Srinagar, March 25 -- Everyone in the media fraternity in Delhi called him Zafar Bhai. In a cutthroat competitive media landscape in Delhi I did not come across a single person, in over two decades of my career in media, who did not like or respect Zafar Agha.

As a journalist he was always a voice of powerless . Well that's how a journalist should be. I personally believe, if a journalist has to be biased, the bias should be in the favour of the people and not the power. Zafar Agha epitomized that. He favoured all the reforms that were for the underdogs of the society, be that Mandal Commission implementation, prior to and during the V P Singh's government, or theMuslim community's empowerment through education, skills, adjustment, negot...