Arnab Goswami stirs audience at the seventh edition of BMPA's Print Summit

Conceived around the 'change is for the better' theme, Print Summit 2013 platformed print delegates exchanging views and ideas to keep abreast with modernisation and technological advancements in the printing industry.

The keynote for Print Summit was delivered by Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief and news anchor of the channel Times Now in his inimitable style.

Arnab Goswami complimented the organisers for selecting the theme of "change" and zeroed in on the motto on the stage which said: Change before if you have to.

He spoke of how a day in July 2007 re-defined his approach to journalism. He felt Indian journalism had an old-school, elite club approach. He called this the Gazzetteer-type baba lok journalism which has been instrumental in besmirching the reputation of Indian journalism.

Goswami explained how Sanjay Dutt's arrest became part of a media tamasha. He spoke of a colonel in the Indian Army, Colonel Vasanth Venugopal. He said, Col Vasanth V, was the commanding officer of the 9 Maratha Light Infantry, a unit of the Indian Army. On 31 July 2007, he was killed in action while preventing heavily armed infiltrators from crossing the Indian border at Uri, Jammu and Kashmir.

But this act of valour was ignored by the Indian media in their pursuit of Sanjay Dutt's arrest. Goswami mentioned how the Colonel's widow came to the Times Now studio and recounted her late husband's saga.

This taught Goswami the art of calling a spade a spade. He felt a distance from establishment is necessary; and how journalists should not co-habit with the establishment.