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The World Sindhi Institute
October 27,
2003
Press Release
Friends:
We have lost our
great friend and supporter.
Saaeen K. R. Malkani died
today
in Pondecheri, at
the age of eighty-two.
Please join us for a
condolence meeting
on November 8 in
Washington, DC.
Saturday, November
8, 2003
From 5:00-7:00pm
At the Town Square
Tower
700 7th Street, SW
Washington, DC
20024
Our Dear Malkani attended WSI
conferences,
hosted us during our visits to India,
and acted always as our advisor and
close friend.
He will be missed terribly.
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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.
Through nonviolent means,
The World Sindhi Institute works
relentlessly
for universal human rights and humanitarian law for
the
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