M. V. Kamath Explained

M. V. Kamath
Birth Date:7 September 1921[1]
Birth Place:Udupi, Madras Presidency, British India
Death Place:Manipal, Karnataka, India
Years Active:1940-2014
Occupation:Journalist, broadcasting executive, academic administrator
Nationality:Indian
Awards:Padma Bhushan

Madhav Vittal Kamath (7 September 1921 – 9 October 2014)[2] was an Indian journalist and broadcasting executive, and the chairman of Prasar Bharati.[3] He worked as the editor of The Sunday Times for two years from 1967 to 1969, as Washington correspondent for The Times of India[4] from 1969 to 1978 and also as editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India.[5] He had also written numerous books[6] [7] [8] [9] and was conferred with the Padma Bhushan award in 2004.[10] [11] He was born in a brahmin family[12]

In 2009, Mr. Kamath co-authored a biographical sketch of Narendra Modi book titled Narendra Modi: The Architect of a Modern State, at a time when Modi's reputation was considerably affected as a result of the 2002 Gujarat riots; post his ascent into national politics, a newer version of the book was published as The Man of the Moment: Narendra Modi.[13] Kamath was a board-member of Manipal Academy of Higher Education and was also the Honorary Director of the School of Communication, since its inception in 1997.[14]

He died on the morning of October 9, 2014, from a cardiac arrest at Kasturba Hospital; he was hospitalized since a few days back due to geriatric ailments.[15]

Malini Parthasarathy notes him to have longstanding sympathies with Hindutva—one of his columns following the murder of Graham Staines by Hindutva extremists sought to justify the incident as a spontaneous repercussion against conversions, if the government were not willing to step in—in what she deems that as a blatant incitement of hate crimes.[16] Others have shared similar views[17] and he has also extensively written in the official mouthpiece of RSS - Organiser.[18] [19] Kamath has been noted to be an astute journalist, whose opinions swayed with the tune of the majority; his stance on the Babri Masjid demolition was quite negative in the immediate aftermath but after about a decade, he deemed that as an act of valiance that restored the self-respect of Hindus and rejoiced about how the state, of Hindu India being under continual siege since the first Islamic invasions, was reversed for the first time.[20] [21] In the immediate aftermaths of the enactment of Mandal Commission recommendations, when RSS increasingly leaned towards a hardcore Brahmanical approach, Kamath had written of the need to maintain Hindu unity and negate the fall-outs of an impending Shudra revolution.[22] Alexander Evans had noted his efforts in racist communalisation of the Kashmir conflict; Kamath deemed the region to belong solely to the Pandits and not to the Muslims, who were allegedly alone-responsible for the decline of their culture.[23] Rajmohan Gandhi notes him to be a staunch Hindu.[24]

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  1. Web site: Veteran journalist MV Kamath dies at 93. 9 October 2014. The Times of India. 9 October 2014.
  2. Web site: Veteran journalist MV Kamath dies at 93. 9 October 2014. India Today. 31 December 2014.
  3. Web site: Govind . Nikhil . An independent voice . The Hindu . en-IN . 3 August 2013.
  4. Nireekshak. 1969. Nodding Editors. Economic and Political Weekly. 4. 25. 990–991. 0012-9976. 40740097.
  5. Gohain. Hiren. 1980. Cudgel of Chauvinism. Economic and Political Weekly. 15. 8. 418–420. 0012-9976. 4368393.
  6. Jason. Heda. Tcherniak. Alexander. 2004. Review of Indian Names: From Classical to Contemporary (For People, Places and Products). Asian Folklore Studies. 63. 1. 159–161. 0385-2342. 30030327.
  7. Mankekar. D.R.. 1987. Review of Behind the By-line—A Journalist's Memoirs. India Quarterly. 43. 1. 75–77. 0974-9284. 45072199.
  8. Kanitkar. Ajit. 2016-08-11. Book Reviews : M.V. Kamath, Points and Lines—Charat Ram: A Biography, New Delhi: UBS Publishers' Distributors Ltd., 1994, pp. 272. The Journal of Entrepreneurship. 4. 120–122. en. 10.1177/097135579500400112. 154036886.
  9. Narayan. Shyamala A.. 2016-07-26. India. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 28. 3. 45–68. en. 10.1177/002198949302800302. 220807327.
  10. Web site: Shri Madhav Vittal Kamath : Padma Bhusan. Government of India. 22 March 2010.
  11. Web site: Saffron selections . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604222342/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2003/02/02/stories/2003020200660300.htm. dead. 4 June 2011. Ninan. Sevanti. 2 February 2003. The Hindu. 22 March 2010.
  12. Web site: Ashraf. Syed Firdaus. 'Only Brahmins can defeat Brahminism'. 2022-01-16. Rediff. en.
  13. News: Veteran journalist MV Kamath . 9 October 2014. The Hindu. 31 December 2014. Prabhu . Ganesh . Reddy . B. Muralidhar .
  14. Web site: Veteran journalist MV Kamath dies at 93. 9 October 2014. The Times of India. 9 October 2014.
  15. News: Saffron selections . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604222342/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2003/02/02/stories/2003020200660300.htm. dead. 4 June 2011. Ninan. Sevanti. 2 February 2003. The Hindu. 22 March 2010.
  16. Book: Parthasarathy, Malini. Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right. 2015-03-06. Oxford University Press. 9780199380947. Nussbaum. Martha. 100. en-US. Legitimating Majoritarian Chauvinism:The Indian Media and the Hindutva Campaign. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195394825.001.0001. Doniger. Wendy. https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195394825.001.0001/acprof-9780195394825-chapter-6.
  17. Book: Nanda, Meera. The God Market: How Globalization is Making India More Hindu. October 2011. NYU Press. 9781583672501. 1. en.
  18. YADAV. YOGENDRA. PALSHIKAR. SUHAS. 2009. Between Fortuna and Virtu: Explaining the Congress' Ambiguous Victory in 2009. Economic and Political Weekly. 44. 39. 33–46. 0012-9976. 25663593.
  19. Maclean. Kama Kellie. 1999-12-01. Embracing the untouchables: the BJP and scheduled caste votes. Asian Studies Review. 23. 4. 488–509. 10.1080/10357829908713252. 1035-7823.
  20. Flåten. Lars Tore. 2012-09-01. Hindu Nationalist Conceptions of History: Constructing a Hindu–Muslim Dichotomy. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 35. 3. 624–647. 10.1080/00856401.2011.642794. 144969016. 0085-6401.
  21. Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=hEOFAgAAQBAJ. Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property. Layton. R.. Stone. P.. Thomas. J.. 2003-09-02. Routledge. 9781134604982. 151–152. en. Ayodhya, Print Media and Communalism.
  22. Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=sXoQwlyDMFoC. Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics. Ray. Raka. Katzenstein. Mary Fainsod. Mary Fainsod Katzenstein. 2005. Rowman & Littlefield. 9780742538436. 73. en. Problems of Social Power.
  23. Evans. Alexander. 2002-03-01. A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001. Contemporary South Asia. 11. 1. 19–37. 10.1080/0958493022000000341. 145573161. 0958-4935.
  24. Book: Gandhi, Rajmohan. Understanding the Muslim Mind. 2000-10-14. Penguin Books India. 9780140299052. en.
  25. Book: M. V. Kamath. M.V. Kamath, a Journalist at Large. 2006. Jaico Publishing House. 978-81-7992-577-5.
  26. Web site: A Reporter at Large . Bhavan's Book University . https://web.archive.org/web/20101214053955/http://www.bhavans.info/store/bookdetail.asp?bid=213&bauth=M.V.+Kamath . 14 December 2010.

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