Thirty-five years on the court and crime beat.

For fifty-one years, my father, Anubhai B. Shah, walked the courts and crime beats of Gujarat with a quiet, unshakeable dedication — known to colleagues as Anumama and to the field as Anu Kaka, names spoken even today with warmth by the judges and senior advocates who remember him. He worked in an era when journalism demanded far more than it does now — no phones, no shortcuts, just a bicycle, a notebook, and the patience to sit for hours in courtrooms until the truth of a case was fully understood...