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Babu Rajendra Prasad Bhaskar was born in 1933 in Kayikkara near Thiruvanthapuram. His father A.K.Bhaskar  was a social activist and journalist. Mother is late Meenakshi.

BRP as he is called, learned the tricks of the trade of journalism at an young age, from his father, who was the publisher of “Navabharatham”, which was media rich in talent. BRP could have easily become a doctor or engineer but opted for journalism, joining The Hindu in 1952 at the very young age of 19.

He remained there till 1958. Then went on moving to different media organizations in different streams - Statesman(1959-63) Patriot(1963-66), UNI (1966-84) and Deccan Herald(1984-91), Asianet TV (1994-99).

Rajendra prasad born

Since then he is active as social worker and as a writer.

It was in 1958 that he was selected for a scholarship program of the government of India to undergo training in journalism in Philippines. Working in several media institutions of different stream-print, visual and wire- gave him rich exper