Enthusiastic, on duty, suddenly gone

new delhi: a car remained parked at the scindia residence on sunday evening. its owner, journalist sanjiv sinha from the indian express was not coming back. sinha had reached congress leader madhavrao scindia's residence on sunday morning in his own car, while hindustan times' anju sharma had been dropped at the airport by her brother rajnish sharma, also anht journalist. from there they had accompanied the leader to indira gandhi international airport in another car. sinha had planned to pick up his car on his return from kanpur. also accompanying scindia on the ill-fated flight was ranjan jha, a correspondent of aaj tak. jha's colleague, cameraman gopal bisht, also died in the crash. thirty-four-year-old sinha, a special correspondent with the indian express, completed his masters in history from st stephen's college. a resident of dehradun, sinha had completed his schooling from sherwood school, nainital, and started to teach at doon school. he began his career in journalism as a columnist with the pioneer. he later joined the indian express in 1993 as a crime reporter and graduated to cover the congress and national politics. hindustan times special correspondent anju sharma was one of the youngest correspondents in the newspaper's bureau. anju, who turned 32 on september 14, was terrified of flying. a few days ago, after a story appeared on union sports minister uma bharti's fear of flying, anju told her colleagues that she preferred to travel by road or rail. she began her career on the hindustan times desk in 1990 from where she was transferred to the sunday bureau and later to reporting. her abilities and professional commitment helped her to rise from staff reporter to a special correspondent in just five years. a senior political correspondent with tv today, ranjan jha started his career as a print journalist with dainik hindustan in bhagalpur. after working there for two years, 39-year-old jha moved to delhi and joined the dainik jagran. in 1995 he joined tv today and started covering delhi-centric events for their daily news programme. a keen observer of politics, jha later moved to the congress beat. jha is survived by his wife and two daughters. tv today's senior cameraman gopal bisht had worked with the company for the past 10 years. fifty-year-old bisht was one of the oldest staff members when the company ventured into electronic media. bisht is survived his wife, two sons and a daughter.