Hyderabad, March 15 -- By Dinesh C Sharma

Hyderabad: The passing away of veteran news editor Raghavendra Rao Harnoor (1938- 2025) in Hyderabad this week has left a void in the world of journalism and news editing. Harnoor Saab - as he was popularly known in the fraternity - mentored several generations of journalists in Vijayawada and Hyderabad where he spent most of his journalism career spanning almost half a century. His personality can be described in two phrases - a quintessential Hyderabadi and a grammar Nazi.

I came in touch with him in the early 1980s when I started freelancing as a journalism student at Osmania University. He loved mentoring young journalists, chatting with them when they came to submit stories or just dropped ...