 Hence at age 80, when he retired from the Press Institute of India, he went on to join the Centre for Media Studies (CMS) in New Delhi as the editor of its journal, "Transparency Review", which focusses on the issue of the right to information.A Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla for three years, he was also a founder member of Editors' Guild of India.Through his career, he wrote and edited numerous books, like "Dateline Bangladesh", "Kashmir