Senior Journalist Subhash Harchekar “IPL’s Messenger of fragrance”
Senior Journalist Subhash Harchekar “IPL’s Messenger of fragrance”
But obvious, Journalists are meant to share news, but amidst IPL 2025, RK Nayar a senior journalist met a fellow senior journalist who spreads fragrance in the press box at the Wankhede Stadium
As soon as he sat down to report on the Mumbai Indians versus Sunrisers Hyderabad match at the Wankhede stadium on Thursday, April 17, 2025, an elderly gentleman walked up to him with a yellow flower.
It had such a lovely aroma that Nayar kept sniffing at it repeatedly.
What astonished him was that he was walking around, offering flowers to every journalist in the press box!
While he was making his way from one desk to another, Nayar asked the journalist why he was doing this.
He said that he does this amidst every IPL match at Wankhede as well as all international matches he reports on.
On enquiring, age it was learned he was Subhash Harchekar a Journalistl,
79 years old and reports for the Marathi newspaper Navarashtra.
Subhash’s flowers find a place on the laptops of journalists.
Nayar said he has read about interesting or strange habits of many famous authors.
These writers cultivated habits for themselves, but Subhash Harchekar has cultivated a habit meant for others.
K R Nayar clicked a selfie with Subhash amidst the IPL game.
Offering him a flower petal from his bag, he explained, “Every morning, he (Subhash) performs pooja with flowers, visits the Shree Siddhivinayak temple and offer flowers. One day, he was coming to report an evening match.
According to Subhash, Since the flower shops would be closed by the time the match ended bought some flowers on way, and carried them to the press box.
“When he opened his bag, a few journalists remarked that they were enjoying the fragrance from the flowers.
When he offered a few flowers to those sitting close by, they were very happy that they took them home.
“From that day onwards, he decided to distribute flowers to everyone in the press box so that everyone would feel happy.
It’s not just journalists that he offers flowers — he also shares them with the scorers, who prominently place these flowers next to their score sheets and computers.
Subhash has been in the profession for decades, and since there are many journalists named Subhash, fondly known as ‘the man with the flowers’.
Right now he is a bloom among reporters and is IPL’s messenger of fragrance.
What Subhash does is make friends through flowers, spreading the fragrance of love and affection.
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News Edit KV Raman
