Travel Diary

A microphone, a mobile phone, and determination. Dekode App: a new era of accessible, transparent journalism.' Casual scrolling through a social media page has never felt so meaningful. Even before I read the post, I saw the picture of an elderly man holding a microphone in one hand and a mobile phone in the other. It was not rocket science for me to recognise the gentleman, Dr Pronoy Roy, a pioneer in Indian television journalism, with his in-depth and impartial news reporting. Dr Roy is widely credited as a transformative figure in the history of Indian broadcast media, having revolutionised the way elections and current affairs were covered on television. I grew up listening to his news reports, election analysis, and, above all, his impartial and unbiased views. It was a decades-long ritual to watch prime-time news on NDTV. Just the sight of the photograph brought back so many memories lost in the labyrinth of memory lanes. The assassination of Mrs Indira Gandhi, the riots in D...