Srinagar, Jan. 19 -- As a fearless editor of the popular Urdu daily of yesteryears, Ghulam Nabi Shaida breathed his last on Tuesday morning after battling an unsound health for a long time. Breaking the news of his demise, veteran Kashmiri journalist Yusuf Jameel termed the falling legend of 'Wadi Ki Awaz' as "an upright professional".

By Mir Faizan

BACK in the day when Kashmir was witnessing a tumultuous political campaign, Minister of State (MoS) Information, Bashir Ahmad Nengroo once sought a pressing audience of Kashmiri journalists for some quick briefing.

When the word reached an unbending editor-whose rise from Pulwama's obscure political circles to a popular penman position in Srinagar's Press Colony made him a cult-he famously...