
If you missed this, then you felt as if you had missed the entire news of the week. Prannoy Roy became a superstar overnight.

Nobody thought news could be so slick and sexy. When this was first aired, we were all blown away. The World This Week: The ultimate news capsule It was a glorious peek into the culture of every state and national integration at it best. I never missed the weekly regional movie too. Blockbuster or flop, millions would sit glued to it week after week right till the very end. No matter what they showed, you still looked forward to it. The high point of every week was the Sunday Hindi movie. Here’s looking at 10 of my favourite programmes in no particular order… DD probably peaked in the eighties and after that satellite TV took over. For us, Doordarshan (or DD) was Santa Claus who had at least one gift for every person in the family. Strange but true: This government owned unprofessionally run non-24-hour TV channel was all we ever wanted. He also has a long instinct working with Doordarshan and the NDTV.There was a time when Indian TV had only Doordarshan. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and was the first electronic media journalist to win it. The ace journalist who is also felicitated with Padma Shri by the Government of India (GoI) in the year 2008 is often referred to as a pioneer in broadcast Hindi journalism. His health has been continuously deteriorating since the unfortunate demise of his wife, Padmavati ‘Chinna’ Dua, in June after she succumb to the Covid. He is immensely loved and revered and I request you all to pray that he experiences as little pain as possible.”Īs per the reports, Vinod Dua is admitted to a hospital in Gurugram, Haryana. He has lived an extraordinary life and given us the same. He also is unable to come to terms with losing the light of his life. His health had been deteriorating rapidly since April. Taking to her Instagram handle, Mallika Dua uploaded a story and wrote “My Papaji is beyond critical in the ICU. Now again, the veteran journalist is in ICU and his condition is ‘Beyond Stable’ as per his daughter, Mallika Dua.

Earlier this year, during the times of Covid, Dua was hospitalized and was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). This is the second time that the 67-year-old ace journalist Vinod Dua is admitted to the hospital.


As per her daughter and famous standup comedian Mallika Dua, Vinod Dua is ‘beyond critical’ and is admitted to ICU. Ace Journalist Vinod Dua is again in the hospital.
