Rustom Khurshedji Karanjia was an Indian journalist and editor.
15 Facts About Russi Karanjia
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Russi Karanjia founded the Blitz, a weekly tabloid with focus on investigative journalism in 1941, and ran it for the next four decades.
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Russi Karanjia founded The Daily, a daily tabloid which was run by his daughter.
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Russi Karanjia was born to a Parsi family in Quetta, now in Balochistan in the Northern part of Pakistan.
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Russi Karanjia began writing while still in college, and during the 1930s Russi Karanjia was employed an assistant editor at The Times of India.
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Russi Karanjia left The Times of India in 1941 to launch Blitz, a weekly tabloid with a focus on investigative journalism.
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Russi Karanjia served as a war correspondent during the Japanese Burma offensive in World War II, reporting on the action in Burma and Assam.
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Blitz folded during the mid-1990s and Russi Karanjia retired from public life.
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Russi Karanjia died at his home, a seafront flat along Marine Drive, in Mumbai at the age of 95 on 1 February 2008.
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Russi Karanjia was survived by one daughter, Rita Mehta, the founder and first Editor-in-chief of Cine Blitz magazine.
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Russi Karanjia's brother, Burjor, was a journalist, albeit in the film industry, editor of Filmfare.
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Russi Karanjia was the founder and the owner-editor of Blitz, a weekly tabloid published out of Mumbai.
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Russi Karanjia remained a staunch critic of the Congress party while continuing to remain friendly with Congress leaders Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
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However, Russi Karanjia later became disillusioned with communism and its anti-Hindu secularism.
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Russi Karanjia became a strong sympathiser of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Ayodhya movement.