Senior editorial staff members of The Hindu on Tuesday had a meeting to condole the death of Easwar Sagar, who was the newspaper’s longest-serving Washington Correspondent, for 17 years. He died in Centreville, Virginia last month, at the age of 95.
Sagar joined the newspaper in September 1950 after a stint in the Navy. He was posted as a Reporter in Calcutta in 1960, and sent to Washington in April 1961, to succeed K. Balaraman. In 1978, Sagar came back to Madras to be Deputy Editor and Leader Writer, and retired from service in 1983.
He lived for a time in Coimbatore, but later moved to the U.S. He is survived by his wife, Janaki, and two sons.
“Sagar was one of the finest journalists in the old mould, uncompromising in what he felt was the truth, fearless but always fair,” said N. Ravi, former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu , who had succeeded Sagar as Washington Correspondent.
