1. Amita Malik began her career at All India Radio in 1944 and later worked as a columnist for many Indian newspapers, including The Statesman, The Times of India, the Indian Express and Pioneer.
10 Facts About Amita Malik
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Amita Malik died of leukemia at the age of 87 at Kailas Hospital on 20 February 2009.
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Amita Malik presented the weekly lunch hour programme of European music on Saturdays.
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Amita Malik was the first reporter to interview Indira Gandhi when she unexpectedly became Prime Minister of India after Lal Bahadur Shastri's death in Tashkent.
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In 1960, Amita Malik launched a campaign against foreigners in saris.
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Amita Malik was responsible for getting the censorship curbs on foreign media during the Indian Emergency lifted.
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Khushwant Singh said that Amita Malik had once written he was the worst dressed man she had ever known.
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Amita Malik confessed it was the only time he genuinely agreed with her.
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Amita Malik's syndicated column "Sight and Sound" has been published in virtually every leading Indian newspaper at various times.
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Amita Malik's column was read by generations of television news readers for Amita's biting sartorial observations on them.