Lakhan Mehrotra & Raghavendra Vajpeyi (Eds.)

Mr. Upendra Vajpeyi was a freedom fighter, a veteran journalist, one of the founders of U.P. Working Journalists Union and Indian Federation of Working Journalists. He conceived and organized residential colonies for journalists' in Delhi and Gurgaon. He was founder General Secretary of the National Media Centre as well as founder Secretary of the Media India Centre for Research & Development. He was himself a communicator par-excellence who had conceived the idea of this book and had also collected the articles being published here. The Editors: Mr. Lakhan Mehrotra is an erudite scholar of Sanskrit, history, Indological studies and diplomacy (both theory and practice). After a brief period of teaching post-graduate students of the Allahabad University, he entered Foreign Service and took up several diplomatic assignments in different countries. Ambassador Mehrotra retired from the position of Secretary in the External Affairs Ministry. He also served as U.N. General Secretary's personal representative in Cambodia and Head of the U.N. Mission in Jakarta (Indonesia). Dr. Raghavendra Vajpeyi is a professional historian who has experience of teaching undergraduate and post-graduate students in Delhi University for more than four decades. Apart from his published doctoral thesis, he has to credit a fairly impressive number of published research papers and articles on various aspects of socio-economic, political and cultural history of early India.