New Delhi: Veteran journalist Sat Soni passed away at a private hospital in Gurugram, his family said on Friday. . He was 89.
Born in Mandalay in Myanmar, Soni had moved to Punjab in 1944 in the wake of the Japanese invasion during the Second World War.
He was educated in Jalandhar, where he learnt Urdu and Hindi for the first time, a family member said.
"Sat Soni, one of the most senior Hindi journalists of the nation, breathed his last on Thursday at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram," the family said in a statement.
He began his career in 1951 with the Urdu daily, "Milap".
He later joined Bennett Coleman and Co. and was with "Navbharat Times" till 1979. Then Soni was selected to launch "Sandhya Times", which soon became the largest-selling Hindi evening newspaper of India.
He authored many books, including the biography of former President Giani Zail Singh -- "From Mudhouse to Rashtrapati Bhawan".
Soni is survived by his wife, son, daughter-in-law and two grandsons.
