Frank Moraes Biography 
Frank Moraes was a noted journalist and the first Indian editor of The Times of India – India’s leading English daily. His full name is Francis Robert "Frank" Moraes and he was of Goan descent. Noted Indian poet and writer Dom Moraes is his son. ‘India Today, The Revolt in Tibet’, ‘Report on Mao's China, Yonder one world: a study of Asia and the West’, ‘The importance of being black: an Asian looks at Africa’ and Behind the Bamboo Curtain are the major books authored by him. He has also co-authored a few books. Moraes retired from The Indian Express in 1972. Then he moved to London, where he died two years later.
His father was a civil engineer from Goa. Frank studied History at St Xavier's College and later moved to the University of Oxford where he read history. He was also active in students’ politics. He also completed Law in England and returned back to India in 1934, after spending 7 long years in London. He practised as a barrister in India for a couple of years before he started his career as a full-time journalist. In 1936 he joined The Times of India as a journalist and got promoted to junior assistant editor in 1938. He also worked as a correspondent in Burma and China during World War second.
After a brief stay in Sri Lanka as a newspaper editor he returned back to India in 1949 as the editor of The National Standard. The newspaper later came to be known as The Indian Express. The following year he became the first Indian editor of The Times of India.
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Updated: June 19, 2014
