Meet Kumar Sauvir, the journalist who stood up for Siddique https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2023/02/02/meet-kumar-sauvir-the-journalist-who-stood-up-for-siddique-kappan.html KappanSauvir is a Lucknow-based journalist who furnished the bail bond for Kappan’s releasevi By Puja Awasthi February 02, 2023 Sauvir has been a journalist for 42 years. His father, Siyaram Tripathi, worked in a senior editorial position at a prominent Hindi newspaper. “He would always talk about justice, and wallop me to teach me its lessons”, he said. Tripathi was a card holding member of the Communist Party of India, the secretary of the Indian Federation of Working Journalists and the general secretary of its state wing. Sauvir’s paternal grandfather had strong communist leanings. “I was fed fearlessness since I was a child”, said Sauvir.