Shikhar Misra

Editor|Music connoisseur|Part time model|Amateur Farmer|Vinyl collector

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Bravo @ThePeeyushDubey !

Keep Rising…

You’ve made us all proud.

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@makemytripcare @makemytrip You have been saying this for last two months. How can you guys be so blatantly shameless ?!

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@makemytrip @makemytripcare after holding my money for two month and promising to reimburse my money over a lac after that , you still haven’t . #disgrace #cheaters

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@aPantClicks Aaja wapis :)

[Adwita Pant @aPantClicks]

For some people, work is mostly about turning simple things into complex problems and then solving them.

[Nirnay Kapoor @nirnaykapoor]

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The Banyan and the Beacon: GMC Grieves the Passing of RKM

In the quiet hour past midnight-when the presses once thundered and the city surrendered to sleep- the three letters that had reverberated through six decades of journalism in Gujarat fell still. RKM.

R. K. Misra, who delighted in reducing himself to those initials, and who wore them as lightly as a signature breeze- on conversations, even in his email address- kept faith with the rhythm he so often described. “When the world retreats to its homes in the evening,” he once said, “a journalist begins his day.” It was past midnight, that sacred hour of deadlines and discernment, when he began his final journey- 18 days after his 76th birthday, born as he was on February 5, living entirely by a journalist’s circadian clock until its last tick.

As President of the Gujarat Media Club (GMC), I write not merely to mourn a founder, but to reckon with a force of moral weather- an atmosphere that made journalism in Gujarat breathable, bracing, and braver.

For six decades, RKM’s presence in newsrooms across the state was less a figure and more a frequency. He belonged to a generation that believed journalism was not a profession but a public trust. His career, which included a distinguished association with The Times of India, was never defined by designation. He was defined instead by mentorship - the quiet, stubborn insistence that the rookie reporter filing a clumsy first copy deserved the same seriousness as the seasoned editor crafting a front-page lead.

He did not simply produce journalists; he midwifed their consciences.

There are individuals who accumulate influence. And then there are those rare ones who institutionalize it who convert personal conviction into collective scaffolding. RKM belonged to the latter. He believed that integrity was not self-sustaining; it required community. It required welfare. It required structures that held journalists upright in moments of vulnerability, illness, and financial distress.

He seeded and supported several journalistic bodies in Gujarat over the years-many attempts met with the friction of circumstance and the fatigue of bureaucracy. He would often speak of institutional and welfare support as the missing pillar of our fraternity. It was an unfinished sentence in his life’s work.

Until 2006.

That year, inspired by his relentless clarity and moral impatience, a group of young media professionals came together to establish the Gujarat Media Club. RKM did not merely found GMC as Its first President; he imbued it with an ethos. The club was envisioned not as a social enclave but as a banyan tree- its shade inclusive, its roots interwoven with every beat reporter, desk editor, cameraperson, and columnist who called Gujarat home.

It is an irony both tender and triumphant that as GMC approaches two decades of its existence, RKM departs from the mortal newsroom. Twenty years-an institutional adolescence turning into maturity-arriving at the precise moment when the founder becomes memory.

If memory were all he left us, we would be poorer. But RKM leaves architecture.

GMC established a welfare fund of one crore rupees, inaugurated by the Honourable Chief Minister Shri Bhupendrabhai Patel. Before this initiative was formally unveiled to the wider media community, the news was conveyed to RKM. His response was not celebratory. It was serene. An idea he had articulated for years had found institutional form. The seed had not only germinated; it had taken root.

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[Uday Mahurkar @UdayMahurkar]

‘ A lionhearted man’. If that term could be applied to 1 person it was veteran journalist RK Mishra. I was stunned today when my dear friend @brajeshksingh informed me that Mishraji had passed away in Ahmedabad. Always eager to help
needy journalist, Mishraji saw the journalistic fraternity as one large family.

He played a key role in setting up the Gujarat Media Club of which i was the president once. He was so committed to GMC that he took on any one acting against the Club’s interest.

Today the club has a corpus of over Rs 4 crores & has helped many needy journalists in their hard times.

Mishra ji was suffering from prostrate cancer for 2 years. Pay my tributes to him with a very heavy heart.

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@AdityaRajKaul Why do you care so personally ? Aren’t you a journalist first?

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@IrfanPathan Bro your top 11 has only 3 bowlers and hardik if he bowls all 4. Who is the 5th bowler or is it T16?

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@Niva_Bupa @policybazaar what are you guys doing ? It’s your job to be dealing with @Niva_Bupa not mine

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@Niva_Bupa please get your customer support sorted. Worst service ever. My reimbursement claims are stuck for over 2 months without any clarity. Full harassment . You guys have no idea about the documents . Get this sorted asap #insurance #mediclaim #healthcare

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@Niva_Bupa Have not received any email . No one from medical team has called up yet. What is happening ? Why can’t you guys just assign an individual who looks in to the matter ? How difficult is it? #pathetic

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@Niva_Bupa Please get your team to sort out my reimbursement. It’s way past the time frame you guys had promised . #shame

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@pradymahajani @MalhotraSaurabh @cricBC Still the weakest?

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@pradymahajani @MalhotraSaurabh @cricBC Still hardly any chances as opposed to KL . No ? 😂

[CinemaRare @CinemaRareIN]

. @_PVRCinemas & @FHF_Official celebrates 45 years of Vinod Chopra Films!

13th - 19th Oct in select PVR - Inox cinemas.

Sazaye Maut
Khamosh
Parinda
1942: A Love Story
Mission Kashmir
Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
Parineeta
Lage Raho Munnabhai
Eklavya
3 Idiots

[Vidhu Vinod Chopra Films @VVCFilms]

As Vinod Chopra Films completes 45 years of storytelling in cinema, we bring back the magic to the big screens!

From the 13th to the 19th of October iconic hits like 3 Idiots and Parinda will hit the theatres again. Some cult classics like Sazaye Maut and Khamosh will be screened for the first time ever!

@_PVRCinemas @INOXMovies #FilmHeritageFoundation

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@suril_js @GabbbarSingh @agNishchay @suril_js ghee podi idli is mind blowing .. try karna authentic jagah se . Also mini idlis in ghee . Out of the world

[Shikhar Misra @misrashikhar]

@krishdk Sir … Wadala, Lower parel or the malad one ? Which has the best screen?