Sanjiv Sinha, a special correspondent with The Indian Express, was one of the four journalists who died in the plane crash that killed Madhavrao Scindia this afternoon (30th. September 2001).

His friends remember him as "a pillar of strength and an epitome of composure, an anchor that would not shake in any tempest". He was always smiling, always ready with a joke to liven the atmosphere. No one ever saw him depressed, not even when he was going through difficult emotional periods in his life.

Sanjiv is survived by his father, a retired Colonel in the Army, his mother and a brother who is First Secretary in the Indian embassy at Kiev, Ukraine.

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