BBC’s first Hindi news reader Rajni Kaul passes away
Rajni Kaul first woman to read a news bulletin in Hindi on BBC passed away in Faridabad on Tuesday. She was 93years old. She was cremated on Wednesday.
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Kaul was born in Peshawar, now in Pakistan. She worked with All India Radio (AIR) in New Delhi before joining the Voice of America (VOA) in Washington and then BBC . She was the first woman to join BBC Hindi as a staffer and first woman to read a news bulletin in Hind in 1961.
She married famous broadcast journalist late Mahendra Kaul who also worked with the VOA and the BBC and they settled in London.
