SOMEDAY someone will write the history of the post-Independence Indian newspaper editor. Those doughty warriors of 'the daily truth' whose thundering prose once sent morning cuppas coursing through the veins like adrenalin. He or she will write of the days of the freedom struggle when journalist and political worker were almost a single entity, united in the battle to expel the imperialist. There will be a chapter on the Fifties and Sixties—'the age of governance' when Nehruvian temples to modernity were acclaimed or critiqued in editorial columns emanating from bustling Indian fleet streets. The Emergency of the Seventies which divided the opportunists from the idealists will surely figure as an important section. And then the study will find its way to the Nineties, where the long shadow of the hyper-market and the satellite footprint will have fallen over Old Lady Newspaper. Today, as new media 'brands' roll off the printing presses, the fate of the editor-in-chief must make Tyrannosaurus Rex sigh in sympathy.