An Editor Like None Other

March 22, 2019 14:13

"Do you know how to type?" Darryl D'Monte asked after he had quizzed me about my knowledge of the world.

Filled with the persistent-as-acne arrogance of one's early twenties, I declared, "As Auden said, 'Men like the sight of their own handwriting as much as they enjoy the smell of their own farts'.

"In a look that I came to know so well and love, Darryl's mouth curled in a wry half smile, he blinked, as he asked again, "But can you type?"

Darryl D'Monte mentored more journalists than any other editor of his generation.

Some of the biggest bylines owe their beginnings in our glorious profession to this wonderful human being.

Nikhil Lakshman salutes his mentor.

Read the piece here.

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