Some people never hang up their boots and some, like Kuldip Nayar, never put down their pens. The veteran journalist died on Thursday at age 95, working till the end — his last column appearing in the Lokmat Times in the morning, hours after he breathed his last around 12.30 am in a Delhi hospital.

The prolific journalist, columnist and author, known not just as one of India's most respected media persons but also as a passionate advocate for peace and Press freedom, discussed the immigrants as vote banks in his last article, focussing on the northeast. He ended with advice to the BJP to not ignore the problems of the region, pointing out that Assam has 14 of 25 seats in the northeast.