Tearful Farewell to Sabina Sehgal Saikia

We did not know her personally. We read her reports as a food critic and enjoyed every piece of it. Her writings showed the person behind. And weeks after weeks we waited for her writings.

I was shocked to hear the tragic news of her death.

Here is some informatioon from the news media for those who want to know about her.

NEW DELHI: Scores of teary eyed friends, colleagues, celebrities and even people who didn't know her personally turned up to bid farewell to Sabina Sehgal Saikia, a well-known scribe and food critic who perished in the Mumbai terror strike and was cremated here on Sunday.
The body of Sabina, a consulting editor with the Times of India, was consigned to the flames at Lodhi Road cremation grounds.
For many, it tragically ended the uncertainty that had prevailed in the media about her death ever since it came to be known that she was among those trapped at the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel when terrorists struck there on Wednesday night.
That she was as popular with the rich and famous as among lay readers was evident from the numbers that turned up to pay their last respects. Beauty expert Shahnaz Husain, actor Nandita Das, politician-industrialist Naveen Jindal, journalists Dilip Padgaonkar, Vikram Chandra, Vinod Nair were all present.

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Sabina Sehgal Saikia has been with The Times of India for the past 17 years. She has worked for the newspaper in various capacities and departments. She was part of the launch team of both Saturday Times and The Sunday Times of India. As a special correspondent with the Political News Bureau, she covered very sensitive areas such as CBI, The Northeast, Enforcement Directorate and Intelligence Bureau. Subsequently she took over as the Editor of Delhi Times and has given it a youthful orientation. For the past eight years, she has been reviewing restaurants and their delicacies for The Times of India. Her immensely popular weekly column - Main Course - which appears in Delhi Times, has accurately charted the chequered business of eating out in the capital. The hallmark of her critiques has been the objectivity, integrity and honesty with which she evaluates a restaurant. She visits the restaurant anonymously, picks up the tab at the end of the meal and writes, without hesitation, about the entire dining experience. She is the author of The Times Good Eating Guide, a comprehensive evaluation of 600 restaurants in the city.She is an alumnus of Lady Sriram College and the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. Sabina Sehgal Saikia has made her mark in whatever she has taken up as a journalist.

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