WHILE his contemporaries were pondering a future in teaching, law or medicine in the late 1960s, a young Clairwood man, Mariah Vengtas Bisetty, was writing his destiny.
He had his sights firmly set on journalism, a field which only a couple of Indians had successfully penetrated just a few years earlier with groundbreaking jobs.
Bisetty, who died last week (April 18) aged 75, had worked for The Mercury, POST’s sister newspaper, for 52 years, including after retiring in 2014.
As a reporter, night news editor, and later, copy taster and sub-editor, he brought readers more than half a century of news.
Having served under 10 different editors, Bisetty is also credited with mentoring generations of young reporters, some of whom have gone on to leadership roles.
He started at the…
