New Delhi: Sham Lal, legendary journalist and former editor of national daily The Times of India, passed away on Friday. He was 94.
Lal was a masters graduate in English Literature and joined the Hindustan Times in 1934. He stayed there for 16 years and moved to The Times of India in early 1950.
He became the editor of the daily in 1967 and was known for his strong and independent views.
He also wrote a weekly literary column in the Mumbai edition of TOI called 'Life and Letters'. The column became very popular and was the first to introduce many Indian readers to scores of writers and thinkers who left their mark on post-war literature and social thought.
Lal retired from the services of TOI in 1978.
Thereafter, he busied himself by writing columns for English daily The Telegraph and occasionally for the literary journal Biblio: A Review of Books.
A collection of his critical literary reviews centering on the theme of modernity came in the form of a book A Hundred Encounters some years ago.
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