'Death makes no concession to success'
'Death makes no concession to success' Last issue on this page I wrote that death rarely comes by appointment. It is a phrase that has come back to haunt me. S.P. Singh Last issue on this page I wrote that death rarely comes by appointment. It is a phrase that has come back to haunt me. For last week my colleague Surendra Pratap Singh, a man who many knew as the presenter of Aaj Tak, our daily Hindi news show on Doordarshan, passed away. Just 49, S.P., as he was known to all, was suddenly struck down by a brain haemorrhage. Here was a man in the very prime of his journalistic career, who had just mastered a new medium and was raring to go for bigger things. But it was not to be. Death makes no concession to success. S.P. actually came into television by accident. He was a highly respected Hindi journalist and I took him on board two years ago as editor of the Hindi edition of INDIA TODAY. But even before he could take on that post, our group received a proposal to do the Hi...