-05-21T13:41:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=48638"},"modified":"2018-05-21T13:41:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:41:35","slug":"surendra-nihal-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/surendra-nihal-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Surendra Nihal Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question- Surendra Nihal Singh passed away recently. He was-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Journalist<br \/>\n(b) Historian<br \/>\n(c) Painter<br \/>\n(d) Litterateur<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (a)<br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On April 16th, 2018; senior journalist Surendra Nihal Singh passed away. He was 88 years old.<\/li>\n<li>He was the editor of &#8216;The Statesman&#8217;, &#8216;The Indian Express&#8217; and &#8216;Khaleej Times&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>He was the founder editor of &#8216;The Indian Post&#8217; in 1987.<\/li>\n<li>In 1975, he was also given the prestigious &#8216;International Editor of the Year&#8217; award in New York for his role in opposing Indira Gandhi&#8217;s Emergency.<\/li>\n<li>He also wrote a number of books including &#8216;The Rocky Road to Indian Democracy: Nehru to Narasimha Rao&#8217;, &#8216;The Yogi and the Bear: Story of Indo-Soviet Relations&#8217;, &#8216;The Modi Myth&#8217;, &#8216;Ink in My Veins: A Life in Journalism&#8217; and &#8216;The Gang and 900 million: A China diary&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/india\/journalist-s-nihal-singh-dies-at-88-editor-was-known-for-opposing-emergency-coverage-of-1965-india-pakistan-war-4434313.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/india\/journalist-s-nihal-singh-dies-at-88-editor-was-known-for-opposing-emergency-coverage-of-1965-india-pakistan-war-4434313.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- Surendra Nihal Singh passed away recently. He was- (a) Journalist (b) Historian (c) Painter (d) Litterateur Answer: (a) Related Facts: On April 16th, 2018; senior journalist Surendra Nihal Singh passed away. He was 88 years old. He was the editor of &#8216;The Statesman&#8217;, &#8216;The Indian Express&#8217; and &#8216;Khaleej Times&#8217;. He was the founder editor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":47777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-48638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}