For most present in the Hall that evening, this Keynote address was a breath of fresh air. We are in an age where public speakers indulge in pure rhetoric without any focus on substance, but Sainath has the rare ability of finding the perfect balance between oratory and content. He inspired many students that evening to pursue journalism as a career. In the words of Vanessa Vaz, a First Year student, “His passion is contagious. One is provoked to ‘push their boundaries’”.Prakriti Bhatt, another attendee was quite astonished after hearing from an insider about the dirty underbelly of the media. “It’s shattering how the Fourth Estate of our democracy can be so hollow and deceptive. The importance of reading between the lines and not relying on a single news source is something that I have realised today”. Despite all the ominous predictions Sainath had for the media, another student, Kartikeya Agarwal said, “I left with one idea that he stressed on: ‘news may be a commodity, but journalism is a calling’.”