Undoubtedly, it could be granted, Kuldip Nayar is India’s most well-known journalist, and also a widely syndicated columnist. Just as the Beyond The Lines dust-jacket claims. Equally undoubtedly, KN can be credited with two innovations. He was perhaps the first to experiment with a practice that later came to be known as “embedded journalism”. He earned his professional spurs as the government’s designated media-minder. As a PIB man, he was attached first to Govind Ballabh Pant and later to Lal Bahadur Shastri.