A pioneering editor who’s in it for love
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BIVASH Mukherjee was a member of the first team of copy editors at Shanghai Daily, when the city’s first official English-language newspaper was launched in 1999.
As a newsroom editor, he works on local stories, and edits copy for the national, international, business and sports news sections. He worked on the paper’s coverage of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai and reported on the APEC Summit.
As head of the sports desk, Mukherjee has covered four Olympic Games for Shanghai Daily, and also reported on the Shanghai Tennis Masters, F1 Grand Prix and the HSBC Golf Championship.
Drawn by China’s rich culture and history, he spent more than two years of his own time researching, developing and producing a short documentary film about Indian poet Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s visits to the country in the 1920s. Completed in 2009, “Gurudev: A Journey to the East” was screened in China at the Shanghai Writers Association, the Indian Embassy in Beijing and the Hong Kong Arts Center.
It was also shown at the ORF Foundation in Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore as well as in the US and Singapore.
After the film was completed, it was featured in an ICS TV production titled “In Search of Tagore.”
And after the publication of an article in Shanghai Daily, the Indian consulate, with support from authorities in former Luwan District, erected a bust of Gurudev at the intersection of Maoming and Nanchang roads.
Such is Mukherjee’s love of China that he named his elder daughter Chinmoyee — Chin as in China and “moyee,” which means affection in Hindi. Both Chinmoyee and her younger sister were born in Shanghai.
As well as his film work, Mukherjee co-edited a book on Formula One in China, and edited both an English-language version of “A Boat to Heaven” by noted Shanghai poet and writer Zhao Lihong, and “Shanghai Hudec Architecture,” a bilingual guide to Laszlo Hudec’s iconic works in Shanghai.
Before joining Shanghai Daily, Mukherjee spent more than 20 years working in newsrooms in India, Thailand and Russia.
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