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Russi Karanjia was born on 15 September, 1912 in India, is an Indian Journalist. Discover Russi Karanjia's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?

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Age 95 years old
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Born 15 September 1912
Birthday 15 September
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Date of death 1 February, 2008
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1912

Rustom Khurshedji Karanjia (15 September 1912 – 1 February 2008) was an Indian journalist and editor.

He typically signed his reports as "R. K. Karanjia".

1930

Karanjia began writing while still in college, and during the 1930s Karanjia was employed an assistant editor at The Times of India.

1941

He founded the Blitz, a weekly tabloid with focus on investigative journalism in 1941, and ran it for the next four decades.

He also founded The Daily, a daily tabloid which was run by his daughter.

Karanjia was born to a Parsi family in Quetta, now in Balochistan in the Northern part of Pakistan.

He left The Times of India in 1941 to launch Blitz (newspaper), a weekly tabloid with a focus on investigative journalism.

It was one of the few Indian newspapers to have carried out interviews with the high and mighty, including the likes of Fidel Castro and Zhou Enlai.

The Daily and The Blitz were also incubators for the likes of R.K. Laxman, P. Sainath and Teesta Setalvad, all of whom started their journalistic careers there.

Karanjia served as a war correspondent during the Japanese Burma offensive in World War II, reporting on the action in Burma and Assam.

The first issue of Blitz was published on 1 February 1941 (the same day that Karanjia died in 2008).

Kulkarni calls his journalism "irreverent, investigative, courageous and a little titillating".

Filmmaker Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Magsaysay-award-winning journalist P. Sainath were associated with Blitz.

Blitz was radical and idealist, left-leaning, and pro-Soviet.

Karanjia remained a staunch critic of the Congress party while continuing to remain friendly with Congress leaders Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.

However, Karanjia later became disillusioned with communism and its anti-Hindu secularism.

He became a strong sympathiser of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Ayodhya movement.

1976

Initially a fierce critic of the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba, Karanjia later became his devotee in 1976.

According to Kulkarni, P. Sainath was replaced as the magazine's deputy editor by Karanjia, who appointed Kulkarni to the post instead of him.

1990

Blitz folded during the mid-1990s and Karanjia retired from public life.

2008

Karanjia died at his home, a seafront flat along Marine Drive, in Mumbai at the age of 95 on 1 February 2008.

In a "departure from Parsi tradition, as per his wishes," his funeral was held in Chandanvadi crematorium, in south Mumbai.

Karanjia was survived by one daughter, Rita Mehta, the founder and first Editor-in-chief of Cine Blitz magazine.

His brother, Burjor, was also a journalist, albeit in the film industry, editor of Filmfare.

Karanjia was the founder and the owner-editor of Blitz, a weekly tabloid published out of Mumbai.

The columnist Sudheendra Kulkarni wrote about how the decision to launch Blitz was taken over a cup of tea between three patriotic journalists, ie, BV Nadkarni, Benjamin Horniman, and Karanjia, at the Wayside Inn, a restaurant near Kala Ghoda, Mumbai.