Pothan Joseph, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pothan Joseph

Indian journalist

Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1892

Place of Birth: Chengannur, Kerala, India

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: author, journalist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Pothan Joseph (1892–1972) was a journalist in 20th-century India whose career spanned the twenty years before and twenty years after India's independence.
He worked with notable people of the time such as Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Annie Besant, Mahatma Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, and Motilal Nehru.
He was the first to write a daily political column for five decades, called 'Over A Cup of Tea', sprinkled with Biblical and Dickensian quotes.
He also discovered and nurtured the Indian cartoonist Shankar, helping to make political cartoons a staple of newspapers. Joseph started or developed 26 newspapers.
These included the Hindustan Times, the Indian Express, and the Deccan Herald.
He was the first editor of Dawn in 1942 while it was based in New Delhi.
He left Dawn to take a position with the government.Pothan Joseph guarded editorial freedom and demanded that editors support those who worked in the editorial wing and never encroach on their freedom.
Even before unionization, Pothan also pleaded for proper payment to deserving journalists.
His motto during his working life was "courage, vigilance and fidelity".