Framed on the wall of his office in Fifth Avenue, New York, hangs a newspaper page dated January 30, 1948. The headline reads: Gandhi assassinated "" soul of India shot down by fanatic. The byline says James W Michaels, United Press staff correspondent.
Michaels was a young cub reporter then, covering the independence and post-independence tribulations of India. Since then, he has made it a point to keep in touch with India's political scenario. And today, at 75, this editor of Forbes magazine is back in the country on a special mission "" to report to American business on investment opportunities here.
Michaels read economics in Harvard College and served in Burma during the Second World War. He has been a journalist for more than 50 years, of which 36 years have been spent as the editor of Forbes.
It is significant that he visits this country on its 50th year of independence. Having covered the birth of the new Indian republic, he will now be walking down memory lane as the country celebrates its tumultuous and eventful past and looks ahead.
