Thayil Jacob Sony George, the famed journalist who became famous simply as TJS, has passed away at the age of 97 in Bengaluru on Friday.

TJS began his career in 1950 at The Free Press Journal in India's Maximum City known then as Bombay.

He went on to work with The Searchlight , the International Press Institute and the Far Eastern Economic Review before becoming the founding editor of Asiaweek, published from Hong Kong.

At Searchlight , TJS became the first Indian editor to be charged with sedition in India. When he was arrested for his columns against then Bihar Chief Minister KB Sahay, the Defence Minister of India at that time, VK Krishna Menon, rushed down to Patna to defend him.

TJS did not take a backward step during the rest of his career too, never flinching from speak

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